A | B |
Abraham Lincoln | President during the Civil War |
1861-1865 | Civil War occurs in this country |
Fort Sumter, SC | Civil War starts here |
Robert E. Lee | Commander of Confederate forces |
Ulysses S. Grant | General of the Union forces |
Atlanta, Ga. | destroyed by total war tactics |
Sherman | used total war tactics |
secede | to leave the union |
Gettysburg Address | Four score and seven years ago... |
Antietam | bloodiest battle of the Civil War |
Gettysburg, PA. | turning point of the war in favor of the north |
Manassas | site of first major battle |
1865 | Lincoln dies |
Reconstruction | time of rebuilding for the south |
13th amendment | abolishes slavery |
14th amendment | defines citizenship, equal protection for all |
15th amendment | suffrage for freed african americans |
dysentary | major killer of the war |
Richmond, VA. | capital of Confederacy |
Jefferson Davis | Predident of the Confederacy |
Appomattox Courthouse | site of Lee's surrender |
Emancipation Proclamation | Frees slaves |
William Lloyd Garrison | editor of Liberator |
The Liberator | abolitionist newspaper |
Frederick Douglass | former slave, abolitionist |
Fugative Slave Law | required captured slaves back to the south |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | describes conditions of slavery |