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was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. Rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white
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and helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States.
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was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was a key leader of this society who often spoke at its meetings.
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First was the notion that women were subordinate to men by God's decree.
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he shocked his listeners at the 1843 national convention of free people of color when he called upon slaves to murder their masters.
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In 1848, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and several other women decided to call a women's rights meeting in Seneca Falls, New York.
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she decided to escape slavery in Maryland for Philadelphia. She feared that her family would be further severed and was concerned for her own fate as a sickly slave of low economic value.
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she encouraged other women leaders, notably Lucretia Mott, she continued to appear before suffrage gatherings for the rest of her life.
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the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
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part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
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it achieved wide popularity, particularly among white readers in the North, by vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery.
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was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States , which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper mid western states to discuss the formation of a new party.
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ruled that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom and that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States
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It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War.
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a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy.
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was a series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign, largely concerning the issue of slavery extension into the territories.
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an assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal armoury located at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. It was a main precipitating incident to the American Civil War.
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Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas, while southern Democrats nominated John Breckinridge. This split the Democratic ticket in half, giving the Republicans, who nominated Abraham Lincoln, a huge advantage.
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States.
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became the 16th United States President
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the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated
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was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.
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one of the greatest Confederate threats to Washington, D.C. The battle took its name from Antietam Creek, which flows south from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to the Potomac River near Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
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is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania
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declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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world-famous speech delivered by Pres. Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the National Cemetery, the site of one of the decisive battles of the American Civil War
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abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
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a brief document officially promoting then-Major General Ulysses S. Grant to the rank of lieutenant general of the U.S. Army, tasking the future president with the job of leading all Union troops against the Confederate Army.
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a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia
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Lincoln himself believed he had little chance of being re-elected because of this, McClellan was thought to be a heavy favorite to win the election.
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Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning.
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was one of the last battles of the American Civil War
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was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869
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implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
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refers to Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. Many carpetbaggers were said to have moved South for their own financial and political gains. Scalawags were white Southerners who cooperated politically with black freedmen and Northern newcomers.
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hate organizations that have employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded immediately after the Civil War
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during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex-Confederate states, the ex-Confederate leaders, and freedmen (ex-slaves)
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established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom
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overriding a veto by President Andrew Johnson. The law's chief thrust was to offer protection to slaves freed in the aftermath of the Civil War
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grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War.
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a resolution to impeach the President for high crimes and misdemeanors. One week later, the House adopted eleven articles of impeachment against the President.
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first election of the Reconstruction Era, Republican nominee Ulysses S. Grant defeated Democrat Horatio Seymour.
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rant was elected as a Republican in 1868 and after the election he generally sided with the Radicals on Reconstruction policies and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1871 into law
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granted African American men the right to vote.
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decision in 1873 limiting the protection of the privileges claused of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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an important United States Supreme Court decision in United States constitutional law, one of the earliest to deal with the application of the Bill of Rights to state governments following the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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an informal, unwritten deal, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
