Causes
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
an agreement in Congress that established a physical line on a map to show
where slavery was and was not allowed in America,
Dred Scott v. Sanford Case
A landmark court case in which the supreme essentially ruled that if you are/were a slave
then the law does not allow you to sue for your freedom or rights.
Frederick Douglas
A former slave who became a famous abolitionist and author who helped the Union government realize the evils of slavery
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War
Battle of First Bull run
The first battle of the Civil War,
The Compromise of 1850
an agreement in Congress that kept the United States of America from separating into two separate countries.
Bleeding Kansas
A war between residents of Kansas and Missouri over the right for states to decide for themselves if slavery should or shouldn’t be allowed.
Harriet Tubman
A former slave who became a famous abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor who helped slaves run away from slavery
John Brown
Northern abolitionist who fought in the Bleeding Kansas war and ultimately starts the Civil War with his Raid on Harper’s Ferry
Battle of Shiloh
The first major victory for the Union,
The Fugitive Slave Act
an agreement in congress that allowed for runaway slaves to be returned to their southern plantations if caught in a free-state or territory.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
A book written by Northern abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 to show the horrors of Southern slavery,
Sojourner Truth
A former slave who became a famous abolitionist and women’s rights advocate who spoke to groups in the Northern states to show how evil slavery was
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Union general who helped end the Civil War by destroying the States of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina
Battle of Antietam
The single bloodiest day in American History, this battle proved that the Union could compete with the Confederacy on the battlefield
Kansas Nebraska Act
This act allowed both territories the chance to vote on their own slave status.
The Raid on Harper’s Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown wanted to attack southern farms, arm the slaves so they could kill their masters and then join his army as they went to the next farm down the road.
John Wilkes Booth
Southern sympathizer who assassinated President Lincoln at the end of the Civil War
General Philip Sheridan
Union general who helped end the Civil War by destroying the states of Virginia (most notably the Shenandoah Valley) and Tennessee
Battle of Gettysburg
The single bloodiest battle in American history, this is the turning point of the war,
Underground Railroad
A hidden network of escape routes that runaway slaves could take out of the southern states to reach Canada where slavery was officially banned.
The Assault on Fort Sumter
To prove that the Confederate States had in fact left the United States of America, they raise an army and show their military readiness by attacking a Union base in Charleston Harbor, SC
Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States of America, he kept the border states a part of the USA thus creating a buffer zone between the free North and slave South
General Robert E. Lee
Main general of the Confederacy for most of the war
The Siege of Vicksburg
– This battle used medieval tactics to control the Mississippi River,