Causes of the War
Anti Slavery Novel Written by Harriet Beacher Stowe that outlined the harsh realities of slavery. It was spread around the US and the world
Uncle Toms Cabin
Vocab term used to describe the south leaving the union
Succession
Name of the President during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This amendment to the constitution eliminated slavery after the Civil War
13th Amendment
This major piece of technology stretched across the Union States helped transport goods and soldiers at a rate never seen before
Transcontinental Railroad
A compromise in 1820 that divided the United States at the 36 30 line. All states above would be free and all states below would be slave.
Missouri Compromise
John Browns raid on this arsenal in Virginia was the pre cursor to the Civil War
Harpers Ferry
Name of this famous women abolitionist who guided people on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Laws designed to limit African Americans and newly freedman in the south.
Black Codes
Major communication tool and technology that was used heavily by the north during the Civil War.
Telegraph
A major Supreme Court Case in the 1850s that labeled slaves as "property" and as a result could not sue for freedom even if they were in free territory.
Dredd Scott Case
This major document freed the slaves and changed the course of the civil war
Emancipation Proclamation
The women who is considered the founder of the American Red Cross and nurse during the Civil War
Clara Barton
Type of substance farming that many freedmen were forced in to. It is compared to paid slavery.
Sharecropping
The formation of this hate group was a result of the newly acquired freedoms such as the reconstruction amendments. This group intimidated, abused and even killed African Americans
Klu Klux Klan
During Westward Expansion, this law allowed states to vote on and decide if they wanted their state to be slave or free:
Popular Sovereignty
This amendment gave voting rights to all African American Men
15th Amendment
Famous General for the Confederates during the Civil War who was in charge of their entire army. He is from Virginia.
Robert E Lee
Reconstruction Amendment that gives direct citizenship to anyone born in America
14th Amendment
Major General for the union and Inventor of the "Scorched Earth Approach". He burned all the major network hubs in the south through Total War.
William Sherman
The name of the Anti-Slavery newspaper written by famous abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
The Liberator
This major speech & address by Abraham Lincoln given after a famous battle proclaimed that All men are created equal and this gave the Union even more cause to win the Civil War.
Gettysburg Address
The only president of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
President during Reconstruction and was the first president to be impeached
Andrew Johnson
The All African American regiment that fought in the Civil War and was led by Robert Gould Shaw
The Massachusetts 54th Regiment