People
16th President of the United States; grew up poor in Illinois in log cabins; mostly self-educated
Abraham Lincoln
Confederate States
South
Most bloody battle of the Civil War
Battle at Ghettysburg
This "act" declared that states above a certain geographic location would join the union as free states, and below a certain location would join as slave states
Kansas-Nebraska Act
She started the American Red Cross after serving as a nurse during the Civil War.
Clara Barton
Group of people treated as property, forced into unpaid labor and usually treated unfairly
Slaves
Union
North
April 14, 1865
Assassination of Lincoln
This "compromise" in 1820 guaranteed that Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state, and Maine as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise
Mary Todd
Lincoln's Wife
Political party much like the current democratic party that believed more in a federal government than state governments
Whigs
State where Abraham Lincoln grew up
Illinios
What happened in 1861?
Secession of southern states; beginning of Civil War
One-room schoolhouse that Abraham Lincoln attended when he could.
Blab School
Hot air balloons
General of the Confederacy; known for military prowess
Robert E. Lee
Most famous location for a battle of the Civil War; place where Lincoln delivered a famous address
Ghettysburg
This happened at Appomattox courthouse in 1861 in Virginia.
Surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant; end of Civil War
the time period when the former Confederate states were brought back to the Union
Reconstruction
One of the most notorious white supremacy groups started from the Civil War.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
General; leader of the Union; accepted surrender of Confederacy at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia in 1865
General Ulysses S. Grant
Ford Theater
March, 1857- This famous trial ended with the supreme court ruling a slave whose master died in the Union was still considered a slave and must be returned to his Confederate state.
Dred-Scott Decision
These states seceded from the Union due to states-rights issues, the most prominent of which was slavery.
The Confederate States of America
Purple and Diet Coke
What are Mrs. Nuckols' favorite color and beverage! :)