Events
The end of the Civil War
Surrender at Appomattox
Former slave who wrote and taught others about the horrible truth of slavery
Fredrick Douglas
Assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
An agreement to allow Maine & Missouri as states to keep the free vs slave states even.
Missouri Compromise
Abraham Lincoln elected President and South begins secession
Election of 1860
The action that officially began the Civil War
Attack on Fort Sumter
Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Surrendered to Grant at Appomattox
Robert E. Lee
Allowed for California to become a state & the Fugitive Slave Act went into effect
Compromise of 1850
White abolitionist who launched a slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry
John Brown’s Raid
Early Confederate victories
Battles of Bull Run
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom
Harriet Tubman
President of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
Slaves caught escaping returned to their plantations in the south
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Conflict and bloodshed from people moving into territories decide the free vs slave vote
Bleeding Kansas
Destroyed everything in their path from Atlanta to Savannah
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Former slave who became an abolitionist and spoke at women’s gatherings
Sojourner Truth
The general of the Union Troops
Ulysses S. Grant
Court case that ruled Africans of American descent were not citizens and could not sue in court
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
Escape route for slaves seeking freedom in the north
Underground Railroad
Military strategy to capture the MS River
The Anaconda Plan
Led a slave rebellion that made it illegal to teach slaves to read and write
Nat Turner
Stood like a stonewall during a battle
Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson
Freed the slaves in the confederate states only
Emancipation Proclamation
Northern people who brought the issue of slavery to the national conversation
Abolitionist Movement