People
led many people to freedom by the way of the Underground Railroad
First shots of the Civil War fired here
Where is Fort Sumter?
first major battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
What was the Fugitive Slave Act apart of?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Where is Richmond, Virginia?
led a "march to the sea" near the end of the Civil War
Who is General William T. Sherman?
location of Lee's surrender to Grant
Where is Appomattox Court House?
Battle of the ironclads
What is the Merrimack and Monitor?
Allowed slavery in the new US territories
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Speech given by Lincoln to honor fallen soldiers
What is the Gettysburg Address?
elected president of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Places where Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Where is Ford's Theatre?
battle which became the turning point of the war
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
allowed Kansas to join the Union as a slave state
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
person who believed the practice of slavery should be abolished
What is an abolitionist?
founded on the belief that slavery should not be allowed in the US territories
What is the Democratic Party?
The first state to secede from the Union
Where is South Carolina?
battle for control of the Mississippi River
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
Outlawed slavery in the United States
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
year the Civil War began - year the Civil War ended
When is 1861-1865?
most remembered Confederate soldier at Bull run
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
Where is Charleston, South Carolina?
battle with greatest loss of life in one day
What is the Battle of Antietam?
law that ended the practice of bringing enslaved people to America to be sold
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade Act?
sixteenth president of the United States
Who is Abraham Lincoln?