American History Chapter 4

President of the Confederacy.

The first African American U.S. senator.

Tides turn in the war at Chancellorsville, when ______ was accidentally shot in the arm, and then dies of pneumonia.

The first hostile action of the Civil War.

Over 600,000 men died in the Civil War.

Commander of the Confederate Army. After he was defeated at Gettysburg, he gave up all hope of invading the North.

He hoped to spark a general slave uprising and led a raid on Harpers Ferry.

The first bloodshed of the war took place at _______.

This state was the first to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860.

Published, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which brought the moral struggle of slavery into homes across the nation.

Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom. The court ruled against him.

The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.

Under popular sovereignty, who would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?

He led a march through Georgia, where he was determined to make the South sick of war

Responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

The _____ amendment abolishes slavery.

The 1858 race for a U.S. Senate seat between ________ & Abraham Lincoln brought about debates over the issue of slavery.

The _____ amendment gave citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.”

Lincoln’s vice president and successor. Radical Republicans tried to impeach him but were unsuccessful.

Grant’s victory at _______ fulfilled the Union goal of splitting the Confederacy in two.

Created to provide food, clothing, hospitals, legal protection, & education to former slaves & poor whites in the South

Douglas believed popular sovereignty was the answer to slavery in the territories.

California would be admitted as a free state, a more effective slave law, & popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah

wanted African Americans to be given full citizenship & the right to vote.

Dedicated union nurse who went on to found the American Red Cross after the war.

The Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in our nation.

This amendment states that no one can be kept from voting because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

The final surrender of the Confederate Army took place here.

A draft that forced men to serve in the army.

Which was NOT part of the Union’s three-part plan to conquer the South?

This battle proved to be the bloodiest single day in American History, casualties totaled more than 26,000.

The system of escape routes slaves used to become free.

This 3 day battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.

What did the Supreme Court declare in the Dred Scott decision?

More men died in the Civil War than in all other American wars combined.

One of the most famous “conductors” on the Underground Railroad.

Popular Sovereignty led to violence in Kansas.

At this ceremony Lincoln gave a speech that helped the country realize it was a unified nation.

The period during which the U.S. began to rebuild after the Civil War.

He won the presidential election of 1864.

Issued on January 1, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln. It freed the slaves in the Confederate states.