Important People
Man elected President in 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Site of first battle between North and South
Fort Sumter
To settle the dispute over land gained from Mexico, this legislation admitted California as a free state but included a strict new Fugitive Slave Act.
Compromise of 1850
First Southern State to leave the Union
South Carolina
Withdrawal of states from the Union
Secession
African-American man who had his case heard by the Supreme Court?
Dred Scott
Site of southern surrender, ending the Civil War
Appomattox Courthouse
This Act, championed by Stephen Douglas, overturned the Missouri Compromise by allowing "popular sovereignty" to determine the status of slavery in new territories.
Kansas Nebraska Act
While the North became increasingly urban and industrial, this broad sector—specifically the production of cotton — formed the entire backbone of the Southern economy by the mid-1800s.
Agriculture
Nickname for Kansas in the period before the war
Bleeding Kansas
Assassin of President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Town where Lincoln gave a famous speech at the dedication of a cemetery
Battle of Gettysburg
These two Illinois politicians engaged in seven legendary face-to-face meetings while competing for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln
This election finally forced southern states to cede from the Union
Election of 1860
Executive order that freed the slaves in rebel territory
Emancipation Proclamation
Man who led an attack on Harper's Ferry to get guns for a slave uprising.
John Brown
Battle that gave the Union victory and control of the Mississippi river
Battle of Vicksburg
In this 1857 Supreme Court ruling, Chief Justice Roger Taney declared that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
Dred Scott decision
New nation formed by the Southern states
Confederacy
Idea that the people in the area of the Mexican Cession should vote to decide whether their state would be slave or free
Popular Sovereignty
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
First major land battle of the Civil War
Battle of Bull Run / Manassas
In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown led a raid on a federal armory in this Virginia town, hoping to spark a massive slave insurrection.
Harper's Ferry
Name of the compromise created by a Kentucky Senator to appease the South
Crittenden Compromise
Man who recaptured Harper's Ferry and arrested John Brown
Robert E. Lee