Pre Civil War Events
After the Mexican-American War, this compromise allowed the South to have a Fugitive Slave Law while the North got this state.
What is California?
This site was where the Civil War began.
What was the Battle of Bull Run?
She was known as the conductor of the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman
He was the president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Reconstruction began in this year.
What is 1865?
This "railroad" was actually a series of safe house that allowed many runaway slaves to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This battle, although ended in a tie, led President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
This great compromiser used his influence to create the Compromise of 1850.
He was appointed commander of all Union forces in 1864.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Reconstruction came to an end with his controversial election.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This act, passed in 1854, repealed the Missouri Compromise and created popular sovereignty in the new territory.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
Her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, became a best seller in the North.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
He was the Confederate commander during the Civil War.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
This amendment made African Americans citizens and created due process of law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Dred Scot was a slave and never could be a citizen. The court ruled that the slaveowner was protected by this amendment.
What is the 5th amendment?
This battle eventually saw the Confederacy being cut in two.
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
His uprising at Harper's Ferry was not successful.
Who is John Brown?
Congress impeached him because he "violated" the Tenure of Office Act.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This act divided the South into 5 military districts and treated the South harshly.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
After Lincoln was elected president, this was the first southern state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This was the site that General Lee surrendered to General Grant ending the Civil War in 1865.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
He sued for his freedom because he claimed that being in a free state made him free. The Supreme Court refused.
He was the Confederate president during the Civil War.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
These Acts in 1870 & 1871 supervised elections in the South and allowed the president to use federal troops where the KKK was active.
What are the Enforcement Acts of 1870 & 1871?