People
Wrote a book about his life as a slave
Fredrick Douglass
Turning point of the War
Battle of Gettysburg
Political Party that supported slave ownership
Democratic
First Republican President
Abraham Lincoln
Year the Civil started AND ended
1861 & 1865
President of the Confederate states
Jefferson Davis
Battle between two ironclads
Merrimack vs. Monitor
The capital of the Confederate States of America
Richmond, Virginia
Led the Confederate Army during the Civil War
Robert E. Lee
Secret routes leading to free the Northern States and Canada
Underground Railroad
Nicknamed "Stonewall"
Thomas Jackson
First shots of the Civil War were fired at
Fort Sumter
Eleven states that withdrew from the Union to form their own country
Confederate States of America
Man that assassinated President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed this
Slavery
Personally led over seventy people on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
More soldiers died in one day during the Battle of __________ than on any other day of the Civil War
Antietam
The first Southern State to secede from the Union
South Carolina
Nicknamed "Unconditional Surrender"
Ulysses S. Grant
A speech was given by President Lincoln that honors the fallen soldiers on both sides of the war
Gettysburg Address
Slave that brought an important case to the Supreme Court
Dred Scott (Dred Scott Decision)
Battle of Vicksburg
Confederates made an ironclad ship called
Merrimack
Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
document issued by President Lincoln declaring the freedom of all slaves in the states that left the Union
Emancipation Proclamation