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Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She helped dozens of slaves escape to freedom in the North.
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This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed all new territories to choose whether the allowed slavery or not. -
John Brown led a revolt on a federal armory in Harper's Ferry, in current day West Virginia, to try to start an armed uprising to abolish slavery.
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This was the election that Abraham Lincoln was elected in. He ran against Stephen Douglas, and the main issue of the election was slavery. -
This was the group of 11 states that broke away from the Union to make their own country. They supported slavey, and were disbanded in 1865. -
Fort Sumter was a fort surrounded by Confederate troops. When a Northern supply ship tried to reach the fort, the South fired on the fort, starting the Civil War.
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The Civil War started after 11 states seceded from the Union and made their own country where slavery was legal, so the North fought to try to make them rejoin the Union.
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This was the first major battle in the Civil War. It was expected to be an easy Northern victory, but the South fought and got a decisive victory.
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Jefferson Davis ran unopposed for President of the Confederate States of America, and, because he was unopposed, he won.
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This was the declaration that Abraham Lincoln made that declared all slaves held by Southern states were free from that point on.
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This was a major battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the turning point of the Civil War. The Northern victory gave them morale and stopped Robert E Lee's invasion of the North.
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Northern General William Sherman marched 60,000 men through the south. The purpose was to scare the civilian population into giving up the war.
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This is where Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant, ending the Civil War
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While attending a play at Petersen House, Washington D.C, Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth, and died a day later.
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This amendment declared slaver unconstitutional and abolished it in the United States.
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This gave equal civil and legal rights to all African Americans, free or previously enslaved
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This gave any citizen of the U.S. the right to vote, regardless of race, color, or whether they had been enslaved or not.
