Secession
The middle ground between supporting the Union or seceding with the South.
What are Border States?
Trained nurses, collected medical supplies, and equipped hospitals.
What is the U.S. Sanitary Commission?
The North and South are bound together.
What is Lincoln's view on secession?
People who pushed westward during the war.
What are pioneers?
Inventions that caused the North to expand economically.
What is laborsaving machinery?
Border state voters must walk between armed soldiers with a colored ballot.
What is supervised voting?
National debt, jointly held federal territories, and the Underground Railroad.
What are controversies created by secession?
Enabled the government to expand the trans-continental railroad.
What is the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862?
Raised Northen revenue and superseded the Tariff of 1857.
What is the Morrill Tariff Act?
Stealing federal weapons and developing their own ironworks.
How did the South obtain weapons?
Anti-Unionists can be arrested and held without trial.
What is the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus?
European powers moved on to the United States.
What is the result of possible secession?
Enabled citizens to claim federally owned land in the West.
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
Large amounts of grain are sent abroad.
What dethroned King Cotton?
An effective leader which was chosen by Lincoln.
Who is Ulysses Simpson Grant?
Prevented the South from receiving supplies.
What is a Union blockade?
A precaution taken to avoid Border States joining the South.