is for Antietam

The Battle of Antietam was the deadliest one-day battle in American military history. It also showed that the Union could stand against the Confederate army.

is for Battle of Bull Run

30,000 federal troops marched from Washington, D.C., to attack Confederate forces near Bull Run Creek at Manassas Junction, Virginia. Confederate reinforcements counterattacked and won the battle. It showed that this would not be a short war. 

is for Confederacy

The Confederate States of America were the states trying to secede from the Union. The Confederates built a white-supremacist and pro-slavery nation dedicated to the principle that all men are not created equal.

is for Dred Scott v. Stanford

Scott had been held in slavery in

Missouri and then taken to the free territory of Wisconsin, where he lived for two years before returning to Missouri. The Court ruled that no African American could be a citizen and that Dred Scott was still a slave. The court also ruled that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional.

is for Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, during the third year of the civil war. The proclamation declared that all people held as slaves within the confederate states are free. 

is for Frederick Douglass

Douglass was a well-known abolitionist. Douglass was a consultant to President Abraham Lincoln and helped convince him that slaves should serve in the Union forces and that the abolition of slavery should be a goal of the war.

is for Gettysburg Address

Lincoln rallied to Americans

the idea that all men are created equal. He said that the way would bring a new birth of freedom and advanced democracy in America and all over the world. He said this speech at the place the Battle of Gettysburg occurred. 

is for Homestead Act

promoted settlement of the Great Plains by offering parcels of 160 acres of public land free to any person or family

that farmed that land for at least five years.

is for the Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on Monday, March 4, 1861. In his address he wanted the South, who was defeated, to be treated benevolently. He took a firm stance against secession. 

is for Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis served as the president of the Confederate States. Jefferson Davis was adamant about independence for the Confederacy. He was a Southern Democrat and a war hero from the Mexican-American war. 

is for King Cotton

The Confederates hoped for European Intervention in order to help them against the Union army. They thought that they could use their cotton-based economy as leverage, but the Europeans found other ways of obtaining cotton and did not help the confederates. 

is for Lincoln, Abraham

Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th president of the United States, primarily during the civil war.  He built the Republican party and rallied many for the Union's cause of fighting against secession. He is known for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and freeing many slaves, and for setting the stage for future equality. 

is for Manifest Destiny

The idea of Manifest Destiny and the expansion of the United States West, it created the issue of slavery. As with new states being added, there was discussion on if slavery should be permitted. This caused an increase in sectionalism and contributed greatly to the civil war. 

is for Nast, Thomas

Thomas Nast was an American cartoonist who created political cartoons to expose corruption in the government, as well as show the aftermath of the civil war through his art. He voiced the opinions of different Americans and defined the use of political cartoons to come. 

is for O'Sullivan, John

John O'Sullivan promoted the idea that settlers have a right to territorial conquest. He expressed the phrase "Manifest Destiny" which spread rapidly. He wanted America to take over the continent and spread ideas of nationalism throughout. 

is for Pacific Railway Act

The Pacific Railway Act authorized the building of a transcontinental railroad over a northern route in order to link the economies of California and the Western territories with the Eastern states. This further encouraged expansion and opportunity.