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- 2. first engagement of the Civil War that took place on April 12 and 13, 1861.
- 3. United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)
- 6. a battle in which the Union gains control of Mississippi, meaning the confederacy was split in half
- 10. American Stage actor who shot Lincoln at Ford's theater in Washington D.C. on April 14, 1865
- 11. a hate group founded in Tennessee that mainly targeted blacks, their goal being to restore white supremacy
- 12. farmers in the South who maintained their wealth through planting crops and slavery
- 13. new states could take a vote to decide whether the state would join the Union as a free state or slave state
- 19. Lincoln freed all slaves in the South with this document, but did not free slaves in the border states in which he actually had control over
- 22. In 1859 John Brown seized this US arsenal, planning to end slavery by giving slaves weapons and massacring the slave owners
- 28. the political group that wished to punish the South for its succession by pushing for measurements that would give political rights for freed blacks
- 31. Republican: Abraham Lincoln, Democrat: Stephen A Douglas & John C. Breckenridge; Lincoln was elected as the president which was the final straw to Southerners, leading to the secession of Southern states
- 32. strip of land purchased in 1853 from Mexico for 10 million dollars
- 33. Southerner from Tennessee, was the V.P for Lincoln; he became the president when Lincoln was killed but was unpopular with both Republicans and Democrats, leading to Congress's attempt to impeach him
- 34. Commander of the Confederate States Army, who proved himself to be a very effective military leader
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- 1. an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe; published in 1852, the novel helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War
- 2. an escaped slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement, known for being a writer and orator, and his several influential autobiographies
- 4. in 1854, this act repealed the Missouri Compromise; people of Kansas and Nebraska would decide if they were slave or free state
- 5. another name for slavery
- 7. political party that formed in 1854 by anti-slavery Whigs, democrats and free soilers, they wanted exclude slavery from new territories
- 8. Union general who lead the victory against the South and later became president of the United States
- 9. admitted California as a free state and people from Utah and New Mexico would decide if they were slave or free state, settled the Texas-New Mexico border dispute, ended slave trade in Washington DC, and gave southern states a stronger Fugitive slave act
- 14. Secretary of State William H. Sewards signed a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7 million, which was ridiculed in Congress
- 15. secret network that helped slaves escape to North and Canada
- 16. United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)
- 17. a battle fought on July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; the battle involved the largest number of casualties and was a turning point of the Civil War
- 18. Dred Scott sued for his freedom after his master died, but the Supreme Court ruled that he couldn’t sue because he was property not citizen
- 20. the belief that Americans had a God-given right to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean
- 21. a battle that took place in 1862; ended Lee’s efforts to invade the Northern states
- 23. Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri; these states were important because if the seceded to confederacy, Washington would’ve been surrounded by confederate states
- 24. Mexican territory added to US after the Mexican War: California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, most of Arizona
- 25. passed by all Southern state legislatures, this set of regulations limited movement by blacks, prohibited interracial marriage, and insisted that blacks obtain special certificates to hold certain jobs
- 26. in 1861, this man was elected as the president of the Confederate States
- 27. a constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery and any other form of involuntary servitude in the Southern states
- 29. the process by which Congress can vote a president out of office for a federal crime
- 30. the amendment to the Constitution that stated that all people that reside in the United States can be United States citizens, and must have their rights upheld