Antebellum / Civil War / Reconstruction

Anti-slavery activists who demanded the immediate end of slavery

16th President of the United States who saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves ONLY in the Confederate states, NOT the border states.

The site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant

California is admitted as a free state; popular sovereignty applied to all other territories acquired from Mexico; Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 enacted; sale of slaves banned in Washington, D.C.

Supreme court decision that declared a slave was not a citizen and that slaves are considered property (chattel)

Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862; declared all slaves in the "states in rebellion" (Confederate states) to be free.

Site of the opening engagement of the Civil War.

American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

Turning point in the Civil War; deadliest battle that ended in a Union victory

Served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865

An attempt to lead an armed slave revolt by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia

Created Nebraska and Kansas as territories and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty

An agreement proposed by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state

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