Causes
This law angered Northerners because they now had to help recapture runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This was a system of paths used to help slaves reach freedom in the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This was where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Fort Sumter
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
The Gettysburg Address
This man tried to sue for his freedom and lost because the Supreme Court rules that he was not a citizen and could not legally sue.
Who was Dred Scott?
This was the term given to the people who opposed slavery.
Who are abolitionists?
The single bloodiest day of the Civil War was at the Battle of ________?
Antietam
Who was the main Confederate general?
Robert E. Lee
This was the name of the plan to put in place a naval blockade to prevent supplies from reaching the South
Anaconda Plan
The violent attack on this Massachusetts senator showed that the South was willing to use violence on the issue of slavery.
Who is Charles Sumner?
Name ONE abolitionist we learned about in class.
William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Grimke, Nat Turner, John Brown
This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
Gettysburg
Who was the main Union general?
Ulysses S. Grant
I killed President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
What event prompted South Carolina to secede from the Union?
The Presidential Election of Abraham Lincoln
Who was Harriet Tubman?
A slave who escaped using the Underground Railroad and returned multiple times to help other slaves escape.
This battle led to the Union gaining control of the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
He led his troops from Atlanta to Savannah destroying towns in his path.
General Sherman
This was where the Civil War ended.
Appomattox Courthouse
The formation of this political party angered the South because they were opposed to slavery.
This was the amendment that made slavery illegal.
After a friendly fire incident during this battle Stonewall Jackson died.
Chancellorsville
She is the founder of the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Explain ONE reason why the Union won the war.
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