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Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis was a Mexican war hero, U.S. senator from Mississippi, U.S. secretary of war, and president of the Confederate States of America for the Duration of the Civil War. Davis chose Robert E. Lee as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. He preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. -
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman was an American Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare. He led Union forces through the South, marching through Georgia and the Carolinas. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave that helped lead other slaves to freedom. Tubman created and was a conductor of the Underground Railroad. Tubman made 19 trips and lead over 300 slaves to freedom in Canada -
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was a commanding general that led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States. He worked to remove slavery and implement Congressional Reconstruction. -
Stonewall Jackson
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was one of the South's most successful generals during the American Civil War. He fought in the Mexican War. Jackson lost an arm and died after he was accidentally shot by Confederate troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act made it so these states can vote on whether they want slavery to be legal or not. This law cancelled the Missouri Compromise. -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown lead a small group on a raid against federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He was attempting to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery. -
Election of 1860
1860 was the second time that the Republican Party had a candidate in an election because they were very new. Abraham Lincoln won the popular vote even though almost no one voted for him in any of the 10 slave states. The south left the US because they were afraid that Lincoln would abolish slavery even though he said that he wouldn't. -
Confederate States of America is formed
The Confederate States of America was a collection of 11 states that seceded from the Union States. The Confederate States of America was lead by Jefferson Davis. -
Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter took place near Charleston, South Carolina. The walls of the fort were 5 feet thick. The south spilt from the north and there a fort on the south but the north said it was theirs so they started a battle for who gains control of it -
Civil War
The American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. This battle arose because of the disagreement whether there should be slavery in America and because the southern Confederate States just decided to leave. -
Battle of Bull Run
The Union and Confederate armies clashed in Virginia. It began when about 35,000 Union troops marched from the federal capital in Washington, D.C. to strike a Confederate force of 20,000 along a small river known as Bull Run -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states (Arkansas, Tennessee, South Caroline, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida) "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Gettysburg
This battle was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle ever fought in North America. This battle involved around 85,000 men in the Union's Army. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
This was a movement of the Union army troops of General William Tecumseh Sherman to the Georgia seacoast, with the object of destroying Confederate supplies. -
13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States- including former enslaved people- and guaranteed all citizens "equal protection of the laws" -
15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment reads, "The right of citizen of the United States to vote shall not be denied of abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."