SLAVERY, CIVIL WAR, AND RECONSTRUCTION

Topics include slave ships, slavery in the North, Phyllis Wheatley, the Fugitive Slave Law, Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionists, Nat Turner, John Brown, the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, the Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska, Dred Scott, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, spirituals, Lincoln, the election of 1860, secession, Jefferson Davis, the start of the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, black soldiers, women and the war, the Gettysburg Address, the end of the war, Lincoln’s assassination, Andrew Johnson, the Black Codes, the Freedmen’s Bureau, the Reconstruction Amendments, the Reconstruction Acts, carpetbaggers, Grant’s presidency, the 1876 election, and Jim Crow laws and segregation.