American History

Social movement against consumption of alcoholic beverages

First women's rights convention

An American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of early women's rights movement

Movement to end slavery

Social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesmen

The opportunity to farm fertile soil, enter fur trade, or trade with foreign nations across the pacific

Began when colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against Mexican government

A Democratic nominee of Tennessee, promised not only to annex Texas but also the contested Oregon Territory in the Northeast.

Political party, active in the middle of the 19th century

Initiated by the U.S. resulting in Mexico's defeat.

Mexico gave the U.S more than 500,000 square miles of territory

Bill that proposed to ban slavery in territories won from Mexico

Citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if they want to permit slavery.

Package of five separate bills passed by the U.S defusing a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states.

A slave holder or slave catcher had only to point out alleged runaways to have them taken into custody

Anti-Slavery novel

Douglas repealed the antislavery provision of the Missouri compromise and to divide the region into two territories

The scene of a territorial civil war

Court case that ruled slaves as property

A fervent abolitionist who opposed slavery not with words but with violence

Believed slavery was morally wrong, he opposed its spread into the western territories

One of the few federal military bases that southerners had not already seized

First major land battle of the armies in Virginia, Confederates won.

The union won

Union won

The result of the battle was inconclusive.

Declared all person held as slaves within rebellious states are free

Union won

Confederates won

Union won

Banning slavery in the U.S

Granted citizenship to all person born or nationalized in the U.S

The right to vote, no matter your race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Temperance, abolition and women's rights

Methodists, Baptists, and Arminians

Persuading people not to drink, pushing to halt liquor sales, making news penitentiaries, and creating elementary schools

William Lloyd Garrison, Lucretia Mott, and Frederick Douglass

Fugitive slave act, California to be admitted to the U.S.

Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckenridge, John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas

Abraham Lincoln

Had almost four times as may citizens, had many people to grow food and to work in factories, had more than 70% of the nation's rail lines.

Defending their homeland gave them a strong reason to fight, had skills that made them good soldiers, Many of the officers were from south

Fort Sumter, Shiloh, Antietam

To preserve a way of life