Battles
This battle was a major turning point for the Union and was the northernmost battle in the Civil War.
Battle of Gettysburg
President of the United States elected in 1860 and again in 1864.
President Abraham Lincoln
What speech of Lincoln's is this quote from? "Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty."
Gettysburg Address
1831 slave revolt in southern Virginia where 60 white people were killed. Led to harsher slave codes.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Amendment that abolishes slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
This was the opening confrontation to the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
What famous speech of Lincoln's is this quote from? "with malice towards none, with charity for all… to bind up the nation’s wounds"
Second Inaugural Address
1800 failed slave revolt due to a storm in Richmond, Virginia. Led to harsher slaves codes
Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion
Amendment that gave equal citizenship regardless of race or previous servitude.
14th Amendment
This battle resulted in the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and was the bloodiest day in US Military History.
Battle of Antietam
Virginian and leader of the Northern Virginia Confederate Troops. Originally opposed secession.
Robert E. Lee
What famous speech of Lincoln's is this quote from? "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free"
Emancipation Proclamation
Established 36'30" line where states below are annexed as slave and states above are annexed as free
Missouri Compromise
Amendment that granted African American Males the right to vote.
15th Amendment
This battle was a turning point battle for the Union led by Grant in Mississippi.
Battle of Vicksburg
Leader of the Union troops towards the end of the Civil War and will become president in the election of 1869.
Ulysses S. Grant
What event is this quote in reference to? "We, therefore, the People of South Carolina...appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world...have solemnly declared that the Union heretofore existing between this State and the other States of North America, is dissolved, and that the State of South Carolina has resumed her position among the nations of the world, as a separate and independent State.."
Secession of South Carolina leading to secession of other states.
Repealed Missouri Compromise by allowing popular sovereignty to decide slave or free states above the 36'30" line.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Reconstruction plan where 10% of registered voters from the election 1860 had to swear loyalty to the United States. Allowed for easy admittance of southern states into the Union
Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan
This was the final battle of the Civil War resulting in a Confederate surrender and Union victory.
Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
Abolitionist who published the Liberator and gave a voice to Frederick Douglass.
William Lloyd Garrison
What speech of Lincoln's is this quote from? "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it."
First Inaugural Address
California admitted as a free state, Slave trade banned in D.C., established Fugitive Slave Act, and allowed popular sovereignty in Utah & New Mexico.
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1877, known as the Fraud of the Century, brought an end to what?
Congressional Reconstruction