EVENTS THAT LED TO THE CIVIL WAR
Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that increased public opposition to slavery
What is the Uncle Tom's Cabin?
He was the last casualty of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Lincoln's order to free the slaves in 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
It was the most important and biggest cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
Amendment, in 1865, which abolished slavery.
Who is the 13th Amendment?
Included the admission of California as a free state & a stricter fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The bloodiest day of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Loyalty to one's region before the whole nation.
What is sectionalism?
Laws passed by Southern leaders to control their former slaves.
Who are the black codes?
Led to the secession of the Southern states in 1861.
What is the Election of 1860 (Lincoln's election)?
Union general at the end of the Civil War, he accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The battle in which the Union gained control of the Mississippi River & cut the Confederacy in half.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
Tax on imports to protect American manufacturers.
What are Protective Tariffs?
Amendment, in 1870, which gave former slaves the right to vote.
Who is the 15th Amendment?
Abolitionist who led the raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Led by Frederick Douglass & Harriet Tubman it was a movement to end slavery.
What is abolition?
Amendment, in 1867, which gave citizenship & civil rights to former slaves.
Who is the 14th Amendment?
It decided the issue of slavery in Kansas & Nebraska in 1854 (the will of the people).
What is popular sovereignty or Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Confederate general who surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant and ended the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
Argument that a state has the right to NOT enforce a federal law it considers unfair.
What is States' Rights?
Supreme Court ruling in 1856 that said that Blacks were not citizens, it was overruled by the 14th Amendment.
Who is the Dred Scott Decision?