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Resulted in the deaths of fifty-one southern whites. Pushed the need for the emancipation of slaves.
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A weekly newspaper of abolitionist ideals.
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Demanded an immediate end to slavery.
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Demanded equal rights and attacked Catharine Beecher's belief that women were subordinate to men.
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Encouraged slaves to rebel.
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Demanded equal social status and legal rights for women.
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Sparked the desire to return to slave-holding states and free her people.
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Strengthened Fugitive Slave Laws in the south and admitted California as a free state.
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Provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to free states.
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Rebuked anti-feminist arguments.
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Helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.
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Violent civil confrontations over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
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Allowed the people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not to admit slavery.
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New party that opposed the expansion of slavery.
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Stated that African Americans were not citizens and could not file a suit against the United States court.
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Contained clauses protecting slavery and a bill of rights excluding blacks.
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Caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy.
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1858 debate between Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglass and Republican adversary Abraham Lincoln over slavery extension.
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Aimed to start a slave revolt/destroy the institution of slavery.
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Split over the issues of slavery and the 1860 election.
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Resulted in response to free states rejecting the Fugitive Slave Acts.
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Led to the Civil War.
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Led by Jefferson Davis, they seceded in response to the presidential election of Lincoln.
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First battle of the American Civil War.
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Bloodiest day in American History. Resulted in Lincoln issuing the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
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Union victory that stopped Confederate general Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North.
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Led the way to total abolitionism in the U.S.
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Honored Union soldiers and the battlefield cemetery succeeding the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Then-Major General Ulysses S. Grant became lieutenant general of the U.S. Army, leading all Union troops against the Confederacy.
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William Sherman and his army captured Atlanta, Georgia, an important transportation center for the Confederacy.
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Obliterated the Confederacy.
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Conspired to revive the Confederate cause.
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Banned slavery in all American states.
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Union forces started to gain control of Virginia thus signaling the start of the end of the Civil War.
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Assumed office after the assassination of Lincoln.
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Set up four requirements for southern states to return to the Union.
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Northerners started to migrate to the south to perform ex-slave labor for profit, while Southerners profited from the newly-acquired laborers.
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Used scare tactics to oppress minorities and perpetuate white supremacy.
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Marked the first Republican win during the Reconstruction Era. Grant was the youngest president ever elected at the time.
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Created to assist former slaves and poor whites in the south after the Civil War.
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Although Johnson vetoed it, Congress passed it stating that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
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Laid out the process to for readmitting Southern states into the Union.
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Created to prevent the Confederacy from reviving after the Civil War.
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Granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the U.S."
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First U.S. president to be impeached.
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Granted African American men the right to vote.
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Southern white Democrats wanted to redeem the south by regaining political power.
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A citizen's "privileges and immunities, as protected by the 14th amendment against the states, were limited to those spelled out in the Constitution.
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Led to an allowance of violence and deprivation of rights against the newly freed slaves.
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Formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
