Important People of the Civil War
This Conductor was know for the Underground Railroad and helping many enslaved people escape to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
This was a major goal of the North
Blockade (Blocking) Southern ports
Under popular sovereignty who would decide on whether to permit slavery in a new territory.
People living in the territory
Stopped the Confederate Army from advancing North.
Battle of Antietam
Both North and South paid for the war partly by doing this.
Borrowing money
Confederate States of America President
Jefferson Davis
The Union wanted to control this river to split the Confederacy.
Mississippi River
This Supreme Court Case ruled that Congress could not ban slavery, enslaved people were not free just because they escaped, and the 5th Amendment protected the practice of Slavery.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This battle had the highest number of casualties in one day.
Battle of Antietam
Both sides also raised this to pay for the war.
Raising Taxes
Abolitionist from "The Liberator" newspaper who called for an immediate end to slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison
The Union wanted support from these two European nations.
Great Britain and France.
Republicans in 1860 promised to do this about slavery.
Stop the spread of slavery into territories.
This proclamation strengthened the Union's moral cause.
Emancipation Proclamation
Both sides printed this to help the war.
Money
This abolitionist led an attempt to take over a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
John Brown
Why did Lincoln contend that losing Kentucky could lead to the Union losing the war?
Kentucky was a crucial border state and other border states would follow and join the Confederacy.
The issue Lincoln referred to as "momentous" could lead to civil war.
Southern states seceding from the Union and maintain possession of federal property in the South.
By 1864, Union forces gained control of this major river.
Mississippi River
African American Soldiers faced this treatment from some white soldiers.
Resentment
First female Army Surgeon and who later receive the Medal of Honor.
Mary Edwards Walker
What was the North's strategy as the Civil War began?
Capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.
The election of 1856 showed growing support for this policy.
Banning slavery in the territories.
This policy allowed African Americans to serve in the Union military.
Emancipation Proclamation
This group strongly supported the Union after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abolitionists.