An attempt to balance the power in the Senate between free and slave states.
The Compromise of 1850
First Republican American president
Abraham Lincoln
First major battle won by the Confederacy
First Battle of Bull Run
Abraham Lincoln's important speech to honor fallen soldiers
Gettysburg Address
The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed _________ in the United States.
Slavery
This required Northern states to return escaped slaves to the South.
Fugitive Slave Act
First shots of Civil War fired here
Fort Sumter
Confederate general most remembered for the First Battle of Bull Run
Stonewall Jackson
Battle which was the turning point of the war.
Battle of Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by ______________________.
John Wilkes Booth
This made slavery legal in the United States Territories.
Confederate capital moved here from Alabama
Richmond, Virginia
Iron clad ship for the Confederacy
Merrimack
Ironclad ship for the Union
Monitor
President and Mrs. Lincoln attended a play here on the night Lincoln was assassinated.
Ford's Theatre
This divided a section of western land into one slave state and one free state.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
president of Confederate States
Jefferson Davis
Battle in which more soldiers died than any other
Battle of Antietam
Document which declared freedom for slaves in Southern states
Emancipation Proclamation
General Robert E. Lee surrendered to this General on April 9, 1865.
U.S. Grant
This ended the practice of bringing enslaved people to America to be sold.
Transatlantic Slave Trade Act
Who led the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
Battle in which the Union gained control of the Mississippi River
Battle of Vicksburg
This is where the Confederate Army surrendered.
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
This general of the Union army ordered his troops to urn or destroy everything they found on their march to the sea.
William T. Sherman