2. http://www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of- us/videos/america-divided#america-divided

3. Sectionalism – Political, economic, and social divisions based on regional differences States’ Rights – Southerners argued that the federal government’s powers under the Constitution were limited and should not have the power to make slavery illegal Slavery – Many compromises were passed so that non slave states and slave states could be appeased; however, the compromises were successful only for a short time period. Secession of southern states from the Union to form the Confederacy: the Confederate States of America

4. http://www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of- us/videos/civil-war#civil-war

5. http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/brennamank/506/unit/ costliestbattles.html http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/brennamank/506/unit/ costliestbattles.html

6. 13 th Amendment 13 th Amendment 14 th Amendment 14 th Amendment 15 th Amendment 15 th Amendment

7. On 23rd September, 1862 Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. The statement said that all slaves would be declared free in those states still in rebellion against the United States on 1st January, 1863. The measure only applied to those states which, after that date, came under the military control of the Union Army. It did not apply to those slave states such as Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and parts of Virginia and Louisiana, that were already occupied by Northern troops. It was not until December 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution had been passed by the House of Representatives and had been ratified by the required number of states, that slavery was finally abolished everywhere in the United States.

8. The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution was passed by both houses on 8th June and the 13th June, 1866. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

9. Following its ratification by the requisite three-fourths of the states, the 15th Amendment, granting African- American men the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution. Passed by Congress the year before, the amendment reads, "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." One day after it was adopted, Thomas Peterson-Mundy of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, became the first African American to vote under the authority of the 15th Amendment.