Antebellum
This invention by Eli Whitney made cotton processing faster and led to an increased demand for enslaved labor.
Cotton gin
This 1854 act allowed settlers in new territories to decide the issue of slavery for themselves
Kansas-Nebraska Act
He was the 16th President of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
The Civil War began here when Confederate forces fired on this fort in South Carolina.
Fort Sumter
This agency helped formerly enslaved people with food, jobs, and education.
Freedmen’s Bureau
These early textile mills in Massachusetts were known for hiring young women and providing dorm-style housing.
Lowell Mills
The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and “Bleeding Kansas” all dealt with this issue.
The expansion of slavery
She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, helping to inspire anti-slavery sentiment
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This battle ended the Confederacy’s control of the Mississippi River.
Siege of Vicksburg
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
13th Amendment
The belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled enslaved people were property, not citizens.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This Union general is best known for his “March to the Sea.”
William Tecumseh Sherman
This marked the official end of the Civil War when Lee surrendered to Grant.
Appomattox Court House
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
This policy warned European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
This 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry attempted to start a slave revolt.
John Brown
This Confederate general surrendered at Appomattox Court House
Robert E. Lee
This famous address by Lincoln redefined the purpose of the war as one of freedom and equality.
Gettysburg Address
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
The 1832 crisis in which South Carolina threatened secession over tariffs
Nullification Crisis
This event directly led South Carolina to secede from the Union
Lincoln’s election of 1860
This abolitionist published The North Star newspaper.
Frederick Douglass
Sherman’s “scorched earth” approach aimed to destroy the South’s will to fight — this strategy is called what?
Total War
These laws passed by Southern states aimed to limit the rights of freedmen after the war.
Black Codes