Civil War

13th Amendment

Abolished slavery

14th Amendment

Gave African-Americans citizenship status in the U.S.

15th Amendment

Gave African-American men the right to vote

Abraham Lincoln

President and leader of the Union

advantages of the North (Union) heading into the Civil War

More troops, railroads and factories

advantages of the South (Confederacy) heading into the Civil War

Better military leaders and trained soldiers

Anaconda Plan

Blockade southern ports, divide the Confederacy into 2 parts, capture Richmond, Virginia

Battle of Antietam

Bloodiest single-day battle; considered a tie; Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation afterwards

Battle of Bull Run

First major battle of the Civil War; Confederate victory

Battle of Fort Sumter

First shots of the Civil War happened here

Battle of Gettysburg

Union victory over a 3 day battle; considered the "turning point" of the Civil War.

Battle of Shiloh

Union victory delivered by Grant that gave them control of the Tennessee River

Compromise of 1850

allowed California to enter the Union as a free state

Dred Scott Decision

former slave who sued for his freedom that went to the Supreme Court that ruled slaves were property.

Election of 1860

Presidential election in which Lincoln won and the beginning of the Southern states seceding from the Union

first state to secede from the United States

South Carolina

four border states

Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware

Fugitive Slave Law

law that made it illegal to help runaway slaves

George Meade

Union general responsible for winning Battle of Gettysburg

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America

John Wilkes Booth

Assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Kansas-Nebraska Act

stated that the issue of slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty in future territories

Lee surrender to Grant

Appomattox Courthouse

Lincoln assassinated

Ford's Theater

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

famous debates between Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as they ran for a Senate position in Illinois where the debates revolved around the issue of slavery

Missouri Compromise

allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state

popular sovereignty

Deciding what to do based on the vote of an entire population.

Pottawatomie Creek Massacre

5 pro-slavery men were killed in a tiny town in Kansas

Raid on Harper's Ferry

event led by John Brown in an attempt to start a slave revolt by raiding a federal armory (weapons storage)

Robert E. Lee

Commander of the Confederate army

Siege of Vicksburg

Union victory delivered by Grant that gave them control of the Mississippi River

significance of the naval battle of the Monitor v. Merrimack

Both ships were protected by iron thus changing how naval ships were built.

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Confederate general killed at Chancellorsville; was known as Lee's "right arm"

total war

Fighting method used by Sherman as he marched through the South by destroying anything that could be used by the enemy (crops, railroads, factories, etc…)

Ulysses S. Grant

Had military success in the West, appointed leader of the Union army and was responsible for forcing Lee to surrender

Uncle Tom's Cabin

novel written by Harriett Beecher Stowe to shows the horrors of slavery

William Sherman

Union general who led the famous "March to the Sea" destroying the South