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| This was the event where General Lee surrendered to General Grant , which officially ended the war |
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| political idea that allowed people living in a state or territory to vote whether their state would be a slave or free state |
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| This was the belief held by Southern States. They did not want the federal government to have complete political control. |
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| This law determined that popular sovereignty would be used in two new states, but this eventually led to a mini civil war |
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| This person was a famous abolitionist who tried to steal weapons with his sons and former slaves |
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| This was a proposed law that tried to prevent the expansion or spread of slavery into the Mexican Cession, congress rejected it |
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| This was a law that said if a slave ran away to a free state, he or she must be captured and returned to their owner |
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| a significant conflict in American history when the North fought to preserve the Union and the South fought for states rights |
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| the political right normally given to U.S. citizens, but during the Civil War President Lincoln suspended this right |
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| conflict that allowed the Union soldiers to contol part of the Mississippi River, cut off supplies to the Confederate States |
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| conflict during the Civil War, General Sherman conquered the capital of Georgia and then marched to Savannah destroying everything in his path. |
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| event known as the single bloodiest day in U.S. history. 27,000 soldiers were killed, led President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation |
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| In this event President Lincoln dedicated a battle field and he also reminded the nation of our goal to preserve the union. |
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| California was entered as a free state. New Mexico and Utah were to use popular sovereignty to decide the issure of slavery. |
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| Dred Scott v.Sanford (1856) Dred Scott Decision |
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| often called the Supreme Courts greatest self-inflicted wound,ruled slaves as property and incapable of becoming citizens |
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| Associated with a conflict between slavery supporters and antislavery supporters |
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| dealt with the expansion of slavery into the former Lousiana Territory using the 36/30 line. |
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| from South Carolina and most notable as being 19th century abolitionists |
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| Most known in American History for leading an unsuccesssful slave revolt in Virginia in 1830's/ |
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| Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 |
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| repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, was created as a means of constructing a transcontinental railroad |
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| What happened afte the election of Abraham Lincoln? |
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| After this event South Carolina suceded from the US and created a nation called the Confederate States of America |
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| What was Abraham Lincoln's primary goal? |
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| What was William Tecumseh Sherman's resoning behind using a strategy of "total war" to defeat the south? |
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| The destruction in Georgia would be so complete that it would break the Confederacy's will to continue fighting |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| It immediately freed the slaves throughout the country, especially in the border states where slavery was popular |
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| Significance of Fort Sumter |
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| this is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired |
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| Battle that was a major victory and the "turning point" of the Civil War |
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| The biggest disadvantage of the southern states durung the Civil War |
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| The lack of factories for producing war supplies |
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| Significance of the destruction of Atlanta by Sherman and his troops |
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| The Union Army broke the back of the confederate states and cut off the transportation by railroad |
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| president of the Confederate States during the Civil War |
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| president of the United States during the Civil War |
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| This person was a key nothern general who received the COnfederate surrender at the end of the war. |
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| former slave and one of the most influential abolitionists before and during the Civil War. |
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| This person was a general who died during the war. His death hurt Southern morale because he was a great leader. |
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| Southern General who surrendered on behalf of the south at Appomattox Court House. |
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