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The ____________________ was a law that ended that practice of bringing enslaved people to America to be sold.
More soldiers died in one day during the Battle of _________ than on any other day of the Civil War.
Antietam
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at ____________.
Fort Sumter
Document issued by Lincoln declaring the freedom of all slaves in the states that had left the Union.
Emancipation Proclamation
President of the Confederate States
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln was the first _______________ president of the United States.
Republican
General ____________ led the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee
The _______________ was the turning point of the war.
Battle of Gettysburg
Secret routes leading to free Northern states and Canada.
Underground Railroad
wrote a book about his life as a slave
Frederick Douglas
John Wilkes Booth assassinated President __________ in Ford’s Theater.
Lincoln
Richmond, Virginia, became the capital of the ______________.
Confederate States of America
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by __________________.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Eleven states that withdrew from the Union to form their own country.
Confederate States of America
Nicknamed “Unconditional Surrender”
Ulysses S. Grant
The ________________ attempted to balance the power in the Senate between free and slave states.
The Civil War began in _______.
1861.
The ______________ was part of the Compromise of 1850.
Fugitive Slave Act
Political party founded on the belief that slavery should be not allowed in the United States territories.
Republican Party
Nicknamed “Stonewall”
Thomas Jackson
The Confederates made the ____________ into an ironclad ship.
Merrimack
The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed _________ in the United States.
Slavery
The first Southern state to secede from the Union was _____________.
South Carolina
Speech given by President Lincoln that honored fallen soldiers from both sides of the war.
Gettysburg Address
Slave who brought an important case to the Supreme Court
Dred Scott