Road to War
This compromise admitted California as a free state.
The Compromise of 1850
This man was elected president in 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
This event started the Civil War.
The attack on Fort Sumter
This was the first major battle of the war.
The First Battle of Bull Run
This system of government became stronger after the war.
The federal government
This law punished people who helped escaped enslaved people.
The Fugitive Slave Act
This man became president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate areas.
The Emancipation Proclamation
This was the bloodiest single day of the war.
The Battle of Antietam
This term describes rebuilding the South.
Reconstruction
This act allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry.
John Brown
This election triggered Southern secession.
The Election of 1860
This turning point battle stopped Lee’s invasion of the North.
The Battle of Gettysburg
This group gained freedom after the war.
Formerly enslaved people
Violence in Kansas over slavery had this nickname.
Bleeding Kansas
This Confederate general was nicknamed “Stonewall.”
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
This speech honored soldiers and redefined the war.
The Gettysburg Address
This victory gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
The Siege of Vicksburg
This strategy targeted cities, land, and civilians.
Total War
This Supreme Court case ruled enslaved people were not citizens.
Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This Union general accepted Lee’s surrender.
Ulysses S. Grant
This amendment ended slavery.
The 13th Amendment
This battle in Tennessee had over 23,000 casualties.
The Battle of Shiloh
This is where the war officially ended.
Appomattox Court House