Civil War Battles
This Battle was the bloodiest ONE day of the Civil War. It took place in Maryland with over 6000 dead and 16,000 injured in one morning.
The Battle of Antietam
The North had fewer railroads than the south. True or False
False
The main economic output for the south
farming
Which side (North or South) had significantly more railroads?
The North
The first Southern state to secede from the United States
South Carolina
William Sherman forced the Confederates to abandon this important Southern city on his march to the sea.
Atlanta
The North was able to produce more finished products than the south because the North had more _______.
Factories
This document freed all slaves in Southern states that had seceded the Union.
Emancipation Proclamation
The South relied heavily on agriculture and especially which cash crop?
Cotton
This compromise in 1820 allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state
Missouri Compromise
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
Fort Sumter
This man became the leader of the Union Army after General McClellan showed he was slow to change his battle tactics
Ulysses S. Grant
This term is used to describe the Southern states leaving the United States
Secession/Seceded
What was the South's major advantage during the Civil War?
Military Leaders/Experience
This Supreme Court case stated the following:
1. Slaves are property
2. Blacks are not citizens and don't have legal protection
3. Slavery can't be prohibited
The Dred Scott Case
This battle gave the Union complete control of the Mississippi River
Battle of Vicksburg
Abraham Lincoln's main goal as president during the Civil War was...
To preserve the Union
How does the population of the south affect its efficiency in the Civil War?
They didn't have enough people to fight and produce equipment and supplies
1. Why did the North want slavery to be abolished?
2. Why did the South want slavery to remain legal?
The North thought that slavery was morally wrong.
The South wanted to keep slavery legal because slaves made them money.
This was added as a part of the Compromise of 1850, which allowed California to enter as a free state as long as Northern states promised to return runaway slave...what was this law called?
The Fugitive Slave Laws
This battle is often called the "turning point" of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
The Union leader who famously marched to the sea during the Civil War (and burned much of the South to the ground).
William T. Sherman
What city in the South was a major Railroad city during the Civil War?
Atlanta
The term used to describe the North and South caring about their regions more than the entire USA as a whole.
Sectionalism
Popular sovereignty will lead to violence in this territory and will show that the issue of slavery was equally divided...
Kansas-Nebraska