the first Whig President
William H. Harrison
1850s term for northerners who supported the South
“Doughfaces”
Former slave who became leading Black abolitionist
Frederick Douglass
Major river that divided free and slave states
Ohio
Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet B. Stowe
Compromise of 1850 clause the South celebrated
Fugitive Slave Law
1839 political party demanding an end to slavery
Liberty
Abraham Lincoln’s first political party
Whigs
the 1848 peace treaty that ushered in the Civil War
Guadalupe Hidalgo
The free state in the 1820 Missouri Compromise
Maine
A leading female Black abolitionist
Sojourner Truth
Supreme Court decision that made Blacks “property”
Dred Scott
Congressman who tried to abolish slavery in MO
James Tallmadge
A slave state added to the Union in 1845
Florida
Authored the 1850 Compromise
Henry Clay
President who brought in TX and Oregon Country
James K. Polk
Political party formed to keep slavery out of Mexican Cession
Free Soil
The political party that embraced slavery
Democratic
First western hemisphere nation to end slavery
Haiti
This 1803 land purchase doubled the U.S size
Louisiana
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Major 3-day battle in 1863 in Eastern theater
Gettysburg
Where draft riots occurred in 1863
New York City
The first top commander of the Union forces
George B. McClellan
Where the Civil War started in 1861
Fort Sumter
Devised the “Anaconda Plan” for the North
Winfield Scott
One of 4 states that left the Union when war erupted
Virgina
Battle that produced the Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam
Declared “contraband of war” by Gen. Ben E. Butler
Runaway slaves
Fought for the Union in over 400 battles/skirmishes
USCT
Peace Democrats in the North
“copperheads”
The first major battle of the war
Bull Run
Key battle for black Union soldiers
Fort Wagner
Northern Democratic candidate for President in 1860
Stephen Douglas
The first state to secede from the Union in1860
South Carolina
What most former slaves did for work after the war
Sharecropping
Part of the 1862 Whig economic pledge
Morrill Act
The Republican candidate for President in 1860
Abraham Lincoln
March to the sea (Atlanta to Savannah)
William T. Sherman
A border state throughout the war
Maryland