Social Tensions
This concept described the growing loyalty Americans felt to their region rather than the nation as a whole.
Sectionalism
The election of this Republican candidate in 1860 triggered Southern secession.
Abraham Lincoln
This act intensified conflict between the South and the North and allowed slave owner's to apprehend enslaved people if they escaped to Northern or Southern states
Fugitive Slave Act
This executive order freed enslaved people in Confederate-held territory.
Emancipation Proclamation
This agency helped formerly enslaved people with education, labor contracts, and aid.
Freedmen’s Bureau
This 1854 law repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed settlers to vote on slavery.
Kansas–Nebraska Act
This event marked the official start of the Civil War in April 1861.
Fort Sumter
Leader of the Confederate military
Robert E Lee
At the beginning of the war, it was unclear to many who would win. The South initially though they would have international support from _________ and ___________
France and GB
This amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
14th Amendment
This violent conflict in the 1850s showed that popular sovereignty often led to bloodshed rather than compromise.
Bleeding Kansas
This war over territory west of the frontier accelerated tensions over slavery
The Mexican American War
This 1863 battle is often considered the turning point of the Civil War.
Battle of Gettysburg
This strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and split the Confederacy in two.
The Anaconda Plan
This economic system trapped many African Americans in cycles of debt.
Sharecropping
This Supreme Court decision ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
This political party collapsed in the 1850s due to sectional disagreements over slavery.
Whig Party
Lincoln attempted to stave off the war by maintaining a ________ attitude, trying to appease both the North and the South
Centrist/Moderate
The bloodiest single day of the war; gave the Union a strategic victory and allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle of Antietam
Extra-judicial legalized murder of African Americans in post-war South
Lynching
This 1858 series of debates highlighted the national divide over slavery’s expansion.
Lincoln–Douglas Debates
This failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion increased Southern fears of abolitionism.
John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry
Heightened Southern fears of slave revolts and strengthened pro-slavery defenses, while increasing Northern moral opposition.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Demonstrated total war by targeting Southern infrastructure and civilian morale.
Sherman's March to the Sea
____ of the newly elected African American congressmen were formerly enslaved.
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