Tax on imports

Division of the Northern and Southern regions

People who wanted to end slavery

Bring charges against a public official

Large crops to sell

Northerners who went South after the war

A large property that depended on slave labor

An invention that was created by Eli Whitney. It helped to process cotton. As a result, more slaves were needed.

The transportation of Africans to the Americas to be used for labor.

This forced Northerners to help slave owners recover runaway slaves.

This allowed Maine to be admitted as free, Missouri to be admitted as slave. It prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Purchase North of 36 30.

This stated that CA would enter as a free state. New Mexico and Utah could decide for themselves (popular sovereignty). Slave trading in Washington DC was banned.

A slave who claimed he was free upon his owner's death because he had resided in free territory. The Supreme Court ruled against him and said he was property.

This line separates the Northern and Southern interests

This was a series of hideouts that helped slaves escape North toward Canada

Republican President who believed strongly in preserving the union. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

A Civil War nurse who founded the American Red Cross

An escaped slave who became a writer. He is known for writing the abolitionist paper, North Star.

He was a Union general who destroyed much of Georgia

This woman wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and changed a lot of Northerner's minds about slavery

A former slave who is the most well known conductor for the Underground Railroad

President of the Confederacy

Abolitionist who participated in "Bleeding Kansas" and led the raid of Harper's Ferry

This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Resigned from the US Army because he was loyal to Virginia. He led the Confederate Army.

A term for northerners

Capital of the Union

Capital of the Confederacy

A term for southerners

This is where the war began

The South believed this country would help them

A racist organization who went to great lengths to prevent African Americans from voting

Becomes president after Lincoln is assassinated. He missed being impeached by 1 vote.

This political party wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction

This organization was established during Reconstruction to help adjust slaves to freedom

This amendment abolished slavery

This amendment made African Americans citizens

This amendment allowed African American men the right to vote

This was where Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the Civil War

Also known as Sharpsburg, this was the first battle on Northern soil. It built Union confidence.

Also known as Manassas. First major battle of the Civil War. The Confederates won this battle.

This is considered the biggest turning point in the Civil War. The Union wins this battle.

The result of this battle was that the Union gained control of the Mississippi River and the Confederacy became physically divided in half.

People moved to this region to vote on whether it should be slave or not and this led to a bloody conflict between pro-slavery groups and anti-slavery groups.

Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederacy with this statement.

This is where John Brown and others raided the arsenal to obtain weapons to help start a slave revolt.

This is when a public official is murdered

These were the first ironclad ships to battle. At this point, wooden ships became outdated.

This is when something is cut off. For example, when the North prevented the South from getting war materials.