''am i not a man & a brother?''
''balloon frame'' houses"
''bleeding kansas''
''cotton is king''
''filibustering'' expeditions"
''fire-eaters''
''gentlemen of property & standing''
''king cotton diplomacy''
''moral suasion''
''perfectionism''
''plain folk''
''reannexation''of texas/''reoccupation''of oregon
''silent sabotage''
''swing around the circle''
''waving the bloody shirt''
american anti-slavery society
american colonization society
army of northern virginia
army of the potomac
bargain of 1877
battle of antietam
black codes
black families
black soldiers and sailors
bradwell v. illinois
caning of charles sumner
carpetbaggers and scalawags
civil rights act of 1875
civil rights bill of 1866
common school
contraband of war
crop-lien system
denmark vesey's conspiracy
dorothea dix
dred scott decision
emancipation proclamation
enforcement acts
ex parte milligan
fifteenth amendment
first modern war
fourteenth amendment
free soil party
fugitive slave act of 1850
gag rule
harpers ferry
harriet tubman
kansas-nebraska act of 1854
know-nothing party
lecompton constitution
liberty party
literacy tests
lords of the loom/lash
monitor v. merrimac
nat turner's rebellion
national banking system
polygamy
popular sovereignty
public education
radical republicans
redeemers
runaways
santa anna
santa fe trail
sea island experiment
second american revolution
secular communitarian
self-discipline
sharecropping
slaughterhouse cases
slave religion
southern paternalism
southern unionist
tejanos
temperance movement
the ''peculiar institution''
the freedman's bureau
the proslavery argument
the slave power
the texas revolt
transcontinental railroad
uncle tom's cabin
underground railroad
utopian communities
wilmot proviso
woman suffrage
women and war work
women in the 19th century
women in the confederacy