antebellum
This expression was popular in the 1840s. Many people believed that the U.S. was destined to secure territory from "sea to sea," from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This rationale drove the acquisition of territory.
annex
skirmish
states' rights
abolition
Movement to end slavery
free state
slave state
Missouri Compromise
sectionalism
Compromise of 1850
Nat Turner
Dred Scott
John Brown
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
Slave Codes
Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America
secede
Lincoln
Democrats
Republicans
Popular Sovereignty
Driver
Underground Railroad
discrimination
tariffs
Solvency