Made it the responsibility of the North to return escaped slaves

Supreme Court case that said slaves were property, not citizens

Allowed new territories to vote on whether to become a free or slave state; led to "Bleeding Kansas"

Withdrawal from the Union

Loyalty to one's region rather than the country as a whole

USA, North, Yankee

CSA, South, Rebels

War fought between North and South from 1861-1865 over slavery

President of the Union during the Civil War; 1st Republican president; Emancipation Proclamation; Gettysburg Address

Commanding general of the Northern army that won the war

President of the Confederacy during the Civil War

Commanding general of the Southern army

Beginning of the Civil War (1861)

Bloodiest single day, Union victory convinced Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

Order issued by Abraham Lincoln declaring slaves in all rebelling states free

Turning point of the Civil War; Union victory

Union victory giving the North control of the Mississippi River

Site of the Confederate surrender (1865)