Leading Events
The first state to secede
South Carolina
The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad was
Harriett Tubman
LIncoln won the presidential election of
1860
First conflict of the Civil war-ony a horse was killed
Fort Sumter
John Wilkes Booth
This man helped to start the Republican with others from parties who disagreed with their own parties' views on slavery
Horace Greeley
This man believed he had been given a mission from God to end slavery
John Brown
This election made Lincoln a household name
Illinois Senate election of 1858
Antietam
This was the leader of the Union army at the end of the war
Ulysses S. Grant
This man was beaten by a cane on the Senate floor
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts
This woman wrote a book about the immorality of slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The first election in which Republicans had candidates was
1856
This was the only battle fought in the North
Gettysburg
Robert E. Lee
Personal Liberty Law
This man sued for his freedom, but lost because he was considered propertyh
Dred Scott
Who did not put Lincoln on the Ballot for the presidential election
All southern states
There were two battles during the war here
Bull Run Creek
The original commander of the Union Army
George McCllellan
Pottawatamie Creek
This runaway slave became a major face for the abolitionist cause
Frederick Douglass
This was the favored Republican candidate in 1860, but. his record worked against him
Wiliam Seward
This battle drew the western part of the Anaconda plan
Battle of Vicksburg
Led the charge across a field at Gettysburg (Confederate)
General Pickett