Battles
This battle began the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
He was the President of the Union during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This is where Lee surrendered to Grant in 1865.
Appomattox Court House
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
This nickname was given to Northern soldiers.
Yankees
This battle is considered the turning point of the war.
Gettysburg
He served as President of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
This act allowed settlers in the territories to vote on slavery using popular sovereignty.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
In this speech, Lincoln redefined the purpose of the war as preserving the Union and ending slavery.
Gettysburg Address
This nickname was given to Southern soldiers.
Confederates (or Rebels)
This victory gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy.
Vicksburg
This Union general accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox
Ulysses S. Grant
Control of this river was important because it split the Confederacy in two.
Mississippi River
In this speech, Lincoln explained why the Union must be preserved at the start of his presidency.
Lincoln’s 1st Inaugural Address
This amendment, passed after the Civil War, officially abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
This was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War
Antietam
This Confederate general surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
Robert E. Lee
This city served as the capital of the Confederacy.
Richmond
This speech focused on healing and reconciliation near the end of the war.
Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address
This famous abolitionist helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
This was the first major battle of the Civil War, also called First Manassas
Bull Run (Manassas)
This Supreme Court case increased sectional tension by ruling that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This city was the capital of the Union.
Washington, D.C.
This speech outlined the Confederacy’s position at the start of the war.
Davis’s Inaugural Address
This Union general was known for his “March to the Sea” through Georgia.
William Tecumseh Sherman