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He was the main general for the Union troops, and he accepted the South's surrender at the end of the war.

Ulysses S. Grant

1. This was a law in 1854 that said popular sovereignty would be used in two large territories that were trying to become states. After this law was passed, the Missouri Compromise was no longer followed.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

The territories of Oregon, Texas, & California were gained during his presidency.

James K. Polk

1. He was the president of the United States during the Civil War, and his reason for joining the war was to preserve the Union.

Abraham Lincoln

1. This person was an abolitionist who tried to steal weapons to start a slave rebellion. He was caught and executed for his actions.

John Brown

1. He was the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

Jefferson Davis

1. This describes the belief that Americans should take over North America to spread democracy

Manifest Destiny

1. This location was where the Civil War started in 1861. Confederate troops attacked a Union fort, and the South won this conflict.

Fort Sumter

1. This court case determined that slaves were not US citizens. Instead, slaves were considered property of their masters.

Dred Scout v. Sanford

1. This was the main reason for why Atlanta was a target for the Union Army.

Railroad System Hub

1. This man was the second most important general in the Confederate Army. When he died during the war, many Southerners lost hope for winning the war.

Stonewall Jackson

1. The issue was whether a new state would be free or slave holding was caused as a result of this event, which doubled the size of the U.S.

Impact of the

Louisiana Purchase

1. This political idea said that the people living in a territory should be able to vote on whether their new state would be a slave state or a free state.

Popular Sovereignty

1. This conflict was the turning point of the Civil War because the Confederate invasion of the North was stopped in Pennsylvania, and the South lost too many men and resources.

Battle of Gettysburg

1. This was a conflict from 1846-1848 that saw the U.S. win territory called the Mexican Cession that included eventual states like California.

Mexican-American War

1. The event made Lincoln the president of the United States, and afterward, the South seceded. They made their own country called the Confederate States of America.

Election of 1860

This was a document signed by Lincoln, and it stated that all slaves in the Confederate States of America were free.Very few slaves were actually given freedom, but this document made the war all about the moral issue of slavery.

Emancipation Proclamation

Tmost controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 - runaway slaves that made it to the North could be captured and retumed to the South.

Fugitive Slave Law

This conflict was the bloodiest day of the Civil War and the bloodiest single day in American History. This event also encouraged Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

Battle of Antietam

Gained Britain as a result of a border agreement at the 49th parallel

Oregon Terntory

He was the main general for the South during the Civil War, and he represented the South when it surrendered in 1865 at Appomattox Court House, Virginia

Robert E. Lee

This conflict allowed the Union troops to prevent supplies from reaching the Confederate troops because the Union troops blocked trade along the Mississippi River

Battle of Vicksburg

This was Lincoln's most famous speech, and he reminded the US that it needed to keep fighting so it could achieve its goal of preserving the Union.

Gettysburg Address

This was an event in 1845 that caused the Mexican American War and further divided the nation due to the possible expansion of slavery

Texas Annexation

This man was a Northem general who became famous for marching through Georgia for the sole purpose of destroying resources and infrastructure, and leading his troops through Atlanta, burning down the city.

William T. Sherman

This military tactic was used when troops would go beyond just destroying things on the battlefield - they would destroy and harm anything that stood in the way of them winning a war/battle.

Total War

This agreement said that Maine would be a free state and Missouri would be a slave state. It also said that all new states above the 36 30' parallel would be free and all new states below this line would have slaves.

Missouri Compromise

agreement stated several ideas to prevent conflicts between the North and South. Main points - California became a free state, there was no more slave trade in Washington DC, popular sovereignty would be used in the Mexican Cession, and the Fugitive Slave Law would go into effect in the North.

Compromise of 1850

This is the event that showed South Carolina believed in States' Rights, as they tried to say they could choose to ignore a federal law if they didn't like it, which foreshadowed how 30 years later they would be the first to succeed from the Union.

Nullification Crisis

This is the right guaranteed by the federal government that an arrested individual must be brought to a court in order to prevent unlawful or indefinite imprisonment. Both Presidents (Union and Confederacy) suspended This

Habeas Corpus

This event occurred at Fred’s Theatre in a Washington DC where confederate sympathizer ended Lincoln’s plans for the reconstruction of the nation

Lincoln's

Assassination

This was Lincoln's speech after being reelected in which he offered a message of peace and reconciliation for the North and the South in 1865

2nd Inaugural Address