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| 9872560267 | California Gold Rush | 1849 (San Francisco 49ers) Gold discovered in California attracted a rush of people all over the country and world to San Francisco; arrival of the Chinese; increased pressure on federal government to establish a stable government |  | 0 |
| 9872560268 | popular sovereignty | A belief that ultimate power resides in the people. | 1 | |
| 9872560269 | Kansas Nebraska Act | 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. |  | 2 |
| 9872560270 | Free "Soiler" | People who opposed expansion of slavery into western territories |  | 3 |
| 9872560271 | Republican Party | 1854 - anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats, Free "Soilers" and reformers from the Northwest met and formed party in order to keep slavery out of the territories |  | 4 |
| 9872560272 | Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) |  | 5 |
| 9872560273 | secession | Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation |  | 6 |
| 9872560274 | Dred Scott Decision | A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen. |  | 7 |
| 9872560275 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 that highly influenced England's view on the American Deep South and slavery. A novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict. | 8 | |
| 9872560276 | Sectionalism | Loyalty to a region |  | 9 |
| 9872560277 | John Brown's Raid | Began when he and his men took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion. |  | 10 |
| 9872560278 | Robert E Lee | Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force |  | 11 |
| 9872560279 | Fort Sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War |  | 12 |
| 9872560280 | Antietam | The bloodiest single day battle in American History with over 26,000 lives lost in that single day. |  | 13 |
| 9872560282 | Gettysburg | The war's most famous battle because of its large size, high cost in lives, location in a northern state, and for President Abraham Lincoln's Address. |  | 14 |
| 9872560283 | Appomattox Courthouse | April 1865., the Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War |  | 15 |
| 9872560284 | Ulysses S Grant | an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. |  | 16 |
| 9872560286 | habeas corpus | Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment |  | 17 |
| 9872560287 | Presidential Reconstruction | President's idea of reconstruction : all states had to end slavery, states had to declare that their secession was illegal, and men had to pledge their loyalty to the U.S. |  | 18 |
