People
President of the Union states and was determined to end slavery. Gave the 1864 State of the Union address.
Abraham Lincoln
The first event that started the Civil War in 1861. It took place in South Carolina.
Fort Sumter
These are people who wanted to abolish slavery. They saw it wrong and wanted to end slavery.
Abolistionist
What cash crop was important to the South?
Cotton
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Abraham Lincoln (The Gettysburg Address)
Famous abolitionist who escaped slavery. He taught himself how to read and write.
Frederick Douglas
The first battle of the war. This happened in 1861 in Washington D.C.
The battle of Bull Run
A group of political bodies, such as states, that have joined together for a common purpose.
A Union
Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
Kansas Nebraska Act
"I can not fight against my birth place!"
Robert E. Lee
President of the Confederate states and supported state rights. He believed that slavery was necessary.
Jefferson Davis
This battle is called "the bloodiest day of the Civil War"
The battle of Antietam
This amendment gave freedom to people who were enslaved, but it did not give them the same rights as other Americans.
13th Amendment
This decision stated, "If you are an African American you were not considered a citizen"
The Dred Scott Decision
“I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided.”
Abraham Lincoln
Supported state rights and believed that states should make their own decisions about slavery. He ran against Abraham Lincoln for the presidency.
Stephen A. Douglas
This was the most important war for the North. The confederates couldn't recover from this battle and this lead to the end of the Civil War.
Battle of Gettysburg
This freed all salves in states that were still in rebellion.
Emancipation Proclamation
Gave territories the right to decide for themselves weather they wanted to be a free or slave state.
Compromise of 1850
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
Harriet Tubman
Who was the charge of the Union army? (North)
Who led the Confederate army? (South)
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada.
Underground Railroad
This was the primary economy of the North.
Industry
Africans were brought to the U.S. against their will and sold into slavery. Plantation owners bought the African captives.
Slave Auctions
“I enter upon the duties of the office to which I have been chosen with the hope that the beginning of our career as a Confederacy..."
Jefferson Davis (First Inaugural Address)