| 8050176396 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Ended the Mexican-American War | | 0 |
| 8050176397 | Wilmot Proviso | Amendment that sought to prohibit slavery from territories acquired from Mexico | | 1 |
| 8050176398 | General Lewis Cass | father of popular sovereignty | | 2 |
| 8050176399 | War of 1812 | Fought between Britain and the United States largely over the issues of trade and impressment | | 3 |
| 8050176400 | Popular Sovereignty | Notion that the sovereign people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery. | | 4 |
| 8050176401 | General Zachary Taylor | Hero of Buena Vista in the Mexican War | | 5 |
| 8050176402 | Free Soil Party | A party committed against the extension of slavery in the territories & one that also advocated federal aid for internal improvements and urged free government homesteads for settlers | | 6 |
| 8050176404 | Underground Railroad | Informal network of volunteers that helped runaway slaves from the South and reach free soil Canada | | 7 |
| 8050176405 | Harriet Tubman | Former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad | | 8 |
| 8050176406 | Henry Clay | The Great Compromiser | | 9 |
| 8050176407 | Stephen Douglas | The Little Giant | | 10 |
| 8050176408 | John C. Calhoun | Southern senator who pleaded for states rights, for slavery to be left alone, for the return of runaway slaves, he restoration of the rights of the South as a minority, and the return for political balance | | 11 |
| 8050176409 | Daniel Webster | Northerner who proclaimed that the new land could not hold shaves & his Seventh of March speech helped move the north into Compromise | | 12 |
| 8050176410 | Seventh of March Speech | Daniel Webster's address urging the north to support the Compromise of 1850. | | 13 |
| 8050176411 | William H. Seward | Senator of NY who was against concession and hated slavery and said that Christian legislators must adhere to a "higher law" and not allow slavery to exist | | 14 |
| 8050176412 | Millard Fillmore | Took over when President Taylor died & signed a series of agreements known as the Compromise of 1850 | | 15 |
| 8050176413 | Compromise of 1850 | Admitted California as a free state, opened New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty, ended the slave trade in Washington D.C., and introduced a stricter Fugitive slave law | | 16 |
| 8050176414 | Fugitive Slave Law | Stated that (1) fleeing slaves couldn't testify on their own behalf, (2) The federal commissioner who handled the case got $5 if the slate was free and $10 if not, (3) people were ordered to help catch slaves, even if they didn't want to | | 17 |
| 8050176415 | Franklin Pierce | "dark horse" candidate in the election of 1852 for the Democrats, wins the presidency. Known as the "fainting general" | | 18 |
| 8050176416 | Winfield Scott | "Old Fuss and Feathers," whose conquest of Mexico City brought U.S. victory in the Mexican War | | 19 |
| 8050176417 | Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America | | 20 |
| 8050176418 | William Walker | declared himself the president of Nicaragua and legalized slavery | | 21 |
| 8050176419 | Ostend Manifesto | Stated that the state was to offer $120 million to Spain for Cuba and if it refused and Spains ownership of Cuba continue to endanger the United States there in America would be justified in seizing island | | 22 |
| 8050176420 | Commodore Matthew Perry | His treaty of Kanagawa formerly opened Japan | | 23 |
| 8050176421 | Gadsden Purchase | Acquired additional land from Mexico for $10 million to facilitate the construction of a southern trans continental railroad | | 24 |
| 8050176422 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Proposed that the issue of slavery be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territory, revoking the 1820 Missouri Compromise | | 25 |
| 8050176423 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin | | 26 |
| 8050176424 | Hinton R. Helper | Non-aristocratic white North Carolinian, who tried to prove that the non-slave-holding Southern whites were the ones most hurt by slavery | | 27 |
| 8050176425 | John Brown | Led a band of followers to Pottawatomie Creek in May of 1856 and hacked to death five presumable pro-skaveryites | | 28 |
