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Nickname for slavery given because people agreed that slavery was morally wrong, BUT could not begin to imagine how to get rid of it or replace it with something different.

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Anti-immigrant (also known as nativist) political movement of the 1840s and 1850s

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Created because of the crisis over California wanting to enter the Union as a free state. Three key parts: 1. CA comes in as a free state; 2. Utah and New Mexico territories given popular sovereignty; 3. Stronger Fugitive Slave Law passed; 4. Slave trade outlawed in Washington, D.C

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Law passed in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850; stated that if a slave escapes into a free state, the owner of the slave could go across state line to claim that slave if they had a legal document proving that the slave was theirs.

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Compromise passed in 1854 which allowed Nebraska and Kansas to become states, and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

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First major battle of the war fought just outside Washington D.C. It was a Confederate victory, and both sides realized that they needed to prepare for a long, difficult war.

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Took place in September 1862 in Maryland. This battle was a Union victory, but is known as the single bloodiest day of the war.

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Three-day battle that took place in July 1863 in Pennsylvania as Robert E. Lee tried to lead a risky assault on Northern territory. The Confederate attempt to break the Union lines failed, and the Union won the battle. A major turning point of the war!

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In the winter of 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman led his troops on this trek across Georgia, and used the tactic of "total war" to demoralize the American South during his "march to the sea."

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General-in-Chief of the Confederate Army throughout the Civil War

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Man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in April of 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

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Elected President in 1876 after a much-fought-over vote recount. He withdrew Federal troops from the South a part of the Compromise of 1877 to keep Democrats happy and support the recount making him Prez.

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Gave full citizenship to African-Americans and provided them with equal protection under the law.

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Man who became president in 1865 after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth - member of the Democratic Party

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Southern laws passed after the end of Reconstruction that separated/segregated blacks and whites