Causes of the War
This significant element of the Compromise of 1850 enraged Northerners.
Fugitive Slave Law
The first shots of the war were fired here, after which the rest of the Middle South seceded from the Union.
Fort Sumter
Though it included the bloodiest single day of the war, Antietam served as a turning point in the war because it convinced Britain to not ally itself with the South, and because Lincoln issued this significant statement.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln's original 10% plan was opposed by this group in congress, because it was seens as too lenient on the South.
Radical Republicans
(Thaddeus Stephens; Charles Sumner)
Johnson originally vetoed this new aid organization, which gave welfare to newly freed slaves, but Congress overruled his veto.
Freedman's Bureau
This book galvanized many toward abolition as it made Northerners aware of the lives of Southern slaves.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
These slave states remained in the Union after the start of the war.
"Border States"
MO | KY | MD | DE | WV (1863)
This, the bloodiest battle of the war, suppressed a Southern incursion into the North, and caused Lincoln to reframe the scope of the Civil War with this statement.
Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln vetoed this congressional plan for reconstruction which required 50% of the population of southern states to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union.
Wade-Davis Bill
Congress began this era of Reconstruction in 1867, which saw federal troops protect the rights of newly freed slaves in the South.
Military Reconstruction
The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) granted popular sovereignty in Kansas, which brought 1) these violent pro-slavery advocates and 2) this violent abolitionist New Yorker into Kansas.
Border Ruffians (Burning of Lawrence)
John Brown (Pottawatomie Massacre)
Developed by Winfield Scott, "Scott's Great Snake", this was the North's battle strategy to defeat the south.
The Anaconda Plan
Vicksburg not only completed the western side of the Anaconda Plan, but also propelled this General into the command of the Union Army.
Ulysses S. Grant
After Lincoln's assassination, this southerner became the 17th president of the United States.
Andrew Johnson
Johnson's opposition to military reconstruction led him to attempt to fire his Secretary of War, which violated this new congressional act, which Congress used as a pretext for Johnson's impeachment.
Tenure of Office Act
In 1859, John Brown attempted to raid this ammo depot to start a southern slave uprising, but was captured and hung by this VA colonel.
Harper's Ferry
Robert E. Lee
During wartime, Lincoln suspended this constitutional protection, which saw suspected confederates and journalists opposed to the war held in prison indefinitely.
Habeus Corpus
As the election of 1864 approached, Lincoln wanted to prove the war was coming to a close and charged William Tecumseh Sherman to cut through the heart of the Deep South in this campaign.
Sherman's March to the Sea
Johnson's sustained veto of the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 paved the way for this amendment, which guaranteed equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
To rejoin the Union, Southern states were forced to ratify these amendments to the Constitution, also known as the Reconstruction amendments.
13th - Abolition
14th - Citizenship, Equal Protection
15th - Universal Male Suffrage
This election brought this first Republican into the presidency, which caused South Carolina and the Deep South to secede from the Union.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln
This early bloody battle proved to Northerners that the Civil War would not be quick and easy.
1st Battle of Bull Run
The final battle of the war saw Lee surrender to Grant here.
Appomattox Courthouse
President Grant passed this to empower federal troops to hunt down the newly established Ku Klux Klan.
Force Act
The tie in the election of 1876 officially ended the Reconstruction era with the Compromise of 1877. These are its two elements.
1) Hayes (R) becomes president
2) End Military Reconstruction