Causes of the War
President Polk ordered the invasion of this country to expand the territory available for expansion and slavery
What is Mexico
This famous battle is the major turning point of the Civil War
What is Gettysburg
President of the United States during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln issued this on January 1st 1863 - it did not have a major effect on slavery
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment
This compromise called for a line to be drawn along the 36 degree line separating free states and slave states
What is the Missouri Compromise
First shots of the civil war are fired here.
What is Fort Sumter
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War
Who is Jefferson Davis
Another name for leaving the country/union
What is secession
This supreme court case in 1857 ruled that slaves were property
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
Was a system of escape routes for runaway slaves leading from the south to the north
What is the Underground Railroad
John Brown and his sons fought in this preview of the Civil War
What is Bleeding Kansas
The supreme commander of the Confederate army during the civil war
Who is Robert E. Lee
Lincoln was the first president elected from this "old" party
What is the Republican Party (or "Grand Old Party")
This law was used as to recruit people to the abolitionist cause in the 1850's
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
This compromise, organized by Stephen Douglas, repealed the Missouri Compromise
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is Baltimore?
He shot and killed Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The term for holding a vote on whether or not to allow slavery
What is Popular Sovereignty
What is conviction of a crime?
Slave revolts led to stronger and more violent versions of what laws
What are slave codes or black codes
General Sherman's "March to the Sea" destroyed farmland and houses from Atlanta to Savannah in this Southern state
What is Georgia?
Who are Sarah and Angelina Grimke?
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry and the Dred Scott ruling are two issues that divided the country on this basis
What is sectional or sectionalism
This amendment made all exslaves citizens of the US
What is the 14th amendment