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EVENTS THAT LED TO THE CIVIL WAR
IMPORTANT PEOPLE
EVENTS & BATTLES
CAUSES
Reconstruction
100
Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that increased public opposition to slavery
What is the Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
He was the last casualty of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Lincoln's order to free the slaves in 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
It was the most important and biggest cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
100
Amendment, in 1865, which abolished slavery.
Who is the 13th Amendment?
200
Included the admission of California as a free state & a stricter fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
Abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
The bloodiest day of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
Loyalty to one's region before the whole nation.
What is sectionalism?
200
Laws passed by Southern leaders to control their former slaves.
Who are the black codes?
300
Led to the secession of the Southern states in 1861.
What is the Election of 1860 (Lincoln's election)?
300
Union general at the end of the Civil War, he accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
The battle in which the Union gained control of the Mississippi River & cut the Confederacy in half.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
300
Tax on imports to protect American manufacturers.
What are Protective Tariffs?
300
Amendment, in 1870, which gave former slaves the right to vote.
Who is the 15th Amendment?
400
Abolitionist who led the raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
400
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
The turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
Led by Frederick Douglass & Harriet Tubman it was a movement to end slavery.
What is abolition?
400
Amendment, in 1867, which gave citizenship & civil rights to former slaves.
Who is the 14th Amendment?
500
It decided the issue of slavery in Kansas & Nebraska in 1854 (the will of the people).
What is popular sovereignty?
500
Confederate general who surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
500
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant and ended the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
500
Argument that a state has the right to NOT enforce a federal law it considers unfair.
What is States' Rights?
500
Supreme Court ruling in 1856, it was overruled by the 14th Amendment.
Who is the Dred Scott Decision?