Generals/Leaders
The Union's main general who allowed the Confederate officers to keep their swords and horses after they surrendered.
Ulysses S. Grant
Bloodiest single day battle of the war.
Antietam
A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
popular sovereignty
Republican candidate of 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
The Supreme Court ruled against this case in which a slave sued his owners to receive freedom.
Dred Scott
The confederacy's main general who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse.
Robert E. Lee
Which battle in the Northern Territory had a profound influence on the war and had the most casualties?
Gettysburg
military draft, "the draft," which required all young men to be ready for military or other service.
Conscription
Southern states based their economy on?
slavery
The principle that the federal government has only limited authority over each state.
State's rights
Captured and burned Atlanta, an important rail hub for the Confederacy. Was in charge of the fighting in the west.
William T. Sherman
The South won its first victory here. The battle was also known as the battle of Manassas?
Battle of Bull Run
an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that bans slavery throughout the nation
Thirteenth Amendment
What act in 1850 required Americans to help return runaway slaves to their owners?
Fugitive Slave Act
A person who opposed slavery and wanted to end it immediately.
abolitionist
Former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Who won the siege of Vicksburg?
Union
The reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War.
Reconstruction
After the election of 1860, seven states formed a new union called?
The Confederate States of America
Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, starting the...
Civil War
Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Who won the second battle of Bull Run?
Confederacy
White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest
Scalawag
An 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws.
Fourteenth Amendment
After the election of 1860, many states chose to __________ from the Union.
secede
Republican President who opposed slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
Who won the first battle of the Civil War?
The Confederate States of America
Congressmen who wanted to punish the South for the war; didn't get along with Johnson, Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after Civil War.
Radical Republicans
Who shot President Abraham Lincoln during a play at Ford's Theatre?
John Wilkes Booth
The first state to leave the Union was...
South Carolina
The first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress.
Hiram Revels
The constitutional amendment adopted in 1870 to extend suffrage to African Americans. Banned states from denying African Americans the right to vote.
Fifteenth Amendment
a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the South from slave to free.
Emancipation Proclamation
President of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
White supremacy organization that intimidated blacks out of their newly found liberties
Ku Klux Klan
Railroads, factories, and navy were advantages for the...
Union
Confederate General who stood "like a stone wall" during the fighting in Bull Run.
Thomas Jackson
Uncomplimentary nick-name for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War.
Carpetbagger
Confederate general who was the most famous and became the superintendent of West Point.
Robert E. Lee
Northern Democrat who ran for president in 1860 and was for keeping slavery in the states that wanted it.
Stephen Douglas