Sectionalism
This is loyalty to one's own region(ex. North, South, West, etc...)
What is SECTIONALISM?
This book help express the evils of slavery to many who had not experienced it before. It was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What is UNCLE TOM'S CABIN?
He was the POLITICAL leader of North/Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is the location of the surrender of the Confederates to the Union.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
Name the 3 branches of the US Federal government
What is the 13th amendment?What is the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
This was a tax on imported goods.
What are tariffs?
This law required Northerners to participate in rounding up of runaway slaves even if they were anti-slavery...
What is the FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT?
He was the final MILITARY leader of the North/Union.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
He was the MILITARY leader of the South.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This branch of the national government interprets the laws?
What is judicial?
This region benefited from protective tariffs, therefor was happy when the federal government enforced them.
What is the NORTH?
The rise of this new political party frightened Southerns as most of members were abolitionists and northerners.
What is the Republican Party?
He was the POLITICAL LEADER (President) of the South/Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This side had the advantage of a larger population and industrial strength.
What is the Union/North?
What does Bi-cameral mean and ?
What is a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses.
This describes the fight between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers
What is Bleeding Kansas
This is defined as each local/state government determining what is best for its people not the national government. The right to nullify laws would fall under this category.
What is STATE'S RIGHTS?
This was the location of the first shot of the war.
What is Fort Sumter?
This event was important because it the turning point of the war and was the South's last chance to keep the fight going in Northern lands.
What is Gettysburg?
Name the two houses or bodies of the legislative branch.
What is Senate and House of Representatives
This Supreme court case ruling made slaves property and stated they did not have any rights.
What is Dred Scott V. Sanford
This act made the debate over slavery a popular Sovereignty issue.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
This is why the battle of Vicksburg was so important.
It gave the Union control over the entire Mississippi River, completed the Anaconda plan
President Lincoln declared that all the slaves in the Confederacy were now freed. (what was this called?)
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is in charge of declaring war?
Congress