Causes
California is admitted as a free state
Popular Sovereignty used in Kansas - Nebraska territory.
Fugitive Slave Law
Slave trade was abolished in Washington DC
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the 16th President of the United States?
Who was the president during the Civil War?
Bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
The action of making someone a slave; subjugation
What is enslavement?
Location of the Confederacy's surrender to the Union.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
Enslaved people couldn't sue the U.S. government because they weren't considered citizens.
Expanded slavery by making it legal throughout the U.S.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
First battle of the Civil War.
What was Fort Sumter?
The formal giving up of rights, property, or territory by a state or country.
What is cession?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Anti-Slavery & pro-slavery groups sent settlers
Mini Civil War because pro & anti slavery groups fought over the expansion of slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Turning point in the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
People vote to make decisions in their local & national governments.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Maine admitted as a free state.
Missouri admitted as a slave state.
Kept balance in the Senate equal between free & slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
A northern Congressman proposed a ban on slavery in all territory gained in the Mexican Cession.
South viewed this as an attack on slavery by the North.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Abolitionist
Raided Harpers Ferry for weapons
Arrested & hanged
North rang bells when he was hanged & the South was surprised & appalled.
Divided the Confederacy in half.
The Union took control of the Mississippi after a 47 day siege.
What was the Battle of Vicksburg.
The action of withdrawing or leaving a union or organization.
What is secession?
The Union wanted to surround the Confederacy by sea & land blockades.
The Union wanted to take control of Mississippi River to divide Confederate forces.
Union wanted to ambush & surround the Confederacy and their capital.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
North was willing to do whatever was necessary to stop the expansion of slavery.
South was focused on keeping slavery because their economy relied on the work of enslaved people.
The west remained focused on establishing their own states and the people living there were concerned with making money in the gold rush.
What is sectionalism?
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
John Breckenridge
John Bell
Who are the candidates for president in the election of 1860?
Put these battles in sequential order (first to last).
Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Antietam, Bull Run, Sherman's March to the Sea, Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Sherman's March to the Sea
Undue concern with local interests at the expense of the general well-being.
What is Sectionalism?
2 parts to this prompt:
April 12, 1861 - April 9, 1865
4 years (almost to the day)
What is how long was the Civil War?