People of Action
The violent abolitionist who organized the Bleeding Kansas raid.
John Brown
The location where the first Confederate cannon shots were fired.
Fort Sumter
The Southern economy was built on this "backbone."
Farming/Agriculture
This amendment abolished slavery throughout the entire country.
13th Amendment
To take a place or take over land.
Occupy
He became the first African American to command a U.S. naval ship.
Robert Smalls
This 1856 event showed political violence over slavery in Congress.
Caning of Charles Sumner
General Winfield Scott’s strategic plan for the Union.
Anaconda Plan
The document stating SC was no longer part of the United States.
Ordinance of Secession
A person who chooses to do something.
Volunteer
She cared for soldiers in the Capitol and traveled to battles to help.
Clara Barton
The first self-governed town for freed people on Hilton Head Island.
Mitchelville
This experimental submarine sank twice in Charleston Harbor.
The Hunley
The Court ruled in this case that Black people could not be citizens.
Dred Scott case
A required enrollment in the military, or a draft.
Conscription
He gave speeches on freedom and encouraged Black men to join the army.
Frederick Douglass
This holiday celebrates the achievements of African Americans.
Juneteenth
He marched to Columbia, causing millions in damage to goods.
General William T. Sherman
This Act allowed people in territories to decide on slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This word means "unfriendly."
Hostile
President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
Where Lincoln spoke of sacrifices made by soldiers on both sides.
Gettysburg
The crop the South hoped would bring them foreign aid.
Cotton
It freed enslaved people in states in rebellion against the Union.
Emancipation Proclamation
A way of doing something.
Strategy