People
William Tecumseh Sherman
Made president of the Confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
Dred Scott v. Sanford - how did the supreme court rule?
Scott was still a slave because slaves were property that Congress could not constitutionally seize and make free.
Military commander sent to stop the raid at Harper's Ferry
Robert E. Lee
1854
Formation of the Republican Party
Earned the nickname "Stonewall"
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Bill
Stephen A. Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act - how did the results shine a light on the shortcomings of popular sovereignty? What was the conflict there dubbed?
Kansas became a battleground between abolitionists and proslavery invaders; Bleeding Kansas
Turning point of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
1860
Republicans win their first election
The actor who assasinated President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Proposed the Compromise of 1850 (Known as "the great compromiser")
Henry Clay
What was declared officially in January 1863.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Harriet Beecher Stowe's book that portrayed the dreadful abuses of slave life.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
April 12, 1861
Fort Sumpter is attacked; Civil War begins
Best known leader of the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
President who attempted to buy Cuba
Franklin Pierce
This abolished slavery permanently from the United States
The 13th Amendment
Slavery effects on Southern industrialism?
Slavery forced wages down, causing factor workers to seek employment in the North.
July, 1863
Battle of Gettysburg
Abolitionist who attacked a settlement at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
John Brown
This politician stated he did not intend to interfere with slavery in the places where it already existed.
President Lincoln, in his first inaugural address
This declared that if Spain refused to sell Cuba, the United States would be justified in seizing the island from Spain
The Ostend Manifesto
Published The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
April 9, 1865
Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House