Battles
This law forced Northerners and Southerners to return runaway slaves to their slave owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What is the Union?
This was one of the major advantage that the South enjoyed in the beginning of the War over the North.
What is better military leaders (military colleges)?
What was the impact of Sherman's March to the Sea?
The Union destroyed the South's resources and desire to continue fighting by burning and pillaging.
I helped aid runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
What is popular sovereignty?
Where were slaves freed under the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is in the Confederacy/states under rebellion (not the border states).
The importance of the Battle of Gettysburg.
This act allowed California to enter as a free state.
Who is the Compromise of 1850?
Name two events/ideas that increased Sectionalism between the North and South.
Dred Scott decision, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, popular sovereignty.
What is the definition of a secondary source?
The author did not witness the events discussed.
General Grant seiged this city and successfully won which split the Confederacy in half, cutting off their supplies.
What is Vicksburg?
This event led directly to the Secession Crisis in which South Carolina followed by 10 other states seceded from the Union.
What is the Election of 1860?
What is that it should not spread but he would not abolish it in states.
This was one of the major advantage that the North enjoyed in the beginning of the War over the South.
The Union had more supplies and resources than the Confederacy.
This battle signaled to both North and South that the war would be a long conflict requiring large armies.
What is The Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
I was a strong Union military leader who conquered Vicksburg and became Commander and Chief of the Union army in 1864. Also, I served as the 18th President of the United States.
Who is General Ulysses S. Grant?
The South liked the Dred Scott decision because it claimed the government could not limit slavery in new territories.
What does "Total War" mean? Give an example of what the Union did.
Total War means to take out the resources of the enemy so they can no longer keep fighting. Sherman seized Atlanta and marched to the sea burning everything in his path.