People/Leaders
The leader of the Union, who was also elected as President in 186
Who was Abraham Lincoln
He started a huge slave revolt and controversy
Who was Nat Turner
The supposed beginning of what started the war; It caused many controversies
What was Bleeding Kansas?
People who are against slavery.
Who are abolitionists?
The era of building back America to be better and fix the status of African Americans.
What was the Reconstruction Era?
The Union General
Who was Ulysses S. Grant
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe
The official battle that started the Civil War
What was Fort Sumter?
States that did not secede the Union and join the Confederacy?
What are border states?
The person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
President of the Confederacy
Who was Jefferson Davis
The reason states started to secede and found the Confederacy.
What is the states' rights and keeping slavery and the election of Abraham Lincoln?
The first major battle of the Civil War.
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
The main reason for the Civil War.
What is slavery?
Vice president under Lincoln's term causing him to be the 17th president.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Confederates' Generals
Who was Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson
The federal legislation passed in 1821 to fix the balance of slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A major turning point in the war and a battle that caused many casualties and was most important to the Civil War.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
Important people that helped to abolish slavery and helped slaves.
Who were Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas?
The amendment that grants citizenship to people born in America, equal rights.
What is the 14th amendment?
He was a colonel in the Union and commanded the first all-black regiment.
Who was Robert Gould Shaw
An act established by the government to fix the allowance of states into the union as slave or not; it led to Bleeding Kansas.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
The winning side of the Civil War.
What was the Union?
The presidential proclamation and amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th amendment?
The amendment that grants equal voting rights.
What is the 15th amendment?