In the case of Dred Scott, the Supreme Court ruled...
He was not free and because he was not a citizen could not have a lawsuit at all
Who was the President of the Union, what was his main goal at the start of the war and how did it change as the war progressed?
Abraham Lincoln and to keep the Union together.
Changed to end slavery
During what decade did the Civil War take place?
1860s
Which was the first Compromise to deal with the issue of slavery that said any state that comes in as a slave state must have a partner state come in as a free state and created the 36-30 line that was designed for all state above it to be free and below it to be slave.
The Missouri Compromise
Who was the major Union General at the conclusion of the war?
Ulysses S. Grant
Most Civil War soldiers died not from battle but from this
Disease
Who wroteUncle Tom’s Cabin and why did it anger so many people?
Harriet Beacher Stowe and Because it depicted the evils of slavery
What about the northern economy made slavery less necessary and how could they have considered hypocritical?
The north was more industrial and didn't have large plantations yet still benefited from resources harvested by enslaved people
Who was the major Southern General?
Robert E. Lee
Feeling that their state's rights were in jeopardy was a belief of which side before the Civil War started?
The South/Confederacy
What was the name of the union strategy to destroy not just the south's soldiers but all its land, infrastructure and resources?
Total War
“You have an oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, which I shall have the mostsolemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it.”
Who said this and what speech was it a part of?
Abraham Lincoln, his first Inaugural Address
Which Act or Law gave people Popular Sovereignty when it came to states entering the Union?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
According to the Gettysburg Address, "A great task still remained" before the country. What was it and how did this change the purpose of the war?
To make a America a country where all people are free and now the war was about a new birth of freedom for the nation as opposed to just bringing the South back
The battle that was the turning point for the war in the West along the Mississippi River
The Battle of Vicksburg
President Lincoln disliked this Commander of the Union army. Who was it and why?
General McClellan because he was too cautious