Presidents
Elected in 1860
First major battle of the Civil War
Battle of Bull Run/ Battle of Manassas
Ratio of population advantage the North had over the South.
~3:1 (22mil:7mil)
Antietam
Gettysburg
Antietam
The Kansas Nebraska Act nullified which compromise.
Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820)
Watched seven states secede from the Union.
James Buchanan
The the two vessels involved in the "clash of the ironclads."
Monitor and Merrimack/ CSS Virginia
The South stopped exporting this to show Europe how reliant it was on it.
Cotton
Vicksburg
Appomattox
Vicksburg
Broke the Compromise of 1850 into separate parts to get it passed.
Stephen Douglas
Expansionist President who brought Texas in as a state.
James Polk.
Hero of the Battle of Gettysburg at Little Round Top.
Joshua Chamberlain.
The opening shots of the Civil War were fired at this fort in Charleston.
Fort Sumter
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg
Emancipation Proclamation
The Compromise of 1850 introduced this idea that let the people decide the slavery issue.
Popular Sovereignty
Led US troops up to the Rio Grande to provoke the Mexican-American War.
Zachary Taylor
Battle that gained the Union control of the Mississippi River and separated the east and west of the Confederacy.
Battle of Vicksburg
The approximate number of casualties in the Civil War
602,000 - 750,000
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 prohibited the slave trade here.
Washington, DC
Signed the compromise of 1850 into law.
Millard Fillmore
Place where Lee surrendered the Army of Virginia to Grant.
Appomattox
This battle was a turning point in the war - because of what Lincoln did afterwards.
Antietam
Lincoln's Inauguration
Secession of South Carolina
Secession of South Carolina
Originator of the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay