Civil War

S. Carolina senator who said slaves are property & argued for states' rights to expand slavery

Granted citizenship to anyone born in U.S & guaranteed all citizens equal protection of the law

Compromise that included: Cali free state, slave trade abolished in D.C. new fugitive slave act

Division of the country based on loyalty to your region over loyalty to the country as a whole

July 1st-3rd Union leaders defeated the South after Lee's men were looking for supplies, it's a turning point in the war

This added emotion to the war. People at home could see what was happening on the battlefield

A former slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement and ran a newspaper (Liberator)

Was designed to help former slaves w/ food, clothing, find jobs, medical care, created schools

This required governments & residents of free states to enforce the capture & return of slaves

The South felt they no longer had a voice in politics and began to secede from the Union after

This invention added to the death toll because of the severe damage it caused during the war

Compromise where all states N. of the 36th parallel were free states & all S. were slave states

After Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, almost 200,000 former slaves enlisted to fight for the Confederacy.

Bloodiest single day of fighting in U.S. history with over 22,000 casualties, Lee's plans were left behind on a cigar.

Known as a conductor on the underground railroad who helped runaway slaves to freedom

Remembered as the first major battle of the Civil War, poorly trained Union soldiers panicked and fled back to D.C.

Commander of the Confederate Army, surrendered to the Union at the courthouse in Appomattox

The last major battle of the American Civil War, Lee and his army were trapped in Virginia.

Lincoln's war machine consisted of which 3?

How did share cropping affect former slaves?

Allowed states to vote on slavery through popular sovereignty Led to violence & property damage

Ohio native, 18th president, and commander of the Union army during the Civil War.

This invention aided the north because their communication was instant during several battles

Wrote the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin which shed light on the brutality of slavery

Proposed the Proviso, to ban slavery in western Mexican Cession land.

Slave who sued & lost the case for his freedom even though his owner took him to a free state