James K. Polk ran on campaign slogan "54-40 or Fight" to hold a firm stance about taking complete control of this northwest state:

Anti-slavery publication written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, that exposed the horrors of slavery:

This law required all northerners to return runaway slaves back to the south; north felt it gave too much power to the south

This idea allowed the previously free and unorganized territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decided on the issue of slavery:

What was President Abraham Lincoln's main goal at the beginning of the Civil War?

Northern strategy for winning the Civil War; involved surrounding the Confederacy and cutting off all their supply lines:

This document officially only ended slavery in states under control of the Confederacy:

Name of the famous speech given by Lincoln to remind people of the North's goal of preserving the Union:

Institution founded by two former slaves that aimed at providing education for African Americans in the fields of education and ministry

These three amendments are known as the "Reconstruction Amendments"; these amendments abolished slavery, gave citizenship & voting rights to newly freed-slaves: