People & Leaders
This president led the United States during the Civil War and gave the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This system, where people could own other people, was one main cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
This April 1861 attack on a federal fort in South Carolina is often considered the start of the Civil War.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
After the Civil War ended in 1865, this was one result: slavery was ended throughout the United States by this amendment.
What is the 13th Amendment?
He was the top general for the Confederacy and later became a famous American figure; he led the Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This term means states making their own choices and was used by Southern states who wanted to make their own laws, including about slavery.
What is states' rights?
This 1863 battle in Pennsylvania is known as the turning point of the war and had the largest number of casualties.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This period after the war focused on bringing the Southern states back into the United States and rebuilding the South.
What is Reconstruction?
This African American abolitionist, speaker, and writer escaped from slavery and became a leader for freedom and equality.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This 1860 event led Southern states to leave the Union because they feared the new national government would ban slavery.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This January 1, 1863 document declared that enslaved people in Confederate states were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment, passed to give citizenship to people born in the United States (including formerly enslaved people), is the ______ Amendment.
What is the 14th Amendment?
She was a famous nurse who organized care for wounded Union soldiers and later founded a nursing school.
Who is Clara Barton?
This law required people to return escaped enslaved people to their owners and angered many in the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This general led a long march of destruction through the South, helping to weaken Confederate ability to fight.
Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman? / What is Sherman's March to the Sea
This amendment gave voting rights to men regardless of race (but not yet women); it aimed to protect the voting rights of formerly enslaved men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This senator from Massachusetts was a strong opponent of slavery and gave fiery speeches before and during the war; he later became a leading voice for civil rights.
Who is Charles Sumner?
This violent event in Kansas showed how disagreements over slavery led to fighting even before the Civil War began.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This speech, given after the Battle of Gettysburg, reminded Americans about the meaning of the nation and equality.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
After Reconstruction ended, many Southern states passed laws that separated Black and White people and limited rights; these were called this.
What are Jim Crow laws or segregation laws?