Week 1.  Sectionalism and Union

Articles of Confederation
Constitution of 1787
Two-Party System
Whig Party
Democratic Party
Northeast
Northwest
South
Sectionalism
Turnpike Era
Turnpike Era
Canal Era
Steamboat Era
Railroad Era
Factory
Eli Whtiney
 Principle of the Mass Production of Interchangeable Parts
Cyrus Hall McCormick
Cotton Gin
Short Staple Cotton
Plantation
Slavery
Peculiar Institution
Free Blacks
Colonial Economy
Cavalier Myth

Week 2.  Slavery, the Wedge, 1775-1850

Three-fifths Compromise
Missouri Compromise
36o30' Line
American Colonization Society
Liberia
William Lloyd Garrison
Liberator
Second Great Awakening
American Anti-Slavery Society
Liberty Party
Slavocracy
Slave Power Conspiracy
Gag Rule
John Quincy Adams
Manifest Destiny
James K. Polk
Mexican War
David Wilmot
Wilmot Proviso
Mexican Session
Lewis Cass
Popular Sovereignty
Election of 1848
Conscience Whigs
Zachary Taylor
Free Soil Party
Martin Van Buren

Week 3.  Sectional Confrontation, 1850-54

Zachary Taylor
William H. Seward
California
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
Stephen A. Douglas
Great Compromise or Compromise of 1850
Millard Fillmore
Election of 1852
Franklin Pierce
Winfield Scott
John P. Hale
Filibusterers
William Walker
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Know Nothing
American Party or Native American Party

4.  Kansas and the Rise of the Republican Party

Stephen A. Douglas
David Rice Atchison
Kansas-Nebraska Bill (Act)
Popular Sovereignty
Eli Thayer
New England Emigrant Aid Society
Border Ruffians
Andrew W. Reeder
Beecher’s Bibles
Sheriff Samuel J. Jones
Sack of Lawrence
John Brown
Pottawotomie Massacre
Bleeding Kansas
John Geary
Charles Sumner
Andrew Pickens Butler
Preston Brook
Republican Party
Nathaniel P. Banks
Election of 1856
James Buchanan
John C. Fremont
Millard Fillmore

5.  The Deepening Crisis

Dred Scott
J. F. A. Sanford
 Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sanford (Dred Scott Case)
Roger B. Taney
Fifth Amendment
Robert J. Walker
Lecompton Constitution
Stephen A. Douglas
English Bill
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Freeport Doctrine
Harpers Ferry
John Brown
Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee

6.  Election of Lincoln and Secession Crisis

Election of 1860
Stephen A. Douglas
Constitutional Union Party
John Bell
William H. Seward
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Breckinridge
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Alexander H. Stephens
Compact Theory
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
John C. Calhoun
Confederate Constitution
Item Veto

7.  The Coming of War

Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward
James Buchanan
John J. Crittenden
Crittenden Compromise
John Tyler
Peace Convention
Fort Sumter
Maj. Robert Anderson
Star of the West
Brig. Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard
Andrew Johnson

8.  Border States and First Bull Run

6th Massachusetts Regiment
Baltimore Riot
Beriah Magoffin
Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Claiborne Jackson
Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Lyon
Camp Jackson Massacre
Maj. Gen. Sterling Price
Wilson’s Creek
Brig. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis
Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn
Pea Ridge
Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
West Virginia
Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott
Anaconda Plan
Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell
Brig. Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard
Manassas Junction
Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
First Bull Run
Brig. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson

Week 9.  Balance Sheet of War

Regular Army
Militia
U.S. Volunteers
Edwin M. Stanton
Conscription Act
“20-Nigger Law”
Enrollment Act
Bounty Jumpers
U.S. Military Academy
Political Generals
Smoothbore Musket
Rifle Musket
Claude E. Minie
Minie Ball
Blockade Runners
CSS Virginia/Merrimack
USS Monitor
CSS Hunley
Radical Republicans
Moderate Republicans
War Democrats
Peace Democrats
Copperheads
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Alexander Stephens

10. The Course of the War, 1861-63

Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan
Army of the Potomac
Eastern Theater
Western Theater
Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Fort Henry
Fort Donelson
Shiloh
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston
Ad. David G. Farragut
New Orleans
Peninsular Campaign
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson
Jackson’s Valley Campaign
Seven Pines
Seven Days Battles
Maj. Gen. John Pope
Second Bull Run
Gen. Braxton Bragg
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Maj. Gen. John C. Fremont
Contrabands
Second Confiscation Act
William H. Seward
Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside
Fredericksburg
Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker
Chancellorsville

Week 11.  From Gettysburg to Appomattox, 1863-65

Gen. Robert E. Lee
Maj. Gen. George G. Meade
Maj. Gen. Jeb Stuart
Gettysburg
Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett
Brig. Gen. George A. Custer
Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Vicksburg
Commodore David Dixon Porter
Gen. John C. Pemberton
Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans
Army of the Cumberland
Gen. Braxton Bragg
Army of Tennessee
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker
Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas
Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Wilderness
Spotsylvania Court House
Cold Harbor
Petersburg
Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early
Shenandoah Valley
Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
Union Party
Andrew Johnson
George B. McClellan
Ad. David G. Farragut
Mobile Bay
Atlanta
Gen. John Bell Hood
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Five Forks
Sayler’s Creek
Maj. Gen. George A. Custer
Appomattox Station
 
Week 12.  Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-66

Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
Freedmen
Abraham Lincoln
Reconstruction
Lincoln’s “Ten Per Cent Plan”
Thaddeus Stevens
Conquered Provinces Theory
State-Suicide Theory
Charles Sumner
Wade-Davis Bill
 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen’s Bureau)
Andrew Johnson
“Restoration”
Alexander Stephens
Black Codes

13. Congressional Reconstruction, 1865-70

Radical Republicans
Moderate Republicans
Conservative Republicans
39th Congress
Joint Committee on Reconstruction
Freedmen’s Bureau Bill
Civil Rights Bill
14th Amendment
“Swing around the Circle”
“Waving the Bloody Shirt”
First Reconstruction Act
40th Congress
Second Reconstruction Act
Third Reconstruction Act
Tenure of Office Act
Edwin M. Stanton
Command of the Army Act
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Benjamin Wade
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
ex parte Milligan
Radical Reconstruction
Urban League
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Horatio Seymour
15th Amendment