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Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugtive Slave Act helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. People accused of being fugitives under this law would be held without an arrest warrent. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and highly influenced England's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition, intensified sectional conflict. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Act that created Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing states to determine whether slavery would be allowed in new territories -
Dred Scott Case
A Missouri slave sued for his freedom and the Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the south no longer felt like it had a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union. -
Fort Sumter
Where the first shots were fired that began the civil war. -
Battle of Bull Run
Union retreated, Confederate victory. Showed that both sides needed training and war would be long and bloody -
Battle of Shiloh
Confederate forces suprised union troops & drove them across the Tennesee river; union got backup and won the battle but it was one of the most bloody battles in the civil war -
Battle of Antietam
Civil War battle in which the North succeeded in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties -
Battle of Gettysburg
Union leaders defeated General Lee and was turning point battle during the Civil War. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Union gains control of Mississippi, confederacy split in two, Grant takes lead of Union armies, total war begins -
Gettysburg Address
Speech given by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War at the dedication of the national cemetery on the site of the battle. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
During the civil war, a devastating total war military campaign, led by union general William Tecumseh Sherman, that involved marching 60,000 union troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah and destroying everything along there way. -
13th Amendment
Amendment that abolished slavery in the U.S. and made it illegal. -
14th Amendment
Amendment that granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law
