Influential Individuals
US author who came from an abolitionist family and wrote a book about slavery that caused further separation between North and South and helped the abolitionist cause.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The bloody conflict between pro and anti-slavery citizens.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Place where the first civil war battle took place.
What is Fort Sumpter, South Carolina?
The march of an army of 62,000 men from Atlanta toward Savannah, Georgia which left a path of almost total destruction
What is Sherman's March?
Document freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
Commander of the Confederate Army that remained undefeated until the loss of the war.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
The person who fired the first shot at the first conflict during the civil war.
Who was Beauregard?
Place in Virginia where John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal.
What is Harper's Ferry?
A device that allowed messages to be sent by wires over long distances and helped Union send battle information.
What is Morse Code?
A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery or not.
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Young commander of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment that died as an abolitionist martyr.
Who was Robert Gould Shaw?
Title generally attached to the legislation passed by the 16th US Congress on May 9th,1820. Maintained a balance of power between opposing sides.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
One of the bloodiest turning point locations during the war. Is now a national park and showed that the North would win the war.
What is Gettysburg?
General for the South that refused to retreat during battle(freebieeee).
Who was "Stonewall" Jackson?
U.S. Supreme Court decision which determined that slaves could not sue in federal court because they did not have the rights of citizenship.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
General of the Union Army who fought with total warfare philosophy and was the 18th US President.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
A series of Civil War battles in which Confederate army successes forced the Union army to retreat from Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital.
What is the Seven Days' battle?
One of the last battles of the war and the final engagement of Robert E. Lee before he and his army surrendered.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
Novel written that showed the horrors of slavery to Northerners(another freebie).
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Law that provided harsh treatment for escaped slaves and those who helped them.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
Abolitionist who was hanged after an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, VA.
Who was John Brown?
Amendment proposal that called for federal funds to reimburse slaveholders for unreturned fugitive slaves.
What is Crittenden Compromise?
The fall of a territory in Mississippi to General Ulysses S. Grant's army on July 4th, 1863, after 48 days of siege.
What is Vicksburg?
Slave states that remained in the Union (Kentucky, Delaware, Missouri, and Maryland).
What are border states?
Laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 in the United States after the American Civil War with the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
What are black codes?