This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
What is 13th Amendment
100
The raid led by this man contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War because it frightened citizens in preparing for war.
John Brown (his raid on Harpers Ferry)
100
The site of the opening engagement of the Civil War; Congress declared war on the Confederacy the next day
What is Fort Sumter
100
General Lee led his army into Maryland and the ensuing battle resulted in the bloodiest single day of the war
What is Antietam
100
Chosen as president of the Confederacy in 1861
Jefferson Davis
200
This declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens and therefore had “equal protection” and “due process of the law”
What is the 14th amendment
200
This is the idea that states should choose/vote for issues like slavery
What is Popular Sovereignty
200
The location of Confederate General Lee’s surrender to Union General Grant ending the Civil War (place, city and state)
What is Appomattox Court House in Richmond, Virginia
200
U.S. General-in-Chief Winfield Scott’s plan to defeat the Confederacy by breaking the Confederacy in two and then striking from all sides at once
What is Anaconda Plan
200
A network of escape routes to freedom in Canada; led by Harriet Tubman
What is Underground Railroad
300
A resolution by Henry Clay that temporarily settled the slavery issue by admitting California as a free state and creating a stronger Fugitive Slave Act
What is Compromise of 1850
300
The Supreme Court case that ruled Congress could not prohibit slavery in any federal territory and that blacks were not citizens; it nullified the Missouri Compromise
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford
300
first major battle of the Civil War; it showed that both sides were ill-prepared and that the war would not be over quickly
What is 1st Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
300
A three-minute address by President Lincoln at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of a battlefield
What is Gettysburg Address
300
1st white abolitionist to advocate & practice insuurection as a mean to abolition of slavery; belief in confrontation led him to kill 5 pro-slavery southerners.
John Brown
400
After Antietam Lincoln freed all slaves in the states that had seceded, but had no power to enforce this law. What was it called?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
400
This was part of the Compromise of 1850 & required all citizens in the United States to assist in the return of runaway slaves
What is Fugitive Slave Law
400
This was considered to be the bloodiest battle of the war, as well as the turning point in the war
What is Gettysburg
400
The name of the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which further divided the North and South over the issue of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
400
Early Union army leader in the Civil War; Lincoln fired him twice
George McClellan
500
Stephen Douglas’ idea that people in a territory have the power to prohibit slavery by refusing to pass local laws necessary to make a slave system work
What is the Freeprot Doctrine
500
Debates held during Illinois Senate campaign; popular sovereignty was a hot topic.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
500
The path through the South from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and finally to the coast of Savannah in which a campaign of total war was waged by the Union.
What is Sherman's March
500
The nickname for the territory that resulted after pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces began fighting over the slavery issue
What is Bleeding Kansas
500
Northerners saw evils of slavery for the 1st time because of this novel; Southerns believed the novel was a book of insulting lies.