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Pre-Civil WarEvents

Ohio in theCivil War

Politics andProtest

Morgan’sRaiders

HodgePodge

Many Ohioans sought fortune here.

California

This was issued during the Compromise of 1850

to calm the proslavery South

Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

One of the three stipulations in the

Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

1.Federal offense to interfere in the

capture and return of fugitive slaves

2.Required citizens to assist Federal Marshals when

called upon3.Fine was $1,000

•The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 inspired her to write the novel •The stories that she heard from runaway slaves and Underground Railroad conductors while she lived in Cincinnati formed the basis of her book

Harriet Beecher Stowe

•Issues of slavery would be decided upon “popular sovereignty” under this Act•This would overturn the earlier Missouri Compromise which prohibited slavery in this area

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Won the Presidential Election of 1860

Abraham Lincoln

President of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

First shots of the Civil War were fired here

Fort Sumter

Ohio’s Governor at the outbreak of the Civil War who had to deal with the initial organization of the States militia

Gov. William Dennison

•Stated that slaves in those areas still in rebellion

against the US would be free

•Did not free slaves in border states or in Union

occupied areas•Converted the war into a “war to free the slaves”

Emancipation Proclamation

With the passage of this, a man could avoid service by

paying a $300 commutation fee or

by hiring a substitute

The Federal Conscription Act

1863

Hundreds of Ohio blacks went to this Bay State to enroll in their black regiments

Massachusetts

Major General Ambrose Burnside issued this, labeling two classes of “enemies of our country”

General Order No. 38

One of two Union victories that were said to have turned the tide of the war

Vicksburg and Gettysburg

One of Ohio’s most famous anti-war protesters who was arrested and then later sent behind southern lines to the Confederacy

Vallandigham

Morgan’s Raiders entered Ohio near

here…

Cincinnati orHamilton-Butler

County Line

The only battle of the Civil War fought on Ohio’s

soil

The Battle of Buffington

Island

The Confederate goal of Morgan’s

Raid

To cause disorder among the Union

military or show that the North was

vulnerable

The Ohio town where Morgan will surrender

West Point

The Prison where Morgan will be held and eventually

escape from

Camp Chase

One of two places we talked about where John Brown will display his anti-slavery viewpoint

Bleeding Kansas or

Harper’s Ferry

The court case which decided that the federal government did not have the power to limit where

citizens could take their property, including slaves

Dred Scott v.Sandford

Won the Presidential

Election of 1856

Buchanan

Lincoln’s political party

Republican

Ohio concentrated its defenses on these two

items

Cincy and RR