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According to modern Civil War historians, this issue surrounded almost every event leading up to the southern states seceding and is viewed as the primary cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery
This person was the President of the United States during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This battle which took place in Pennsylvania was the largest and bloodiest battle of the Civil War
What is Gettysburg
During the war, the North built miles of this to move people and goods faster to the front lines
What are Railroads
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
What is the 13th Amendment
This radical abolitionist was arrested and later executed for attempting to start an enslaved uprising at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, five years after his involvement in "Bleeding Kansas"
Who is John Brown
This person was the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia
Who is Robert E. Lee
This battle was one of the major turning points of the war, and help to sway public opinion to support Lincoln's bid for re-election.
What is the Battle of Atlanta
This was a form of nearly instant communication that was used by Lincoln to communicate with his generals on the front lines.
What is the telegraph
That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
What is the Gettysburg Address
This battle was the first battle of the Civil War, and the only victim was a horse
What is Fort Sumter
This person replaced George McClellan as commander of the Union Army
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
This unit was one of the first African-American units to see combat during the Civil War, most famously at the Battle of Battery Wagner outside of Charleston, South Carolina
Who is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment
This was the first armored ship developed by the US and the Confederacy and changed the way ships were built for the future
What are Ironclads
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
During Reconstruction, this labor system emerged across the South that many African-Americans indebted to landowners much like they were under slavery
What is Sharecropping
This general for the Union was known for his tactics of Total War
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman
Victory in this battle secured the Mississippi River for the Union for the rest of the war.
What is Vicksburg
This industry first appeared during the Civil War and changed how we documented war.
What is photography
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
What is Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Following this Civil War, this historical narrative emerged that portrayed the leaders of the South, such as Robert E. Lee, as heroes and the war as being fought over things such as "staters rights" and tariffs.
What is the "Lost Cause"
This person ran against Abraham Lincoln in the election of 1864
Who is George McClellan
This battle, while not considered a Union victory by some, allowed for Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
What is Antietam
Both the North and South extensively used this to help shape the moral and perspectives of the war effort
What is propaganda
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. [Abolitionists] were attempting to make things equal which the Creator had made unequal.
What is the Cornerstone Speech