Civil War People
The Supreme Court ruled against the ___________ case, in which a slave sued his owners to receive his freedom.
A person who opposed slavery and wanted to end it immediately was called an ___?___
abolitionist
Dred Scott, a slave, sued his owners to receive his freedom, but the __?_________ ruled against him.
the Supreme Court
The election of 1860 meant this for many Southerners. _?________
It meant the end of their way of life, because they did not know how to live without slaves.
This Confederate general stood "like a stone wall" during the fighting at the Battle of Bull Run.
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
The Republican candidate in the 1860 election was __________?________________
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis was president of what group?
the Confederacy (Confederate States of America)
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Confederate States of America
Winfield Scott proposed a blockade and an attack on the South called the __________?_______.
Anaconda Plan.
Who was the Northern Democrat who ran for president in 1860 and was for keeping slavery in the states that wanted it.
Stephen Douglas
Robert E. Lee was the most famous Confederate general and became the superintendent of this.
West Point
On December 20, 1860, this state voted to be the first to secede from the Union.
South Carolina
In 1860, the Confederate States of America chose Montgomery, AL as their first capital, but in 1861, after Virginia joined the Confederacy, they moved their capital to which city?
The Confederates.
This 1860 presidential candidate and his party said that the Constitution permitted slavery. Who was he?
John Bell
Name two of the advantages for the Confederacy during the war.
The soldiers in the South were fighting for their homeland.
The South had more formally trained leaders.
Which group, Union or Confederate, had railroads, factories, and a navy as advantages during the Civil War?
Union
The principle that the federal government has only limited authority over each state is called ____?___
States' rights
Confederate forces attacked this place on April 12, 1861, starting the Civil War.
Fort Sumpter, S.C.
Republican president who opposed slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
On what did the Southern states base their economy?
Slavery
Battle of Bull Run in Manasses, Virginia
List Lincoln's three promises.
He promised to:
1) Leave slavery alone in the South,
2) to guard federal property, and
3) to enforce federal laws.
Union general who was trusted by Lincoln and helped win the Civil War for the North.
Ulysses S Grant