Causes of the Civil War
This was the primary cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
His victory in the election 1860 led to the southern states seceding from the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Lincoln issued this to free slaves from the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This is where the fighting of the Civil War officially began.
What is Fort Sumter?
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment is significant for this reason:
What is they are the most famous example of the an all black regiment that fought during the war?
This radical abolitionist led the abolitionist retaliation in "Bleeding Kansas as well as the Raid on Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
The Commander of the Confederate forces.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This amendment reads as follows, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
What is the 13th Amendment?
This battle was the "bloodiest single-day" in American history.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
The Republican stance on slavery entering 1860/
What is ending the expansion, but permitting slavery where it currently existed?
This act negated the Missouri Compromise by declaring that popular sovereignty would determine the slavery question in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
This rugged Union general rose up the ranks throughout the war to become "Lincoln's General" and command all Union forces.
Who is U.S. Grant?
160 acres of federal land, so long as it was improved over five years
The (First) Battle of the Bull Run signified this to the country.
That the Civil War would not be a quick and easy conflict.
This event of the Union general making "Georgia howl" and enacting total war across Georgia to the ocean is remembered by the following name :
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
The decision in this landmark Supreme Court case determined that slaves were "property, not people"
What is the Dred Scott case
Scott v. Sanford
This Union commander constantly butted heads with Lincoln as he was slow to act and eventually ran against Lincoln for the Presidency.
Who is George B. McClellan?
The Emancipation Proclamation was limited in this way.
1. Did not immediately free slaves in Southern control
2. Did not free slaves in the border states
Vicksburg was considered such a critical win during the war because it provided this:
What is control of the Mississippi River?
This Union strategy was designed to "squeeze" the Confederacy into submission by gaining control of ports, rivers, and railroads.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The Fugitive Slave Act increased the power of slaveholders in the following three ways:
What is
1. slave catchers could go into the North and bring freed slaves back to their masters
2. Judges were incentivized to declare accused African Americans as escaped slaves
3. Many African Americans who were never slaves were brought to plantations
The location Grant officially accepted Lee's surrender.
What is Appomattox Court House?
Lincoln's political genius is demonstrated through the Emancipation Proclamation in this way:
He issued it as one of the "war powers" the Constitution grants him as Commander-in-Chief not as the executive of the U.S.
The Battle of Gettysburg was significant as it signaled this:
What is that the Confederacy would never become an independent nation and foreign nations would stay out of the war?
This caused Lincoln to suspend the writ of habeas corpus.
What is pro-Confederates speaking out against the Union in Maryland?