Road to the Civil War

An agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery leaders in the U.S. that resulted in slavery being banned north of the 36^th parallel.

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to choose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Jefferson Davis

The 16^th President of the United States and leader of the Union through the Civil War!

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Abolitionist

• Fort Sumter

An American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865.

• Harper's Ferry

• Abolitionist

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

A person who fought to end slavery.

• Abolitionist

• Fort Sumter

• Confederacy

• Abraham Lincoln

Place in Virginia where John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal. *He and his followers hoped to distribute weapons to slaves in Virginia and start a slave rebellion. His plan failed and he was later executed.

• Missouri Compromise

• Confederacy

• Harper's Ferry

• Fort Sumter

Union military post in South Carolina which was taken over by the Confederacy in 1861. Officially the first battle of the Civil War.

• Fort Sumter

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Confederacy

• Secede

Condition of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else. *About 4 million slaves in the south in 1860; 1/3 of Southern farmers owned slaves; most worked in fields on plantations

• Slavery

• Secede

• Harper's Ferry

• Morse Code

The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 and fought against the Union in the Civil War.

• Union

• Confederacy

• Secede

• Border States

Device that allowed messages to be sent by wires over long distances

*Helped Union send battle information.

• Email

• Instant Messaging

• Morse Code

• Telegram