CLM - nation divided

By Connor M
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    Cival war

  • Kansas/Nebraska Act

    created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement.

  • John Brown

    Led group of abolitionists to try and free slaves

  • Anaconda Plan

    name of the plan to subdue the seceding states in the American Civil War

  • Fort Sumter

    he bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.

  • William Tecumseh Sherman

    American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65).

  • Gettysburg Address

    speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, considered one of the best-known in American history.

  • Scalawag

    southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the Civil War.