Events leading to War
1854; The act that called for the creation of these two new territories and stated that citizens in each territory decide whether slavery would be allowed through popular Sovereignty.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This battle that pitted Robert E. Lee against George Meade in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war?
The Battle of Gettysburg
This man commanded the Confederate Army during the war?
Robert E. Lee
This amendment abolished slavery of all people?
13th Amendment
White leader of radical abolitionist movement and founded The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states (Missouri) and free states (Maine)
Missouri Compromise
This battle in South Carolina, was the sight of the first shots fired in the Civil War?
Battle of Fort Sumter
This African American abolitionist, urged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight in the Union Army?
Frederick Douglass
After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South.
Radical Republicans
This former slave organized the only violent slave uprising in the US here in the state of Virginia?
Nat Turner
Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states in the Southwest US to determine slavery.
Compromise of 1850
At the end of this battle Robert E. Lee formally surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant?
Battle of Appomattox
This man commanded Union forces during the Civil War?
Ulysses S. Grant
States were prohibited from denying equal rights to any American under this amendment?
14 Amendment
What was a result of the election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States?
A. Missouri entered the Union as a slave state.
B. Southern States succeeded from the union
C. A constitutional amendment was added the freed the slaves.
B. South States succeeded from the Union.
A 1850 law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves. It allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders-
Fugitive Slave Act
After a Union victory at this bloody battle, Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle of Antietam
This actor assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Voting rights were guaranteed regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude" under this Amendment?
15th Amendment
This meeting was the first women's rights convention, demanding that women be given equality and the right to vote?
Seneca Falls Declaration
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel that inflamed Northern Abolitionist sentiment?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This man was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
This man was the first president to be impeached from office?
Andrew Johnson
This was Lincoln's reconstruction plan for after the Civil War. Written in 1863, it proclaimed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10% of its voters in the 1860 election pledged their allegiance to the U.S.
10 percent Plan
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War. "Jim Crow Laws"
The Black Codes