Northern Highlights
This Kentucky native was the "official" leader of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This group of slave holding states made their stand by leaving the continental U.S. and starting anew under this name.
The Confederate States of America
1861
This forceful recruitment process was the method by which most soldiers, both Union and Confederate, were onboarded.
The Draft
Southern life and economy revolved mostly around these large agricultural plots.
Plantation
These states, although slave holding, were loyal and stayed in the Union through thick and thin.
Border States
Home run or homefield advantage? This fastball of a nickname was often hurled at the soldiers in the Union army.
Yankee
The election of this 5 dollar president caused the southern states to do this, meaning to leave to break away.
Seceed
Despite the horrors of war, this aquatic advancement meant the swift sinking of ships as well as the beginning of ocean exploration.
Ironclad Submarine
The Union
Border Ruffian
This amendment to the Constitution would be the official end to slavery and forced labor in the eyes of the law.
13th
This word meaning "As one" or "Together" was the name used to describe the northern U.S. who stayed together.
Union
This Confederate victory was a highly spectated event by northerners expecting an easy victory. The events of this creek side battle shocked both sides.
The Battle of Bull Run
This profession, mostly held by women both in modern times and in the 1800's were responsible for treating wounded soliders on and off the battlefield
Nurses
This famous document sparked controversy when it attempted to legally free southern slaves in the middle of the war.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Fixing up all the damage from the civil war took decades, a period of time known as this.
Reconstruction
In a truly patriotic act, this amendment secured citizenship for all people born inside the United States regardless of race.
14th
This union victory was considered a major turning point in the war. So much so that Lincoln addressed it himself in a speech he gave in 1863.
The Battle of Gettysburg
This would be union general turned to the dark side after his home state of Virginia left the union to keep a hold of their slaves.
Robert E. Lee
Leader of the underground railroad, this conductor was the little engine that could, freeing dozens of slaves from their cruel conditions in the south.
Harriet Tubman
Lincoln, Garfield, JFK, and a few others have had this happen to them. A word meaning to sneakily kill.
Assassination
Abolitionists
In an unprecedented move, this amendment allowed for citizens of all races to vote in elections.
15th
This general turned president started as a leader of freedom fighters and later became a leader of nations.
Ulysses S. Grant
A leader of sorts, this local politician and military man stepped up when the Confederate States needed him and led the nation through its short life span.
Jefferson Davis
The war came to an abrupt halt when the Confederate leaders surrendered in this year.
1865
Texas was one stouborn state, refusing to rejoin the Union until this year, containing a number many of you love to make inappropreate jokes about.
1869
This southern system meant the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
Sharecropping?
Popular! You're gonna be popular! A form of decision-making in which the people vote on how they want things to be.
Popular Sovereignty