People and leaders
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the U.S.during the cival war.
Battle of Gettysburg
The battle's significance lies in its impact on Union victory and its role in halting Lee's invasion of the North.
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery
Underground Railroad
Escape network for enslaved people
Railroads
Critical for troop and supply movement
Ulysses S. Grant
Head Union general and later president.
Battle of Fort Sumter
First shots and battle of the cival war
Emancipation Proclamation
Freed slaves in Confederate states
Draft Riots of New york
Violent protests against conscription laws, racial tensions, and economic insecurity,
Telegraph
Messages sent from a distance using wires that revolutionized wartime communication
Robert E. Lee
Head Confederate general
Sherman’s March to the Sea
The total war campaign of General Sherman's effort to destroy resources and infrastructure throughout the Confederate South.
Secession
Southern states leaving the Union
Abolitionism
The movement to end slavery in the United States, led by activists, writers, and former enslaved people
Photography
Widely used during the Civil War to document battles, soldiers, and camp life.
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist, former slave, and Author
Battle of Antietam
Bloodiest single-day battle in American history. 23,000 casualties
Election of 1860
Lincoln’s win sparked secession
Contrabands
escaped enslaved people who sought refuge with Union forces.
Civil War Medicine
Primitive and often deadly practices that led to reforms in modern medicine.
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederacy
Anaconda Plan
Union strategy to blockade and divide the South
Fugitive Slave Act
law requiring the return of escaped enslaved people to their enslavers, even from free states.
Copperheads
Northern Democrats opposed to the war
Ironclads
New Armored warships that were used in Naval battles.