Important People
He was the President during the Civil War and his election in 1860 started the Secession Crisis
Abraham Lincoln
A secret network that helped slaves escape from their owners and reach free states. Harriet Tubman was a conductor.
Underground Railroad
An amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed shortly after the end of the war and abolished slavery forever
13th Amendment
The battle that marked the turning point of the Civil War and was a major Union victory
Gettysburg
An amendment to the Constitution that gave all male citizens the right to vote
15th Amendment
He believed in total war and led the "March to the Sea" from Atlanta to Savannah.
William T. Sherman
The name of the Act that admitted Missouri and Maine as states and banned the expansion of slavery in all American territory North of the 36o 30 Line
Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820)
An act declared by President Lincoln in 1863 to free all slaves in rebelling states (The Confederacy) and changed the goal of the war to ending slavery
Emancipation Proclamation
The fort that was attacked by South Carolina to start the Civil War
Fort Sumter
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that take civil rights from and force segregation on African Americans
Union General and eventual leader of the Union Army. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to him at Appottomax Court House, Virginia.
Ulysses S. Grant
This war helped to complete the American vision of a nation that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean as a result of the land conquered
Mexican-American War
Union strategy for defeating the Confederacy by “squeezing” them with a naval blockade
Anaconda Plan
Where General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army
Appomattox Court House
The name of the group that pushed for harsher Reconstruction policies and sought to punish the South for rebelling
Radical Republicans
The former slave who attempted to sue for his freedom in the Supreme Court.
Dred Scott
The idea that the people in a territory should vote on whether or not slavery should be allowed in their territory. Used in the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Popular Sovereignty
Name two advantages that the North had during the war
Money, Trains, Weapons, Ships, Factories, Manpower
The name for the violence before the Civil War that saw pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces fighting for control of Kansas
"Bleeding" Kansas
This term describes Northerners who moved South after the Civil War to help support Reconstruction policies and supported federal organizations like the Freedmen's Bureau
Carpetbaggers
The President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Who wrote the famous book that exposed the cruelties of slavery and what was the book called?
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Name one advantage that the South had during the war
More experienced soldiers, Better generals, Fighting the war defensively
A major Union victory under General Grant in the West that helped to cut Confederate access to the Mississippi River
Vicksburg
This combination of practices created a system of almost legalized slavery following the Civil War
Sharecropping and Debt Peonage