Dates
Date that Texas seceded from the Union
When was February 1861?
Issue that led Texas and other southern states to leave the Union.
What was the issue of slavery?
Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Battle that began the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This event ended the Civil War with the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is the Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse?
Year that Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States.
When was 1860?
3 parts: Maine was a free state, Missouri was a slave state, everything above 3630 latitude line would be free, everything below would be slave.
What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Abraham Lincoln's oft-quoted speech, delivered at the dedication of the cemetery at the battlefield. In the address, Lincoln framed the war as a means to uphold the values of liberty.
What was the Gettysburg address?
January 1, 1863. Confederate Army takes back important port city from the Union.
What was the Battle of Galveston?
Encouraged westward settlement by allowing heads of families to buy 160 acres of land for a small fee ($10-30); settlers were required to develop and remain on the land for five years. Over 400,000 families got land through this law.
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
Date that the Civil War began.
When was April 12th, 1861?
(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Lincoln's speech that said he intended to restore and heal the USA
What was Lincoln's 2nd inauguration address?
Confederate victory in which the Davis Guards repulsed an invasion of Union gunboats. 4,000 Union soldiers vs. 400 Confederate. Unions attempt to retake Galveston.
What was the Battle of Sabine Pass?
Set up to help freedmen and white refugees after Civil War. Provided food, clothing, medical care, and education.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Date that the Civil War ended.
When was April 9th, 1865?
1858 Senate Debate, Lincoln forced Douglas to debate issue of slavery, Douglas supported pop-sovereignty, Lincoln asserted that slavery should not spread to territories, Lincoln emerged as strong Republican candidate
What was the Lincoln-Douglas debate?
1. secession was illegal
2. he wouldn't interfere with slavery where it already existed
3. If war started, it would be the South that would be responsible
What was Lincoln's 1st inauguration address?
Robert E. Lee's invasion of the north. Turning point in the War. Bloodiest day of the Civil War that lasted 3 days.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
An act that removed Indian land from tribal possession, redivided it, and distributed it among individual Indian families. Designed to break tribal mentalities and promote individualism.
What is the Dawes Act?
1865-1877: Period of time after the Civil War
What is the Reconstruction Era?
In 1859, the militant abolitionist John Brown seized the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry. He planned to end slavery by massacring slave owners and freeing their slaves. He was captured and executed.
What was the John Brown's raid?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal"
What is the Gettysburg Address?
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
Person who became President after Abraham Lincoln's Assassination.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?