Reasons for the Civil War
Slavery and states’ rights
What are disagreements between the North and South
Why was Holly Springs strategically important during the Civil War?
What is major railroad and supply center
Cotton
What is the cash crop that dominated Mississippi's economy
January 1, 1863.
What is the day the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
Education, voting and participating in politics
What are new opportunities that formerly enslaved people gained during Reconstruction in Mississippi
The idea that slavery should be allowed in the new territories and states.
What is tension of Westward Expansion
A Confederate cavalry attack on Holly Springs
What is Van Dorn's Raid
Damaged homes, businesses, railroads, and roads
What is damage to Mississippi caused by the war
Enslaved people in the areas of the Confederacy still in rebellion were free.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation declare about enslaved people in Confederate-held territory
Regaining political control of Mississippi
What is the "Mississippi Plan?"
A strong loyalty to one’s region or section of the country
What is sectionalism
Food shortage, supply shortage, and family separation
What are ways the war directly affected families in Holly Springs
Sharecropping
What is the new farming system when the slavery was outlawed.
African American men to join the Union Army and Navy
What is how did the Proclamation change the composition and strength of the Union Arm
Northerners became less willing to use federal power to protect Reconstruction governments and Black citizens' rights.
What is a political compromise
The North had a more industrial economy.
The South depended heavily on agriculture.
What are economic differences between the Union and Confederate States (North and South)
Connected important cities and allowed armies to move troops, weapons, food, and other supplies
What are the Memphis Railways
Destroyed plantations, debt, and poverty
What are economic hardships planters and poor whites faced in Mississippi after the war
A wartime executive order
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
Using violence, intimidation, and groups such as the Ku Klux Klan
What is White Resistance
Cotton production relied on enslaved labor.
What is Mississippi's defense to "state rights"
Destroyed supplies and buildings, Food and supply shortages, Damaged railroad or transportation
How the destruction of plantations and the loss of enslaved labor would affect state revenue
Fewer cotton crops would be produced and sold, reducing income from trade and taxes.
What is how the destruction of plantations and the loss of enslaved labor would affect state revenue
Strengthening the union Army
What is political reasons Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Poll taxes, literacy tests, intimidation, and violence
What are methods to restrict black political rights.