Important People
He gave the Gettysburg address and the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Placing the needs of one section of the country over the needs of the nation.
What is Sectionalism?
Invented in France, this new bullet was more accurate and increase fatalities during the Civil War.
What is the Minie Ball?
The Confederate Army attack on this Union fort started the Civil War.
The Union surrendered to the South.
What is Fort Sumpter?
This group of Congressmen and politicians believed blacks were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites.
They also believed that the Confederate leaders should be punished for their roles in the Civil War.
Who are the Radical Republicans
This organization was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
He ran and won against Lincoln for the Illinois senate; and then he ran and lost to Lincoln in the election of 1860.
Who is Stephen Douglas
An effort by Congress to defuse sectional and political rivalries.
Established Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
Established the 36° 30' parallel, dividing the Louisiana Territory into north= free and south= slave for future/new states.
What is the Missouri Compromise (1820)?
Although its not a new invention, the Civil War was the first war this transportation technology proved vital.
What is the Railroad?
The first major land battle of the American Civil War.
The Confederate victory gave the South a surge of confidence and shocked many in the North, who realized the war would not be won as easily as they had hoped.
What is Bull Run?
A minister who, in 1870, became the first African-American United States senator, representing the state of Mississippi.
Who is Hiram Revels?
This era was the period from 1863 to 1877 in American history. It was a significant chapter in the history of American civil rights
What is Reconstruction?
He was the president of the Confederate States.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Admitted California as a free state.
Utah & New Mexico would decide slave status by popular sovereignty.
Created the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Invented by Samuel F. B. Morse in 1844, this new technology revolutionized communication to the battlefield.
What is the Telegraph?
A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln (November 19, 1863) at the dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
An enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters
Who is Dred Scott?
This group of people lived in the south and supported Reconstruction and the Radical Republicans.
Who are carpetbaggers and scalawags?
Her book titled "Uncle Tom's Cabin" motivated abolitionists to take greater action to end slaver.
When they met, President Lincoln said to her “So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this Great War?”
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The belief that the United States was destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Civil War was the first war to be extensively visually documented.
What is Photography?
President Abraham Lincoln issued this January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody war.
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states, Canada and Nova Scotia with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
What is the Underground Railroad?
These two amendments were passed after the Civil War.
The first gave former slaves citizenship and the next protected citizens right to vote.
What were the 14th and 15th Amendments?
Without training or experience, she brought first-aid to the battlefield during the Civil War.
After the war she eventually founded the Red Cross (a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education.)
Who is Clara Barton?
Passed in 1854, This Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
These two new territories would decide slave status by popular sovereignty in addition to Utah and New Mexico.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854?)
The vast number of soldiers and civilians who died during the Civil War led to a boom in the funeral industry and this process by which a body is preserved.
What is Embalming?
From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this mission was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
Sherman's soldiers practiced this type of war fare.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea and total war?
An American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
A form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
What is sharecropping?