People I
author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Union victory; Meade vs Lee; Pennsylvania; most decisive battle
Battle of Gettysburg
amendment that outlawed slavery
13th
Confederate general of the Army of Northern Virginia
Robert E. Lee
former slave and a leader of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Angel of the Battlefield
Clara Barton
Confederate victory; Beauregard & Jackson vs McDowell; neither side was ready for serious combat
First Battle of Bull Run
amendment that prohibited states from denying the right to vote
15th
led the March to the Sea
William Techumseh Sherman
shot and killed President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
led an uprising of in Harper's Ferry
John Brown
Union victory with Grant; cleared the way for the North to invade Georgia
Battle of Chattanooga
legislation presented by Henry Clay that California would be added as a free state; Mexican Cession would be determined by popular sovereignty; included a stricter Fugitive Slave Law
Compromise of 1850
Union general who captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee; became supreme commander of the Union armies; 18th president
Ulysses S. Grant
first president to be impeached
Andrew Johnson
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
bloodiest single day of Civil War
Battle of Antietam
law that allowed two territories to determine their status (free state/slave state) by popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
commanded Union forces at Gettysburg
George G. Meade
first Black American elected to Congress
Hiram Rhodes Revels
debated Abraham Lincoln in the race for an Illinois senate seat; proposed the idea of the Freeport Doctrine
Stephen A. Douglas
Battle of Vicksburg
legislation that R. B. Hayes would be president if all federal troops be removed from the southern states, appoint one southerner to his Cabinet and federal money be given for economic development in the South; this ended Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
replaced McDowell after First Battle of Bull Run; led Peninsula Campaign; strengths were organization, discipline, and training troops
George B. McClellan
founder of the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington