first ten amendments of U.S. Constitution; protects individual freedoms from government abuse

Landmark Supreme Court Case that established judicial review

set of laws proposed by Henry Clay that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

document that established our current national government in 1789

Hoosier abolitionist

set of laws, drafted by Henry Clay, that admitted California as a free state, banned slavery from D.C., included a stronger fugitive slave law

Landmark Supreme Court case that proclaimed enslaved people as property; struck down the Missouri Compromise

abolitionist-led group attempted to seize federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA

outlawed slavery in US (1865)

guaranteed citizenship rights for all natural-born and naturalized Americans

guaranteed right to vote (suffrage) to African-American male citizens

Congress' attempt to remove the president from office after Civil War

end of Reconstruction; removed federal military from South

local and state laws in the South that restricted rights of African-Americans

local and state laws that established segregation

meeting in NY in 1848 fighting for women's rights

social movement around the 1820s that encouraged moral reforms, especially targeting the negative effects of alcohol abuse

Pivotal Union victory in 1863 during Civil War

Presidential decree that all slaves in states still in rebellion on 01/01/1863 would be free; led to 13th Amendment