Definitions
A draft that forced men to serve in the army
The election of who led to secession of the southern states
Led country through Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Conflict between the North and the South over slavery
Civil War
Freed slaves to areas behind Confederate lines, outside Union control
Emancipation Proclamation
Which state was the first to leave the Union?
South Carolina
Belief that the United States was ordained to expand to the Pacific Ocean and to Mexican territory
Manifest Destiny
The abolitionist that was a dormer slave and went to found his own newspaper called the "North Star"
Frederick Douglass
Battle of Gettysburg
Secret network developed by African American and white abolitionists to hide fugitive slaves
Underground Railroad
Famous conductor of underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
people who wanted to end slavery
abolitionist
The general that led the Confederate Army
General Robert E. Lee
Also known as the Border war
A series of violet civil confrontations which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
The raid across the South that brought the war to an end
Sherman's March to Sea
Who founded the American Red Cross and was a nurse during the Civil War
Clara Barton
the formal withdrawal of a state from the union
it became more frequent
secession
The president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Although no one was injured, it was considered to be the first battle of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
On April 9, 1865, where did General Lee surrender to General Grant
Appomattox
treaty that ended the Mexican- American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The right to vote for or against slavery
popular sovereignty
A slave whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri to the free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin
He was unsuccessfully sued for his freedom
Dred Scott
This battle is known as the bloodiest single-day battle in American History
Antietam
A landmark decision by the Supreme Court on U.S. labor law and constitution law
Dred Scott court case
The Mexican- American War was largely ignited over what dispute?
U.S.- Texas negotiation on annexation