Taco
1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the war with mexico
Wilmot Proviso
Supreme court case in which a slave sued for his freedom
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Union general who won the battles in the west
Ulysses S. Grant
Battle in Pennslvania when union forces stopped a confederate invasion of the North
Battle of Gettysburg
It divided the country into free and slave regions along the 36°30′ parallel.
Missouri Compromise of 1820
series of laws intended to settle the major disagrement between free states and slave states
Compromise of 1850
First President of the confederate staes
Jefferson Davis
Battle in Maryland that ended Lee's first invasion of the North
Battle of Antietam
the surrounding of the city of Vicksburg by Union forces
Siege of Vicksburg
A leader of a slave rebellion in 1831.
Nat Turner
1850 law meant to help slave holders recapture their runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
Confederate general and commander of the confederate army
Robert E. Lee
Document issued by Lincoln that declared alll slaves in confederate staes were free
Emancipation Proclamation
Union general Sherman's destructive march across Georgia
Sherman's March to the sea
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gave the right to citizen in Nebraska and Kansas to decide wether to llow slavery
Kansas Nebraska Act
Union strategy to defeate the confedrate army by surrounding them
Anaconda Plan
Northern democrates who favored peace with the south
Copperheads
Constitutional amendment that ended slavery
Thirteenth Amendment
The author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Stephen Douglas
Federal arsenal in vigina that was attacked during an anti slavery revolt
Harpers Ferry
Confederate general at Bull Run
Thomas J. Jackson
Civil War nurse who later founded the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Amendment to the constituion that states that any person born in the US is a citizen
Fourteenth Amendment
The right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
15th Amendment