Causes of the Civil War
This was passed in 1820 to maintain the balance of free and slave states.
The Missouri Compromise
Won the presidential election of 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
The Union army gained control of the Mississippi River after this battle.
Vicksburg
Winfield Scott's strategy at the beginning of the war.
Anaconda Plan
This terror organization was organized after the Civil War to intimidate African Americans and return whites to power in the South.
Ku Klux Klan
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe it exposed the harsh realities of slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Was the president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
This battle took place in the north and is famous for a speech that President Lincoln gave there.
Gettysburg
Lincoln's goal at the beginning of the war.
Preserve the Union
Created to provide schools and job training for freed slaves.
Freedmen's Bureau
This allowed people in the western part of the United States to choose whether they wanted slavery or not.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
He was a senator from Illinois who debated Lincoln in 1858 and later ran against him in 1860 for the presidency. Champion of popular sovereignty.
Stephen Douglas
First major battle between the Union and the Confederacy.
Bull Run
A military strategy that involves destroying the will and the ability of the enemy to fight.
Total War
An amendment that stated any person born in the United States enjoyed citizenship and equal rights.
14th amendment
This happened in 1859 at a federal arsenal in an attempt to free slaves and start a slave rebellion.
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
Civil War general who became popular after the Battle of Vicksburg and became the overall commander of Union forces. Later, he became president after the election of 1868.
US Grant
Bloodiest single day of the war. Afterwards, President Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation.
Antietam
The name of a slave state that stayed in the Union during the Civil War.
Border state
An amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
13th
This Supreme Court decision said that African Americans had no rights and could not be citizens.
Dred Scott decision
Became president after Lincoln's assassination.
Andrew Johnson
Where Lee surrendered to Grant, effectively ending the war.
Appomattox Courthouse
An act passed by Congress to challenge President Johnson's authority regarding Reconstruction.
Office of Tenure
The amendment that allowed black men to vote after the Civil War.
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