Events Leading to the Civil War
This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, encouraged people to join the abolition movement.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
I was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Often cited a major turning point of the War in the East, the Union victory ensured that the South would never invade Northern land again.
Gettysburg
This Civil War amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection.
14th Amendment
This was the "king" of the cash crops in the South during the Antebellum Era.
Cotton
This act, passed on May 30, 1854, decided that popular sovereignty would decide slavery in two midwestern territories, leading to a bloody summer.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
I am one of the many generals of the Union Army, and am famous for my belief in total war. I am also remembered for a presidency plagued with corruption.
Ulysses S. Grant
This was the first official battle of the Civil War, and served as a major wake-up call to the shocked Union after their defeat.
Bull Run
This act divided the South into five military districts and placed the South under military control.
The Military Reconstruction Act
Slaves in these states were not freed in Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation"
Border States
This infamous Supreme Court Decision decided that slaves would be considered property, and thus could not sue for their freedom.
Dredd Scott Decision.
I am the editor of the famous antislavery newspaper the "North Star"
Frederick Douglass
Fought in Maryland, this became known as the bloodiest day in the Civil War, and gave Lincoln the morale boost to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Antietam
This "truce" of sorts effectively ended Reconstruction in the South, 12 years after the end of the Civil War.
The Compromise of 1877 (Hayes-Tilden Compromise)
President Lincoln suspended this constitutional right to be made aware of the charges against you in court during the Civil War.
Habeas corpus
This state was the first state to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860, months before Lincoln's inauguration.
South Carolina
You may know me from my infamous "March to the Sea", which crushed Confederate civilian morale in Georgia in late 1864.
William Tecumseh Sherman
This fight between two ironclad ships made this the most significant naval battle in the Civil War.
Monitor vs. Merrimack
Whiskey Ring
During the Civil War, this was a famous all-black infantry, and even included the sons of Frederick Douglass.
54th Massachusetts Regiment
This was the final compromise proposed before the start of the Civil War, which proposed a constitutional amendment allowing slavery in western territories south of Missouri.
Crittenden Compromise
I was born Isabella Baumfree, but renamed myself this in 1843. I was an abolitionist as well as an active supporter of the women's rights movement.
Sojourner Truth
This is where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, bringing the Civil War to a close.
Appomattox Court House
President Andrew Johnson was impeached for violating this act, and was found not guilty by only one vote.
The Tenure of Office Act
Name the Lincoln speech where this quote may be found:
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds..."
Second Inaugural Address (1865)