Warfare
Major leader of the Confederate Army
Robert E. Lee
Set of speeches that brought Lincoln to national attention. These were done across Illinois for a political election.
Lincoln/Douglas Debates
The first president to be assassinated
Abraham Lincoln
Amendment ending slavery
The 13th Amendment
Law meant to find run away slaves in the north
Fugitive Slave Act
Farthest point the South pushed into the North
Gettysburg
The amendment that gave former slaves the right to vote
15th Amendment
The main leader of the Union forces toward the end of the war
Ulysses S Grant
Laws that restricted the rights of freed slaves.
Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws
This man tried to take a Federal Arsenal at at Harper's Ferry Virginia
John Brown
Town where Lee surrendered to Grant.
Appomattox Courthouse
Speech that honored ALL soldiers of the war. Wanted to make sure people didn't die for nothing.
Gettysburg Address
Who ran against Lincoln in 1858 and 1860. Part of the debates in Illinois
Stephan Douglas
The first major federally funded relief agency in the U.S.
Freedman's Bureau
Voting over the expansion of slavery led to the famous violent episode known as...
Bleeding Kansas
The name of the draft instated by the "Union" to draw more soldiers into the war
Conscription Act of 1863
The executive order given by Lincoln freeing the slaves.
Emancipation Proclamation
The man who succeeded Lincoln as president.
Andrew Johnson
Gave all American citizens rights that could not be taken away
The 14th Amendment
Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Where the first shots of the war fired.
Fort Sumter
Speech that set up the plan for Reconstruction publicly to the nation.
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Ran for the Southern Democrats in election of 1860
John Breckinridge
What law did Johnson break to get impeached?
The Tenure of Office Act
Famous court case that contributed to the Civil War and threatened the expansion of slavery
Dred Scott v. Sandford
aka: Dred Scott Case Decision