Lincoln Assassination
April 14, 1865
The date Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
Color of the Union soldier uniforms?
blue
The first all black infantry.
54th Massachusetts Infantry
This law denied runaway slaves the right to a jury trial and required local law enforcement officials to assist in the arrest and recovery of fugitives.
Fugitive Slave Law
He was a religious man and a radical abolitionist. He wanted to seize the federal armory at Harpers Ferry so that he and his followers could free slaves from their plantations and build a liberation army that would travel throughout the South.
John Brown
April 15, 1865
The day Abraham Lincoln died
President of the United States of America during the Civil War.
Abe Lincoln
Four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln gave this speech?
Gettysburg Address
This Act provided each loyal state with land for public colleges
Morrill Act
He lived with his master in a free state and felt that he should be considered free.
Dred Scott
The location where Lincoln was shot
Ford’s Theater
Rebels
This proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.“
Emancipation Proclamation
This Act authorized construction of a cross-country railroad reaching California.
Railroad Act
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Location where Lincoln died.
The Petersen House
President of the Confederate States?
Jefferson Davis
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War was
The Battle of Gettsyburg
This Act granted 160 acres of free land in the West to any settler who lived on and improved the land for five years.
Homestead Act
He created the theory of popular sovereignty.
Stephen Douglas
The weapon used by John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Lincoln
Derringer
What was the first state to leave the Union after Lincoln won the election?
South Carolina
This battle was considered the start of the war.
Battle of Fort Sumter.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
13th Amendment
He assassinated President Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth