A | B |
fighting defensive war | southern strength |
Delaware | Border state |
Southern Independence | Southern reason for war |
restore the Union | Northern reason for war |
Robert E. Lee | Confederate Army commander |
Ulysses S. Grant | Union Army commander |
invading unfamiliar land | Northern weakness |
Abraham Lincoln | President of USA |
Jefferson Davis | President of CSA |
South Carolina | first state to secede |
December 20, 1860 | When S. Carolina seceded |
Fort Sumter | Where war started |
April 12, 1861 | When war started |
Robert Anderson | commander of Fort Sumter |
cottoncracy | highest social class in South |
free blacks | lowest social class in south |
American colonization Society | end slavery with Liberia Africa |
abolitionist | wanted to end slavery |
underground railroad | helped slaves reach freedom |
Harriet Tubman | started Underground Railroad |
Missouri Compromise | Maine admitted as free state |
Compromise of 1850 | California admitted as free state |
Fugitive Slave Law | judges were paid to send blacks back to south |
John Brown | murdered 5 men |
Bleeding Kansas | name of Kansas in 1856 |
Dred Scott | former slave who went to court |
Harper's Ferry, Virginia | Where Brown led slave revolt |