- Grimke Sisters
- Manifest Destiny
- Wilmot Proviso
- Slavery
- States' Rights
- Abraham Lincoln
- Compromise of 1820
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Bleeding Kansas
- Stephen Douglass
- Frederick Douglas
- John Brown
- Nullification
- Sectionalism
- Republican Party
- Dred Scott Decision
- Talmadge Amendment
- Ostend Manifesto
- Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
- Election of 1860
- Nat Turner
- Democratic Party
- 3/5's Compromise