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People
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Daniel Webster
Senator, Orator, and Champion of American Union
Dred Scott
Enslaved man whose lawsuit for freedom produced the Supreme Court's most condemned decision
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the cotton gin who accidentally expanded slavery and deliberately built American mass production
Franklin Pierce
14th President of the United States, 1853–1857
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist, orator, and the 19th century's most powerful voice against American slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the novelist who sharpened the nation's conscience on slavery
Harriet Tubman
Abolitionist, Union spy, and conductor of the Underground Railroad
Henry Clay
The Great Compromiser who held the Union together — and delayed its reckoning
James Buchanan
15th President of the United States, 1857–1861
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America, 1861–1865
John Brown
Militant abolitionist who brought the war over slavery to a boil
John C. Calhoun
Senator, Vice President, and the intellectual architect of Southern secessionism
Millard Fillmore
13th President of the United States, whose compromise bought a decade and cost a nation
Roger Taney
Chief Justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision — the worst ruling in the Court's history
Sojourner Truth
Abolitionist, suffragist, and orator who escaped slavery to become its most forceful living refutation
Stephen A. Douglas
The "Little Giant" Whose Kansas-Nebraska Act Fractured the Union, 1813–1861
Thomas Jefferson
Author of the Declaration of Independence and Third President of the United States
William Lloyd Garrison
Publisher, abolitionist, and the loudest moral voice against American slavery
Zachary Taylor
12th President of the United States, a war hero who died before the crisis could break
Places
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Harpers Ferry
The Virginia armory town where John Brown struck the spark that lit the Civil War
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded 1607 on the Virginia tidewater
Northwest Territory
The Ohio Valley land first organized under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
South Carolina
Where the Civil War began and where nullification was born
Eras
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Age of Exploration and Contact
The 115 years of European arrival that reshaped two continents, 1492–1607
Early Republic
The 28 years that turned a coastal experiment into a continental power, 1800–1828
Jacksonian Democracy
The 20 years of democratic expansion — and brutal exclusion — that remade American politics, 1828–1848
The Antebellum Period
The decades of deepening crisis that made the Civil War inevitable, 1848–1861
The Civil War
The conflict that tore the United States apart and abolished slavery, 1861–1865
Events
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American Civil War
The 1861–1865 war over slavery and union that remade the nation
Battle of Antietam
The bloodiest single day in American military history, September 17, 1862
Bleeding Kansas
The violent territorial struggle that previewed the Civil War
Compromise of 1850
The last great legislative bargain before the Union broke apart
Election of 1860
The presidential election that dissolved the Union before the winner took office
Freedmen's Bureau
The federal agency that tried — and was not allowed — to secure Black Americans' freedom
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
The 1859 assault on a federal arsenal that made civil war feel inevitable to everyone
Juneteenth
June 19, 1865 — the day freedom finally arrived in Texas, and the holiday it became
Nat Turner's Rebellion
The 1831 slave rebellion that terrified the South and hardened the institution it challenged
Nullification Crisis
The 1832 standoff between South Carolina and Andrew Jackson that previewed secession
The Cotton Gin
The 1793 invention that mechanized cotton — and entrenched slavery
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The 1848 peace that gave the United States a third of a continent — and intensified the slavery crisis
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The 1852 novel that turned a generation against slavery
Documents
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
The 1857 Supreme Court ruling that declared Black Americans had no constitutional rights
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln's 1863 executive order that transformed the Civil War into a war for human freedom
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The 1854 law that reopened the slavery debate and shattered American politics
Missouri Compromise
The 1820 deal that delayed the Civil War by 40 years — and guaranteed it would be worse
Northwest Ordinance
The 1787 law that established the framework for American territorial expansion
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The law that forced the North to enforce slavery — and radicalized it
Thirteenth Amendment
The 1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States
Concepts
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Abolitionism
The movement to end slavery in America, from moral argument to political force
American Slavery
The institution that built the republic's wealth, defined its politics, and nearly destroyed the nation
Sectionalism
The regional rivalry between North and South that drove America toward Civil War
The Middle Passage
The brutal Atlantic crossing that carried millions into American slavery
Underground Railroad
The secret network of routes and safe houses that carried enslaved people to freedom
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