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US Grant,  | Commanding general of all Union armies who won victories after others failed |
Robert E. Lee,  | Opposed secession but fought for his state of Virginia |
Abraham Lincoln,  | Elected President in 1860 & vowed to keep the Union together by force if necessary |
Jefferson Davis,  | Mississippi Senator that becomes President of Confederacy |
Frederick Douglass,  | Wanted Union to recruit African American soldiers |
Gettysburg, PA,  | the turning point of the Civil War |
Fort Sumter, SC,  | First shots of the Civil War were fired here |
Appomattox, VA,  | Lee surrendered to Grant here |
Antietam, MD,  | Lincoln issued Emancipation Proclamation after this victory |
Emancipation Proclamation,  | Slaves were freed in states in rebellion against the Union |
13th Amendment,  | Abolished slavery in the USA |
14th Amendment,  | Guarantees equal rights |
15th Amendment,  | Guarantees voting rights for all men |
Radical Republicans,  | Favored punitive measures against the South (military occupation) |
Andrew Johnson,  | Impeached by Radical Republicans over a 'soft' Reconstruction policy |
Compromise of 1877,  | Made Hayes President but ended Reconstruction |
Harriet B Stowe,  | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was one cause of the war |
The Republican Party,  | founded to stop slavery from expanding into territories |
KansasNebraska Act,  | allowed people in territories to decide the issue of slavery |
Compromise of 1850,  | CA free state but South West territories decide slavery issue themselves |
Eli Whitney,  | Invented the Cotton Gin which increased production |
Dred Scott,  | Supreme Court said he was not free and had no right to sue |
Gettysburg Address,  | "... a government of the people, by the people and for the people." |
Reconstruction,  | Process to reform/rebuild the South after the Civil War |
South Carolina,  | First state to secede from the Union |
Atlanta & Richmond,  | Southern cities destroyed by the Civil War |
the North,  | Emerged from war with growing industrial economy |
William L Garrison,  | Editor of the abolitionist Liberator - Slavery wrong on Christian principles |
Bleeding Kansas,  | Pro and anti slavery groups fight each other over slavery |
Slavery,  | Southern states seceded from the Union fearing Lincoln would end |
The Confederacy,  | Southern states formed this government after seceding from the Union |
the Union,  | Lincoln vowed to defend this with force if necessary |
Volunteers,  | President Lincoln called for these after Ft. Sumter was attacked |
Haiti,  | Frederick Douglas became ambassador here after the Civil War |
Washington & Lee,  | R. E. Lee became President of this university after the Civil War |
Civil War Soldiers,  | wrote letters, journals and sometimes faced hand to hand combat |
Women,  | suffered hardships but also became nurses and manufactured war material |
the South,  | emerged from the war poor and with an agricultural economy |
popular sovereignty,  | Allowing people in a territory to decide if the area will be free or slave |
President Buchanan,  | His indecisive leadership between 1856/60 helped cause the Civil War |
Confederate money,  | was worthless after the Civil War |
