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The person who sued for their freedom and lost. North refused to follow laws about this after

Dredd Scott

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Time period where the midwest was fighting over slavery pre-Civil War

Bleeding Kansas

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First battle of the Civil War

First Battle of Bull Run
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John Brown raided this place before the Civil War and freed slaves/killed slavers

Harpers Ferry

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The term used to described Sherman's destruction of the South

March to the Sea

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Most famous conductor on Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

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Law that said slaves had to be returned to their owners

Fugitive Slave Act
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Battle that shares its name with the Hebrew word for Peace

Shiloh

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The bloodiest battle of the Civil War

Gettysburg

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Walt Whitman published this famous poem about Lincoln after his death

O Captain, My Captain

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President of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis

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Election year that Lincoln won presidency

1860

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The battle where Stonewall Jackson got his nickname

First Battle of Bull Run

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The place where the first attack of the Confederates  that "started" the Civil War

Fort Sumter

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This person was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield"

Clara Barton

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Union general from Massachusetts

Hooker

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First state to secede from USA

South Carolina

400

The single bloodiest day in the Civil War was during this battle

Antietam

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The Emancipation Proclamation was published after this battle

Antietam

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The Latin term John Wilkes Booth yelled after killing Lincoln

Sic Semper Tyrannus

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Confederate leader who ordered famous charge at Gettysburg

Pickett

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Term used for state's/populations ability to decide what to do with slavery, not federal government

Popular Sovereignty

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This battle was Lee's "perfect" battle plan

Chancellorsville

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The final battle of the Civil War. Lee surrendered his army after this.

Appomattox Courthouse

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The play Abraham Lincoln was seeing the night he was assassinated

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