By: Liam

• Their economies North and South affected their views about slavery so they split up into two different countries.

• By 1860 the South produced about two-thirds of the world’s supply of cotton.

• Nat turner- led a small band of slaves in Southampton County, Virginia to be free.

• Fredrick Douglas- One slave that escaped to the North and then spoke out against slavery.

• Newspapers and books play an important role in getting people to join the movement to end slavery.

• The Underground Railroad wasn’t railroad at all it was just a series of routes for slaves to escape.

• William Loyd Garrison- began a newspaper called the Liberator that helped people to see how bad slavery was.

• Abolitionist- someone who wanted to abolish, or end slavery in the United States.

• When Lincoln was elected president in 1860, one by one Southern states gradually leave the Union to form their own country, The Confederate States of America.

• Since Lincoln was trying to end slavery in the United States everywhere, the South would not give up their slaves without a fight.

• President Lincoln vows not to let Union property be taken by confederate troops.

• Fort Sumter in South Carolina is Union property , and confederate takeover of fort makes armed conflict a certainty

• Antietam – a fort that many people from the Union and Confederate died

• Emancipation Proclamation-a document that allowed Abraham Lincoln to free slaves

• William Tecumseh Sherman- now in charge of Union forces.

• Petersburg- Both forces fought in a standoff that would last well into 1865.

• Fourteenth Amendment-made black citizens of the U.S guaranteed rights.

• Andrew Johnson- a democrat from Tennessee that became president of the South.

• Sixteenth president of the U.S who swore to end slavery.

• Was born in Illinois • Was a lawyer before becoming president