Slavery
This agricultural crop dominated the Southern economy and drove the high demand for enslaved labor?
Cotten
This city served as the primary capital of the Confederate States of America for most of the war.
Richmond, Virginia
This term describes the Northern strategy to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River.
Anaconda Plan
This 1863 document issued by Lincoln declared slaves in rebelling states to be "forever free."
Emancipation Proclamation
This famous conductor was known as "Moses" for leading over 300 enslaved people to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens and could not sue in federal court?
Dred Scott V. Sandford
This former Mississippi Senator served as the first and only President of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
This major 1863 Pennsylvania battle is widely considered the main turning point of the war.
Battle of Gettysburg
This iconic two-minute speech by Lincoln dedicated a national cemetery and redefined the war's purpose.
Gettysburg Address
This geographic feature or destination represented the ultimate goal for many runaways seeking guaranteed legal freedom.
Canada
This 1852 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe inflamed sectional tensions before the war?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This brilliant but aggressive general commanded the Army of Northern Virginia.
Robert E. Lee
This Union General accepted the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House.
Ulysses S. Grant
This political party chose Lincoln as its presidential nominee in the election of 1860.
Republican Party
This code term referred to the secret safe houses where fleeing slaves could hide and rest.
Stations
This intense political compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act to appease Southern states?
Compromise of 1850
This military draft act passed by Richmond in 1862 exempted men owning 20 or more slaves.
Twenty-Slave Law
This terminology was used by the Union military to classify and shield escaped slaves as captured property.
Contraband
This constitutional amendment abolishing slavery was aggressively pushed through Congress by Lincoln.
13th Amendment
This prominent abolitionist and orator secretly funded the Underground Railroad from Rochester, New York.
Frederick Douglass
This enslaved Virginian led a bloody 1831 rebellion that resulted in stricter slave codes across the South?
Nat Turners Rebellion
This Confederate commerce raider ship destroyed over 60 Union merchant vessels before sinking in 1864.
CSS Alabama
This executive decree officially permitted the recruitment of African American soldiers into the Union army.
Emancipation Proclamation
This specific theatre in Washington, D.C., was the site of Lincoln's assassination.
Ford's Theatre
This free Black man in Philadelphia kept meticulous records of the fugitives he assisted.
William Still