Compromises
The issue that required the most amount of compromises before the civil war was
slavery
Name one side of the Civil War
The Union (The United States of America)
The confederacy ( The Confederate States of America)
How was the debate over slavery finally settled in the United States
The Civil War
What is the word that describes loyalty to one's region over the country
sectionalism
What political party was Lincoln a part of
The Republican Party
Bleeding Kansas
The Civil War was started by the attack on Fort _____
Sumter
The 1860 Election showed the United States was divided over.
slavery
What were the two types of states before the Civil War
Free States
Slave States
Lincoln became popular because of what series of debates?
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
What is the name of the line that showed where slavery was allowed and banned?
36 30 line
The First Battle at Bull Run showed that the Civil War would ....
-be long
-not end soon
Where are disagreements between states solved
the Supreme Court
How was the power balance between the two different types of states before the civil war
having an equal number of free and slave states
To end slavery, Lincoln pushed for what amendment?
13th amendment
The Kansas-Nebraska Act canceled the Missouri Compromise by....
allowing slavery above the 36 30 line
The Confederates ( Military Leadership)
The Union (More Resources)
The Dred Scott Decision said that black Americans were not
Citizens
In what organization did the North and South fight for voting power in
congress
The Emancipation Proclamation did not free enlsave people in what area?
Border States
The Compromise of 1850 made the South happy by
- passing the 1850 fugitive slave act
-creating a law that made it a requirement to return escaped slaves
try to invade the the union/north
What amendment reversed the effects of the Dred Scott decision
The 14th Amendment, which gave citizenship to those born in the U.S
The Civil War made it clear who was more powerful.
the federal government
Which founding document is Lincoln referencing here:
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The Declaration of Independence