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Fugitive Slave Act
Says that if anyone helps a slave escape slavery or sees a slave escape and doesn't report it, that person will be fined or go to jail for 6 months. Cops were having to arrest runaway slaves. This also led to free blacks becoming slaves. This was a failed compromise during the civil war. -
Harriet Tubman
She was an abolitionist. She helped slaves get their freedom through the underground railroad. She also helped Susan B. Anthony with women's suffrage. -
Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis was the president. Southern constitution emphasizes states rights and limits power of central government. It also interfered with the Southern war effort. This was a result of the battle at Fort Sumter. -
Battle of Bull Run
It was the first major battle of the civil war. Confederate cavalry forced the Union's troops to retreat across the Bull Run. 3,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing. -
Ulysses S. Grant
He was a general-in-chief. When the civil war began, he joined the Union army. He took the surrender of the Confederate army. His army won at Vicksburg, Mississippi. He was named Secretary of War and was elected the 18th president of the U.S. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Act by President Lincoln declaring that all slaves in states that were in rebellion would be free as of January 1, 1863. It did not free slaves in border states. This redefined the purpose of the war. -
Gettysburg Address
It was a speech given by Abraham Lincoln following the Battle of Gettysburg. He invoked the principles of human equality stated in the Declaration of Independence. It was the dedication ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania and it marked the end of the civil war. -
Surrender at Appomattox
Confederate Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the Appomattox court house. The South can go back home. The civil war was over.