| 8050176426 | Bleeding Kansas | Civil war in Kansas over the issue of slavery in the territory | | 29 |
| 8050176427 | Lecompton Constitution | Proposed Kansas state constitution that would have allowed slavery. | | 30 |
| 8050176428 | James Buchanan | Succeeded Franklin Pierce, was more toward the South, & firmly supported the Lecompton Compromise | | 31 |
| 8050176429 | Charles Sumner | Vocal anti-slaveryite & his speeches condemned all slavery supporters | | 32 |
| 8050176430 | Preston Brooks | Decided that since he couldn't challenge Charles Sumner to a duel, he instead beat him with a cane until it broke | | 33 |
| 8050176431 | John C. Fremont | Dashing explorer/adventurer who led the overthrow of Mexican rule in California after war broke out | | 34 |
| 8050176432 | Know Nothing Party | Nativist political party which emerged in response to an influx of immigrants | | 35 |
| 8050176433 | Nativists | Old-stock Protestants against immigrants | | 36 |
| 8050176434 | Dred Scott | United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state | | 37 |
| 8050176435 | Chief Justice Roger Taney | Said that no slave could be a citizen of the U.S. in his justification | | 38 |
| 8050176436 | Panic of 1857 | Financial crash brought on by gold-fueled inflation, overspeculation, and excess grain production | | 39 |
| 8058914919 | 5th Amendment | Said that Congress couldn't take away property, in this case, slaves | | 40 |
| 8050176437 | Panic of 1837 | Economic crisis triggered by bank failures, elevated grain prices, and Andrew Jackson's efforts to curb over speculation on western lands & transportation improvements | | 41 |
| 8050176438 | Abraham Lincoln | Ran for Senate against Stephen A. Douglas & lost | | 42 |
| 8050176439 | Freeport Doctrine | Declared that since slavery couldn't exist without laws to protect it, territorial legislatures would have the final say on the slavery question | | 43 |
| 8050176440 | Harpers Ferry | Federal arsenal in Virginia seized by abolitionist John Brown in 1859. | | 44 |
| 8050176441 | Robert E. Lee | Commander of the Confederate Army | | 45 |
| 8050176442 | John C. Breckinridge | pro-slavery candidate nominated by southern Democrats for the 1860 presidential election | | 46 |
| 8050176443 | John Bell | candidate nominated for the 1860 election by the Constitutional Union Party(know nothing party) | | 47 |
| 8050176444 | Confederate States of America | the seven southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 | | 48 |
| 8050176445 | Crittenden Amendments | Attempt to appease the South, would have given federal protection for slavery in all territories south of the 36*30' where slavery was supported by popular sovereignty | | 49 |
| 8050176446 | Fort Sumter | The first shots of the Civil War were fired in South Carolina | | 50 |
| 8050176447 | Border States | Five slave states- Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia- that did not secede during the Civil War | | 51 |
| 8050176448 | Five Civilized Tribes | Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles | | 52 |
| 8050176449 | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | Confederate general - killed by his own men in the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 | | 53 |
| 8050176450 | King Wheat and King Corn | name the two "King" economies of the North | | 54 |
| 8050176451 | Charles Francis Adams | Persuaded Britain not to build any more ships for the Confederacy, since they might someday be used against England | | 55 |
| 8050176452 | Archduke Maximilian | Appointed by Napoleon III to become emperor of Mexico | | 56 |
| 8050176453 | Habeas Corpus | Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment | | 57 |
| 8050176454 | Morrill Tariff Act | Increased duties back up to 1846 levels to raise revenue for the Civil War. | | 58 |
| 8050176455 | National Banking System | Network of member banks that could issue currency against purchased government bonds. | | 59 |
| 8050176456 | National Banking Act | Act that established a system of federal banks, allowing for a standard issue of currency | | 60 |
| 8050176458 | Clara Barton | Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross | | 61 |
