Road to War
Battles
Leaders
Lincoln
Miscellaneous
100
-Missouri added as a slave state

-Maine added as free state

-Future states above 36° 30' would be free, future states below 36° 30' would allow slavery 

Missouri Compromise of 1820
100
Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second failed attempt to invade the Union and the turning point of the war
Battle of Gettysburg
100
President of the Union during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
100
Lincoln's primary goal throughout the Civil War 
"Preserve the Union" 
100
This political doctrine said that the people who lived in a territory, not the federal government, should decide the issue of slavery by voting
popular sovereignty 
200
1.California enters U.S. as free state

2.Tougher Fugitive Slave Law

3.Slave trade, but not slavery, outlawed in Washington D.C.

4.Settled boundary dispute between New Mexico and Texas

5.Issue of slavery decided by popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico territories 

Compromise of 1850
200
The location of the Battle of Fort Sumter, the first battle of the Civil War
Charleston, SC
200
This general surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in April 1865
Robert E. Lee
200
Issued by President Lincoln in 1862 and taking effect in 1863, this executive order freed all slaves in Confederate controlled territory
Emancipation Proclamation 
200
Written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, this novel convinced many northerners of the evils of slavery but was criticized by southerners as an inaccurate portrayal of their way of life
Uncle Tom's Cabin 
300
This compromise ruled that slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories 
Kansas-Nebraska Act
300
Confederate General Robert E. Lee's first attempt to take the fight to the North/Union and the bloodiest single day of fighting in the Civil War
Battle of Antietam 
300
This Union general was remembered as a villain by southerners after carving a 285 mile path of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah, GA
William T. Sherman 
300
"Four score and seven years ago..." 

A famous 2 minute speech given by President Lincoln commemorating a major Civil War battlefield, argued that the Civil War was a struggle to make America a nation of freedom for all its people 

Gettysburg Address
300
Slave states that remained part of the Union during the Civil War
Border states
400
In 1859, John Brown and his supporters attempted to capture a federal arsenal in this town and distribute the weapons to slaves
Harper's Ferry, VA
400
Union General William T. Sherman's campaign of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah
March to the Sea 
400
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis 
400
Given towards the end of the Civil War, Lincoln expressed his desire to show mercy to the Southern states and reunite the nation following the war


"With malice towards none, with charity for all...let us strive to finish the work we are in and bind up the nation's wounds" 

Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address 
400
When pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters flooded into Kansas following the Kansas-Nebraska Act, violence erupted across the territory.  As a result, Kansas earned the nickname __________
Bleeding Kansas
500
In their 1857 Dred Scott v Sanford decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property and could be taken anywhere without interference from the government.  What previous slave compromise did this eliminate? 
Missouri Compromise of 1820
500
The Battle of Vicksburg was significant because it gave the Union army control of what?
Mississippi River 
500
Who was Robert E. Lee referring to when he said, "He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right."
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson 
500
Fearful of pro-Confederate groups in the North interfering with the war effort, in 1863 President Lincoln used his emergency powers to suspend this civil liberty that prevents the government from jailing someone indefinitely without showing cause
Habeas Corpus 
500
Throughout the 1800's the United States was divided into two regions, north and south, with very different interests and cultures.  What is the term for this sort of regional division within a country?
sectionalism 
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