Fort Sumter
Secession
Romanticism
Wilmot Proviso
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott v. Sanford (The Dred Scott Case)
Election of 1860
The Impending Crisis
Panic of 1857
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Popular Sovereignty
Mexican-American War
Mexican Cession
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Manifest Destiny
Oregon Trail
Transcendentalism
Whig Party
The nullification crisis
Jackson and the second BUS
Democratic Party
Hinton Helper
Roger Taney