The Divisive Politics of Slavery
This term applies to when a state wants to withdrawal from the Union
secession
The first step in the Civil War was the capturing of this on an island in Charleston harbor.
Fort Sumter
Abraham's most famous speech delivered in Pennsylvania
Gettysburg Address
This was established by Congress to provide food, clothing, hospitals, legal protection and education for former slaves and poor whites in the South in 1865
Freedmen's Bureau
This is the term for a draft that forced men to serve in the army
conscription
A system of escape routes utilized by fugitive slaves
Underground Railroad
On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued this addressing freeing slaves in the Confederate States
The Emancipation Proclamation
He assassinated Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre
John Wilkes Booth
White Southerners who joined the Republican party many of which were small farmers who didn't want wealthy planters to regain power
scalawags
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beacher Stowe
He was a slave, who after moving with his owner to Illinois, appealled to the Supreme Court for his freedom on the grounds of living in a free state.
Dred Scott
This successful General, rose swiftly in prominence and eventually lead the Union Army
Ulysses S. Grant
In 1864, this Union General began his march southeast through Georgia to the sea, creating a wide path of destruction.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Northerners who moved down south after the war.
Carpetbaggers
She was a Union army nurse who founded the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
She was a former slave who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
He was the prominent General of the South taking over command of the Confederate Army after his predecessor was wounded.
Robert E. Lee
This is where Robert E. Lee formally surrendered to Ulyssess S. Grant, ending the Civil War
Appomattox Court House
He was a President who was impeached for blocking Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
a system where landowners divided their land and assigned each head of household a few acres
sharecropping
In February 1861, the Southern States broke away from the Union and formed this
Confederacy
The bloodiest single day battle in American History, killing 26,000 soldiers, took place here
Antietam
This was ratified as part of the US Constitution at the end of 1865 officially ending slavery
The 13th Amendment
The first African American senator
Hiram Revels
Radical Republicans introduced this which stated that no one can be kept from voting because of race, color or previous condition of servitude
The 15th Amendment