People
personally led over seventy people on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
secret routes leading to free Northern states and Canada
Underground Railroad
Year Civil War began
1861
What did the Thirteenth Amendment outlaw in the United States?
Name of the Confederate ironclad
Merrimack
wrote a book about his life as a slave
Frederick Douglass
The first Southern state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
document issued by Lincoln declaring the freedom of all slaves in the states that had left the Union
Emancipation Proclamation
speech given by President Lincoln that honored fallen soldiers from both sides of the war
Gettysburg Address
Who did John Wilkes Booth assassinate?
President Abraham Lincoln
slave who brought an important case to the Supreme Court
Dred Scott
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here
Fort Sumter
Republican Party
Battle in which more soldiers died in one day than on any other day of the Civil War
Antietam
Abraham Lincoln was the first president elected for which political party
Republican
nicknamed "Unconditional Surrender"
Ulysses S. Grant
Which battle was the turning point of the war
Gettysburg
Richmond, Virginia
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Which act was a law that ended the practice of bringing enslaved people to America to be sold?
The Transatlantic Slave Trade Act
president of the Confederate States
Jefferson Davis
Eleven states that withdrew from the Union to form their own country
Confederate States of America
Which general led the Confederate Army during the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
Nicknamed "Stonewall"
Thomas Jackson
Which compromise attempted to balance the power in the Senate between free and slave states?
Compromise of 1850