Civil War Events

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  1. 1. 1st state to secede from the Union
  2. 3. 16th president of the United States; helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederacy; an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery.
  3. 4. Many factories, industrial, bigger cities, many immigrants, and didn't support slavery.
  4. 5. Power comes from the people who rule by majority and their own consent.
  5. 7. A novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral and caused many northerns to oppose slavery.
  6. 10. Issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union. It also said that black men could join the Union army.
  7. 12. A group tried to seize the federal arsenal and armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia to give weapons to slaves who could use them to fight for freedom. The plan failed, and the leader was tried, convicted, and hanged for treason.
  8. 14. A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States
  9. 15. Famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant
  10. 18. (1863) a speech given by Abraham Lincoln in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War; supported the ideals of self-government and democratic government
  11. 21. Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.
  12. 23. 1863, Union gains control of Mississippi River and Grant takes lead of Union armies, total war begins
  13. 24. Slave sued for his freedom after living in a free state for a short time. Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property.
  14. 25. A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
  15. 26. The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
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  1. 1. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
  2. 2. The president was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865Missouri Compromise Created to keep the balance of power of free states and slave states. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
  3. 6. Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation
  4. 8. (1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) slave trade abolished in DC, and (4) new fugitive slave law; strengthened South's support advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas
  5. 9. Area that relied on agriculture, plantations, cotton, crops. few factories, and had slaves.
  6. 11. 1854 A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery
  7. 13. A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders
  8. 16. 1863, this three day battle was the bloodiest of the entire Civil War, ended in a Union victory, and is considered the turning point of the war because the South would never invade the North again.
  9. 17. A system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada
  10. 19. Created to keep the balance of power of free states and slave states. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
  11. 20. American abolitionist. Born a slave on a Maryland plantation, she escaped to the North in 1849 and became the most renowned conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom.
  12. 22. Union fort attacked by Confederates in South Carolina 1861 sparking the start of the Civil War