Key Figures
He was the President of the United States during the Civil War and author of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The location where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
The 1849 discovery of gold here led to the massive influx of "Forty-niners".
What is the California gold rush?
The Supreme Court decision that ruled African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This political party was formed in the 1850s with a platform opposing the expansion of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
This escaped slave became a prominent abolitionist and orator.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This 1863 battle is considered the turning point of the war and featured "Pickett’s Charge"
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This 1820 agreement maintained the balance between free and slave states by admitting Maine and Missouri.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Paper currency issued by the Union during the Civil War.
What are Greenbacks?
He served as the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
General Winfield Scott’s plan to strangle the South by blockading its coasts and controlling the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel that depicted the harsh realities of slavery
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Part of the Compromise of 1850, it required citizens to assist in the recovery of escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The system of agriculture that replaced slavery, where farmers worked land they didn't own in exchange for a portion of the crops.
What is Sharecropping?
The Union General who accepted the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The site of Robert E. Lee's final surrender to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House?
The term for the violent period of conflict in a Western territory following the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This amendment granted citizenship and "equal protection under the laws" to all persons born in the U.S.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
The 1848 meeting that is considered the start of the organized women's rights movement in the U.S.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
He was the actor and Confederate sympathizer who carried out the assassination of Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This General led a destructive "March to the Sea" through Georgia.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
He led the 1859 raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This amendment prohibited the denial of voting rights based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
These laws were passed by Southern states after the war to restrict the freedom of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?