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This compromise banned slavery north of 36°30' in the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate territory.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This side had a larger population during the Civil War.
What is the Union?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
First president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This territory became the center of violent conflict over slavery.
What is Kansas?
This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
This Union general accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Main author of the Declaration of Independence and third president.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This Confederate general commanded the Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This Confederate general was accidentally shot by his own men.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
This amendment protected voting rights for African American men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Escaped slave who led many others to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This raid on Harpers Ferry was led by an abolitionist hoping to start a slave uprising.
What is John Brown's Raid?
This Union president led the nation during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This battle stopped Lee's invasion of the North.
What is Gettysburg?
The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was called this.
What is Reconstruction?
Abolitionist and powerful speaker who escaped slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This election victory in 1860 led several Southern states to secede.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This strategy sought to block Southern ports and divide the Confederacy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This speech redefined the purpose of the war and honored fallen soldiers.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
These three amendments are often called the Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
President whose election triggered Southern secession.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?