Slavery and Slaves
This term is used to name the trade routes of slaves from Africa to Europe and the Americas, shipping them across the Atlantic.
Atlantic Slave Trade
This fiction book told the horrors of the life of a slave, selling millions of copies in the North.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, the battle saw the victory of the Union on Day 3; also known as the turning point of the war.
Battle of Gettysburg
The winner of the presidential election of 1860 that led the Union during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
To vreak away from... South Carolina did this first to leave the United States and form the Confederacy.
Secede or Secession
This region of the US saw the most slaves arrive here due to the demand of plantation farming.
The South
Due to popular sovereignty and no way to check who votes, many people flocked to two territories in the Midwest to vote and killed opponents, giving this event the nickname...
Bleeding Kansas
These early battles of the Civil War saw the Confederacy win both, also the biggest victories for the South.
Battles of Bull Run
A West Point graduate known for his military expertise in multiple wars and led the Confederate army.
Robert E. Lee
This is the name for the group of states that left the US that jump-started the Civil War.
Confederacy
These chain of islands were the middle ground of the American slave trade; it saw 10+ million slaves arrive here during this time.
The Caribbean
John Brown led an abolitionist group here and took over a military armory, only to be executed 2 days later by Robert E. Lee's army.
Harper's Ferry
"The shot hear 'round the world" is the quote used for the Confederate attack on a South Carolina fort that started the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
The main general for the Union known for his victories against Robert E. Lee.
Ulysses S. Grant
The name for the speech President Lincoln gave to allow slaves to try and escape the South to join the Union war effort.
Emancipation Proclamation
This slave worked for a medical doctor that sued for his own freedom at the Supreme Court but lost.
Dred Scott
On the Senate Floor, this event was given its name because of a speech that was abrupted by a southern politician that beat up a Northern politician.
Charles Sumner's Caning
Union forces lost over 10,000 troops during their attempts to take over a fort that would give them control of the Mississippi River.
Siege at Vicksburg
Major abolitionist that led charges at both the Kansas territory and the raid at Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
The ability for states to vote on which type of state they want to become.
Popular Sovereignty
This act gave the US a stricter slave law that made any Northerner who helped slaves escape an outlaw, giving them jail time and/or fines.
Fugitive Slave Act
This election saw the landside victory of the Republican Candidate, leading to the secession of the South.
Election of 1860
This march was conducted by the Union Army that took the approach of "total war", burning whole cities to the ground over 60 miles in Georgia.
Sherman's March to the Sea
This is the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which showed many northerners the horrible conditions slaves were living in in the South.
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
This group was the most prominent all-black army during the Civil War on the Union side...
54th Massachusetts Regiment