Historical Figures
Winner of the 1860 Election
Abraham Lincoln
This compromise lead to California being admitted as a free state, as well as a stronger Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850
The firsts shots of the civil war were shot here in 1861
Fort Sumter
This document declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territories to be free
Emancipation Proclamation
The South left the union to form this "country"
Confederate states of America
He assassinated president Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
The series of violent clashes in the 1850's on whether Kansas should be a free or slave state are known as...
Bleeding Kansas
This early battle showed the war wasn't going to be short and gave general Thomas Jackson his famous nicknames
Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
This act provided land to settles in the West, encouraging Northern economic expansion during the war.
Homestead Act
These slave-holding states remained loyal to the union during the war
Border States (West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Delaware)
This war general eventually became the 18th president of the United States
Ulysses S. Grant
This idea, proposed by Stephen Douglas, allowed territories to decide on slavery themselves
Popular Sovereignty
The bloodiest single day in American History happened during this 1862 battle
Battle of Antietam
This event in New York showed class tension over the Union draft.
New York Draft Riots
This state was the first to succeed from the union, setting off a chain in the south
South Carolina
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens
Dredd Scott vs Sandford
This devastating campaign cut across Georgia, destroying Southern supplies and morale.
Sherman's March to the Sea
Lincoln suspended this legal protection during the war to detain suspected rebels
Habeas Corpus
This plan, devised by general Winfield Scott, aimed to surround the entire confederacy and the basically squeeze them until they lost.
Anaconda plan/ Scott's great snake
Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner
This Fraudulent pro-slavery constitution deepened the conflict in Kansas and split the Democratic party
Lecompton Constitution
This 1865 site was where Robert E. Lee formally surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
Appomattox Courthouse
This diplomatic crisis nearly caused Britain to join the war after the Union seized Confederate diplomats from a British ship
Trent Affair
This term described Northern Democrats who opposed the war and Lincoln's policies
Copperheads