Period 5

3. Scott v Sandford - Supreme Court case stating that African Americans weren't citizens; Congress couldn't ban slavery
7. Act - Allowed territories to decide on slavery by popular sovereignty
8. Court House - Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War
12. Codes - Laws passed in the South to restrict the rights of freed African Americans
14. Proviso - Failed proposal to ban slavery in territories won over from Mexico
15. amendment - Abolished and prohibited slavery in the US
17. Party - Political party formed in 1850s to oppose the expansion of slavery
18. March - Union campaign of total war through Georgia
19. Beecher Stowe - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that fueled abolitionist support
20. of 1877 - Ended Reconstruction by removing all federal troops from the South

1. of 1850 - Laws created to ease tensions between North and South
2. - Civil War battle and major turning point
4. Kansas - Violent clashes over slavery in Kansas following the Kansas-Nebraska Act
5. Proclamation - Lincoln's order freeing slaves in the Confederate territory
6. Destiny - Belief that Americans were destined by God to expand across North America
9. - Withdrawal of Southern states from the Union
10. Bureau - Society created to assist former slaves during Reconstruction
11. Lincoln - 16th president of the US; led the Union forces during Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation
13. Sumter - First shots of the Civil War occurred here in 1861
16. Slave Act - Law requiring the return of escape slaves, even in free states