In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln was the only presidential candidtate to take the stand against slavery. His debate with Stephen Douglas won him fame as an opponent of slavery. The southern states threatened that they would secede from the Union if Abraham Lincoln was elected president because he spoke out against slavery. After becoming president, Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 to make slavery illegal in the Confederate states. The document said, “slaves of any state…in rebellion… shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.

Harriet Tubman

________ was a famous conductor in the Underground Railroad who helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom.

Frederick Douglass

________ was a former slave who learned to read and write.

Northern States

The ________ were called the Union, and Ulysses Grant was the general for the Union army.

Abraham Lincoln

________ was assassinated in 1865.

Robert E Lee

________ was a genious in military strategies and his personalily made him with holding the Confederate Army together.

President Lincoln

________ delivered a speech called the Gettysburg Address.

Confederate Army

The ________ was led by Robert E. Lee.

southern states

The ________ threatened that they would secede from the Union if Abraham Lincoln was elected president because he spoke out against slavery.

bloodiest battle of the Civil War

The ________ was the Battle at Gettysburg.