People 1
Abraham Lincoln
Personally led over seventy people on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
The turning point of the war.
Battle of Gettysburg
Eleven states that withdrew from the Union to form their own country.
Confederate States of America
Secret routes leading to free Northern states and Canada.
Underground Railroad
Nicknamed "Unconditional Surrender"
Ulysses S. Grant
assassinated President Lincoln in Ford's Theatre.
John Wilkes Booth
Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Fort Sumter
Political party founded on the belief that slavery should not be allowed in the United States territories.
Republican Party
Outlawed slavery in the United States.
Thirteenth Amendment
President of the Confederate States.
Jefferson Davis
Led the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee
The first Southern states to secede from the Union.
South Carolina
Speech given by President Lincoln that honored fallen soldiers from both sides of the war.
Gettysburg Address
The ship the Confederates made into an ironclad ship.
Merrimack
Wrote a book about his life as a slave.
Frederick Douglass
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Became the capital of the Confederate States of America.
Richmond, Virginia
Fugitive Slave Act
Document issued by Lincoln declaring the freedom of all slaves in the states that had left the Union.
Emancipation Proclamation
Slave who brought an important case to the Supreme Court.
Dred Scott
Nicknamed "Stonewall"
Thomas Jackson
More soldiers died on one day here than on any other day in the Civil War.
Battle of Antietam
A law that ended the practice of bringing enslaved people to America to be sold.
Transatlantic Slave Act
Attempted to balance the power in the Senate between free and slave states.
Compromise of 1850