Road to War
The pre-war agreement aimed to reduce friction over slavery in newly acquired lands.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
This Virginian city served as the capital of the Confederate States of America.
Richmond
This presidential decree declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territory to be free.
The Emancipation Proclamation.
Newspapers and photographs were common ways people did this during the Civil War.
Received information related to the war.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address dedicated this hallowed ground as one of these.
A National Cementary.
Name two significant distinctions between the North and the South that contributed to conflict.
What is Economy and Culture
This Union victory is often seen as the turning point of the Civil War.
Gettysburg
The Emancipation Proclamation officially took effect on this date.
January 1, 1863
During the Civil War, soldiers primarily did this to get around.
Marched
In his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln urged the nation to dedicate itself to this.
New birth of a nation; The government would not perish.
This fiery abolitionist led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
Lincoln strategically issued the Emancipation Proclamation following this Union victory in Maryland.
Battle of Antietam
Lincoln chose to present the Emancipation Proclamation after the Battle of Antietam because of this strategic consideration.
It was a Northern victory.
Lack of supplies, disease, and homesickness were some of these faced by Civil War soldiers.
John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated President Lincoln, was motivated by this.
Southern cause/Southern sympathizer.
This fundamental issue is considered the primary cause of the American Civil War.
States Rights'
The Union's capture of Vicksburg achieved this strategically important goal regarding the what river.
Mississippi River
While it didn't free all enslaved people, the Emancipation Proclamation significantly shifted this aspect of the war.
Making the war about freeing slaves.
Many women on both sides took on these new roles due to the absence of men fighting in the war.
Typical male roles of the time.
General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House directly led to his army doing this.
Disbanding and going home.
This event, involving the election of 1860, was a major catalyst for Southern secession.
Election of Lincoln
Place these events in the correct chronological order: President Lincoln is assassinated in Washington, DC.; Battle of Gettysburg; General Lee surrenders at Appomattox; General Sherman enters Atlanta.
Gettysburg; Sherman; Appomattox; Assassination
This amendment, fully abolishing slavery in the United States, was a direct consequence of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Union victory.
13th Amendment.
This was a common method used to raise armies for both the Union and the Confederacy.
Conscription
Establishing historical parks or museums is one way to do this to Civil War battlefields.
Preserve them.