With the country expanding Westward, many slave owners wanted to take their slaves into the new territories. Why was the Missouri Compromise a problem for slave owners?

Who was elected President in 1860 and led the Union in abolishing slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation?

A civil war is a war between citizens of the same country. In the United States of America, a civil war was fought between the citizens of the states of the _____, known as the Union, and the citizens of the states of the _____, known as the Confederate States of America.

After the Civil War, 3 amendments were added to the Bill of Rights. The ​ (a)   declared that slavery was illegal. The ​ (b)   established that all African Americans and former slaves were considered citizens of the United States. And the ​ (c)   granted African Americans the right to vote.

Match the words with their meanings.

​ (a)   was the first state to secede from the Union.

Put the following events in the correct order.

Abolitionist and Southerns rushed to the new Kansas-Nebraska territories because citizens there could vote whether or not slavery would be legal there. This caused conflict between the two groups and they became violent towards each other. That event became known as _________ ______.