A violent guerilla war between pro-slavery and abolitionist forces in this state.

The efforts in which enslaved African Americans fled bondage. Ran from the South to the North, as far as Canada and Mexico

Issued on January 1, 1863. Declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

A charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office.

Laws that were passed to enforce racial segregation and reduce the rights of Black people in the South following the Civil War.

A controversial book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that widened the chasm between the North and the South greatly strengthened Northern abolitionism and weakened British sympathy for the Southern cause.

called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of the slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.

Lincoln suspended this judicial process in 1862. This is a tool preventing the government from unlawfully imprisoning individuals outside of the judicial process.

A group of Democrats who opposed the Civil War and wanted a peaceful negotiation with the Confederacy.

System where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop

The idea that the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their own territory would decide to either be a free or slave state?

Repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.

This provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. Designed to help settle the West.

The term was applied to Northern politicians and financial adventurers whom Southerners accused of coming to the South to use the newly enfranchised freedmen as a means of obtaining office or profit

These were four acts passed by Congress to protect the rights guaranteed to African Americans by the 14th and 15th Amendments

John Brown raided this federal armory, arsenal, and rifle factory with 21 men. One of the most important abolitionist events leading up to the Civil War.

This law forced all enslaved people who were caught escaping to return to their owners, even if they arrived in a free state.

This regiment was the first African-American regiment from the North to serve in the Civil War.

This term was used to describe white Southerners who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with black freedmen and the so-called carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies

A violent post-Civil War secret society founded in Tennessee in 1866 to upend the Black political and social power that was being established during Reconstruction

Where John Brown and his sons were killed in Kansas. The killings here marked the beginning of the "Bleeding Kansas".

This was an unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery in the United States Constitution, and thereby make it unconstitutional for future congresses to end slavery.

This was a Union offensive to suppress the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War by surrounding the Confederacy on both land and water.

This organization was created to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.

The Radical Republicans passed four Reconstruction Acts in 1868: (1) ratify the Fourteenth Amendment; (2) write new state constitutions that guarantee freedmen the right to vote; (3) form new governments to be elected by all male citizens including African Americans.