Social Studies SECTIONS 1 & 2

An 1820 agreement that kept the balance between free and slave states.

Missouri Compromise

A law allowing settlers to vote on whether slavery would be allowed in their territories.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

A formerly enslaved man who became a famous abolitionist and writer.

Frederick Douglass

An escaped enslaved woman who helped others escape through the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman

An enslaved man whose Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were not U.S. citizens.

Dred Scott

A formerly enslaved woman who fought for abolition and women's rights.

Sojourner Truth

Presidents before Lincoln who failed to stop tensions over slavery.

Presidents Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan

An abolitionist who attacked Harpers Ferry to start a slave rebellion.

John Brown

This election in 1860 worried Southern states because he opposed the spread of slavery.

Lincoln’s election

The first state to secede from the Union after Lincoln was elected.

South Carolina

The 16th president who led the Union during the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln

The most effective and famous commander of the Confederate Army.

Robert E. Lee

Early Union generals who struggled to defeat the Confederates.

Lincoln’s ineffective generals (McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Pope, Halleck, McDowell, etc.)

The president of the Confederate States of America.

Jefferson Davis

A skilled Confederate general known for his strong defense in battle.

Stonewall Jackson

The bloodiest single day in U.S. history and a Union victory.

Battle of Antietam

Lincoln's order that declared enslaved people in Confederate states free.

Emancipation Proclamation

The Union general who led the North to victory.

Ulysses S. Grant

A Union general known for his brutal tactics and destroying Southern resources during his campaigns.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The turning point of the Civil War and a victory for the Union.

Battle of Gettysburg

A series of brutal battles between Grant and Lee in Virginia.

Wilderness Campaign

A campaign that destroyed Southern infrastructure from Atlanta to Savannah.

Sherman’s March to the Sea

The site of Robert E. Lee's surrender to Grant.

Appomattox

Carried out by John Wilkes Booth shortly after the Civil War ended.

Lincoln’s Assassination

The period of rebuilding and reunifying the South after the Civil War that eventually failed.

Reconstruction

Lincoln's successor who had conflicts with Congress and his own cabinet during Reconstruction.

Andrew Johnson