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