| 8050176459 | Dorthea Dix | woman who pushed for changes in the treatment of the mentally ill and founded 32 mental hospitals | | 62 |
| 8050176460 | Sally Tompkins | Richmond infirmary for wounded Confederate soldiers & was awarded rank of Captain by Jefferson Davis | | 63 |
| 8050176461 | Battle of Bull Run | First major battle of the Civil War, a victory for the South | | 64 |
| 8050176462 | General George McClellan | Union General at Antietam. Very cautious | | 65 |
| 8050176463 | Peninsula Campaign | Union General George B. McClellan's failed effort to seize Richmond, the Confederate Capital. | | 66 |
| 8050176465 | Seven Days' Battles | Confederate victory in Virginia, during which Lee stopped Union campaign against Richmond | | 67 |
| 8050176466 | Blockade-running | process of smuggling materials through the blockade | | 68 |
| 8050176467 | Second Battle of Bull Run | Ended in a decisive victory for Confederate General Robert E. Lee | | 69 |
| 8050176468 | General John Pope | Union general at 2nd Battle of Bull Run; defeated; replaced by McClellan | | 70 |
| 8050176469 | Battle of Antietam | Landmark battle that ended in a draw but demonstrated the prowess of the Union army, forestalling foreign intervention and giving Lincoln the "victory" he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation | | 71 |
| 8050176470 | Emancipation Proclamation | Declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free but didn't affect slavery in non-rebelling states | | 72 |
| 8050176471 | A.E. Burnside | Took over the Union army, but lost badly after launching a rash frontal attack at Fredericksburg | | 73 |
| 8050176472 | Battle of Fredericksburg | Decisive victory in Virginia for Confederate General Lee, who successfully repelled a Union attack | | 74 |
| 8050176473 | "Fighting Joe" Hooker | Badly beaten at Chancellorsville | | 75 |
| 8050176474 | Battle of Chancellorsville | Civil War battle that was one of the Confederate army's major victories | | 76 |
| 8050176475 | Battle of Gettysburg | Civil War battle in PA that was won by the Union and became the turning point of the war | | 77 |
| 8050176476 | General George G. Meade | Accidentally took a stand atop a low ridge flanking a shallow valley and the Union and Confederate armies fought a bloody and brutal battle in which the North "won" | | 78 |
| 8050176477 | General George Pickett | led the failed Confederate charge through an open field at the Battle of Gettysburg | | 79 |
| 8050176478 | Gettsyburg Address | Abraham Lincolns speech, delivered at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg battlefield | | 80 |
| 8050176479 | Ulysses S. Grant | Union general | | 81 |
| 8050176480 | David G. Farragut | Commander of the Union navy | | 82 |
| 8050176481 | Vicksburg | Two and a half month siege of a Confederate fort on the Mississippi River | | 83 |
| 8050176482 | General William Tecumseh Sherman | Union general known for his devastating March to the Sea. | | 84 |
| 8050176483 | March to the Sea | Sherman's march to Savannah which cut off confederate supplies received by the sea | | 85 |
| 8050176485 | War Democrats | Democrats who supported war and Lincoln | | 86 |
| 8050176486 | Peace Democrats | US Democrats who didn't support the war and hoped to reunite the states through negotiation | | 87 |
| 8050176487 | Copperheads | Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War and sympathized with the South | | 88 |
| 8050176488 | Clement L. Vallandigham | Notorious leader of the Copperheads from Ohio, who was banished to the Confederacy | | 89 |
| 8050176489 | Union Party | The temporary 1864 coalition of republicans and War Democrats that backed Lincoln's re-election | | 90 |
| 8050176490 | Andrew Johnson | Chosen by the Union party to ensure that the war democrats would vote for Lincoln | | 91 |
| 8050176491 | Cold Harbor | Soldiers were sent to battle with papers pinned on their backs showing their names and addresses | | 92 |
| 8050176492 | Richmond | Captured and burned by Grant | | 93 |
| 8050176493 | Appotomax Court House | Site where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant | | 94 |
| 8050176494 | John Wilkes Booth | United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln | | 95 |