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- 6. A series of seven debates held in 1858 between Republican Abraham Lincoln and Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas for an Illinois Senate seat. The central theme was slavery and its expansion.
- 7. Fought in July 1863, it was a decisive Union victory and a significant turning point in the war, halting the Confederate advance into Northern territory.
- 8. Fought in September 1862, was the single bloodiest day in American history. A Union victory (or tactical draw) provided Lincoln with the necessary confidence and political standing to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
- 9. A landmark 1857 Supreme Court decision that had massive political implications. The Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, ruled that:
- 10. A federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. Confederate forces bombarded the fort on April 12, 1861, marking the official start of the Civil War.
- 11. The first major land battle of the Civil War, fought in July 1861, resulted in a Confederate victory. It dispelled the notion on both sides that the war would be short.
- 12. What Civil War the civil war take place
- 13. A period of intense guerrilla warfare and bloodshed between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers (known as "border ruffians" and "Free-Soilers," respectively) who rushed into Kansas to influence the vote on slavery.
- 14. Issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, it declared all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory to be free. It fundamentally changed the war from one about preserving the Union to one about ending slavery.
- 15. The Democratic Party split along sectional lines, with two candidates running. Stephen Douglas (Northern Democrats) and John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrats). Lincoln, the Republican candidate who opposed the expansion of slavery.
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- 1. A prominent African American abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. An escaped enslaved person himself, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement, known for his powerful anti-slavery speeches and writings.
- 2. The 16th President of the United States, who led the Union through the Civil War. His primary goal shifted from preserving the Union to the abolition of slavery as a war aim.
- 3. Ratified in December 1865, it formally and permanently abolished slavery throughout the United States.
- 4. Consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion
- 5. Passed in May 1854, this act organized the Kansas and Nebraska territories and decreed that the status of slavery there would be determined by "popular sovereignty" (a vote by the residents).