Battles
The bloodiest single day in the war, that allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle of Antietam
The Virginian and first person Abraham Lincoln asked to command the Union army
Robert E. Lee
This man carried out a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia
John Brown
The man who killed Abraham Lincoln
John Wilks Booth
Attempt to solve issues that arose from territory gained from Mexico
Compromise of 1850
The last time Lee would invade Union territory, which led to crushing Confederate defeat
Battle of Gettysburg
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
The first State to withdraw from the Union
South Carolina
The number of Southern States Lincoln won in the 1860 election
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Legislation proposed by Stephen Douglas to create two new territories in the west for the purpose of building a transcontinental railroad.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This battle marked the beginning of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
The Union General who ran for president in 1864
George McClellan
The man who fell one vote short in the senate of being removed from office
Andrew Johnson
The term that says government is established by free choice of the people
Popular Sovereignty
Speech given by President Lincoln that dedicated a battleground and motivated his side to continue the struggle that our forefathers had begun with the revolution.
Gettysburg Address
The end of the Civil War
Appomattox Court House
The Union General who would be elected President in 1868 and is on the 50$ bill
Ulysses S. Grant
The law that was designed to protect escaped slaves who made it into the North.
Personal Liberty Laws
This amendment freed all slaves in the United States without compensating their owners.
13th
Proposed legislation that would have prohibited slavery in any new territories gained from Mexico.
Wilmot Proviso
A Union victory that gave the Union control of the Mississippi and effectively split the Confederacy in two.
Battle of Vicksburg
Union general who employed a total war campaign in his "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah.
William Sherman
The term used to describe Union troops who were careful not to assault southern civilians.
limited war
This offered to extend the Missouri Compromise line of 1820 all the way to the Pacific, excluding California.
Crittenden Compromise
The act that offered 160 acres of free public land to any settler (including former slaves) who had never taken up arms against the federal government and who lived on the land for five years.
Homestead Act