Famous Abolitionist
Conductor of the Underground Railroad, which led escaped slaves to freedom on the North
Harriet Tubman
This established the 36°30′ parallel line.Slavery would be allowed south of of the line. But north of that line, slavery would be forbidden
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Was president of the Union at the time of the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
The Attack on Union forces that initiated the Civil War
Ft. Sumter
During the Civil War this side had the advantage of larger populations
North
Loyalty to your region rather than your country
Sectionalism
John Brown
This compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act
The Compromise of 1850
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
The battle that led to the single bloodiest day in the Civil War
Battle of Antietam
First State to Secede from the Union
South Carolina
The countryside, where houses and farms are separated by lots of open land
Rural
Abolitionist who founded the antislavery newspaper, The North Star
Frederick Douglass
This compromise allowed Maine to enter as a free state and Missouri as a slave state
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Supreme court case ruled that slaves are not US citizens after this free slave sued for his and his families freedom.
Dred Scott
Turning point of the war where Lee lost 1/2 of his denfenses
Gettysburg
Side that had the advantage of fighting on their own terrain
Confederacy
To withdraw formally from federal union
Secede/ Session
Abolitionist who founded the antislavery newspaper, The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
This compromise allowed the people of Utah and New Mexico to decide the issue of slavery using popular sovereignty
Top general of the Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
Name of the war strategy used to suffocate the South and cut them off from weapons and supplies
Anaconda Plan
Issued by Lincoln this declared, “all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
Emancipation Proclamation
To free from restraint, control, or the power of another
Emancipation
Abolitionist who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavey using popular sovereignty. Which then to the event known as Bleeding Kansas.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Top General for the Union
Ulysses S. Grant
This battle divided the Confederacy in half and Union forces took control of the Mississippi River
Battle of Vicksburg
Location of the surrender and end of the war
Appomattox Courthouse
The government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union
Confederacy