Battles
First battle of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
His election is the final straw leading to secession
Lincoln
Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe on slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Leader of Confederate forces
Robert E. Lee
Assassin of President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Confederate name for the first Battle of Bull Run
Manassas
Escaped slave know for her role in the "Underground Railroad"
Harriet Tubman
Allowed for the capture and return of slaves in the North
Fugitive Slave Act
President of Confederacy during the war
Jefferson Davis
Replaces Lincoln as President in 1865
Andrew Johnson
Location of Lee's surrender in 1865
Appomattox, Virginia
This repealed the Missouri Compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act
Supreme Court's reasoning for ruling against Dred Scott
Slaves are not citizens thus have no rights
Leader of Union forces who will become Pres. of USA
Ulysses Grant
Lincoln's moral declaration to free the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
Largest land battle of the war
Battle of Gettysburg
The idea of slaves embracing slavery
Paternal Defense of Slavery
Author of the Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
This distinguishes the 54th Massachusetts regiment
Lincoln's opponent in the 1860 election
Stephen Douglas
Gave the Union control of Mississippi River
Battle of Vicksburg
Name for the economic/political importance of cotton
King Cotton
Liberal belief in humans and progressivism
Transcendentalism
General Winfield Scott
Lincoln suspends a person's right to be brought before a judge or jury-this is know as?
Habeus Corpus