Events Leading to the Civil War
One of the bills passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, this stated that all citizens of the United States, regardless of region, would be required to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their "owners".
Fugitive Slave Act
The Election of this year saw Republican Abraham Lincoln win the presidency, prompting the secession of southern slave states, sparking the Civil War.
1860
This Union General was promoted to full commander of the Union Army after his capture of Vicksburg, and would go on to get the Confederate Army to surrender in April 1865, ending the Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant
The first shots of the Civil War were fired by the Confederacy in April 1861 at this U.S. Army fortification in Charleston, SC.
Fort Sumter
The vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada during the mid-19th century was known as the...
Underground Railroad
This Supreme Court decision ruled against plaintiff, stating he had no right to sue for his freedom, despite the fact he lived in Free Territory, where slavery was outlawed.
Scott v. Sanford
Lincoln gave this famous speech at the site of the Civil War's deadliest battle, calling to continue on with the fight for the fallen and to help preserve "...government of the people, by the people, and for the people..." created by the Patriots "four score and seven years" before.
The Gettysburg Address
After resigning from his position in the U.S. Army following the secession oh his home state of Virginia, this man commanded the Confederate Army for the length of the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee
Fought in September 1862, this was the first major battle of the Civil War on Union soil, and resulted in 26,000 casualties - the deadliest one-day battle in U.S. military history.
Battle of Antietam
The most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad, this woman later served as a Union spy during the Civil War.
Attempting to arm slaves for a revolt, this abolitionist led a failed raid of a federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
John Brown
In 1862, after the bloody battle at Antietam, Lincoln used executive powers to issue this, declaring that all enslaved people held in the rebelling states were now freed.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Considered a brilliant military tactician and great commander for Robert E. Lee's Army, this man led Confederate forces to victory at both battles of Bull Run. His death later in the war proved to be a crushing blow for the Confederates.
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
After invading Pennsylvania, Robert E. Lee's forces were met by the Union Army, leading to this battle, the deadliest of the entire Civil War.
(51,000 were killed)
Gettysburg
This was a series of bills passed to ease the growing tensions between the north and south, bringing in the states of New Mexico and California, among other things.
The Compromise of 1850
The passage of this 1854 bill led to violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers of the new territory for which the bill was named.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
In an attempt to protect the Union, President Abraham Lincoln used an executive power to suspend this constitutional right during the Civil War, leading to the arrest of approximately 13,000 southern sympathizers.
habeas corpus
(the legal rule that anyone imprisoned must be taken before a judge to determine if the prisoner is being legally held in custody)
Grant's #2 in command, this Union General is noted for capturing the key Confederate city of Atlanta and subsequently leading the "March to the Sea" through Georgia, wearing down the Confederate will to fight through the widespread destruction his forces left in their wake.
William T. Sherman
Fought over a span of two months from May through July 1863, Union victory gave them control of the Mississippi River, interrupting the transport of Confederate troops and supplies, and cutting off Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana from the rest of the Confederacy.
Battle of Vicksburg
In the lead up to the Civil War, functioning railroads, population, and industrial output were the three primary examples of the growing disparity between the northern and southern ________________.
economies
Allowing the citizens of a territory to decide whether or not slavery would be allowed was known as...
Popular sovereignty
After his re-election in 1864, President Lincoln gave this speech, stating slavery was such an evil the North was right to have gone to war over the issue, saying it had been fought to preserve the Union as an indivisible nation of citizens who would no longer profit from "wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces" (taking their earnings from the labor of slaves).
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
A former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, this man served a president of the Confederacy during the Civil War. His failure to secure a European ally left the Confederacy with a permanent economic disadvantage during the war.
Jefferson Davis
Union General William T. Sherman besieged this confederate railway and manufacturing center for six weeks, starting in July 1864, before officially capturing the city in September.
Atlanta
Just five days after Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox, this man shot and killed President Lincoln in revenge of the Southern loss in the Civil War.
John Wilkes Booth