Secession
The election of this person led the south to finally secede from the union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The right for new states to vote for or against slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This battle was the most decisive and led confederate general Lee to give up on any ideas of invading the North.
What is Gettysburg?
The name Kansas earned after all the violence that took place after border ruffians entered and 2 separate opposing governments were set up to fight over the slavery issue.
this senator gave an antislavery speech that led to him being beat with a cane
Who is Charles Sumner?
A draft that forced men to serve in the army.
What is conscription?
What is the underground railroad?
Winning this battle allowed the North to check off one of their goals for the war, to cut the confederacy in two, this victory gave the North control of the Mississippi river.
What is Vicksburg?
this group objected to the competition that freed slaves would bring that would impact white workers and the labor force, as well as, they supported racist laws prohibiting settlement by blacks in their communities and denying them the right to vote.
What are Free Soilers?
the first state to secede from the union
What is south carolina?
How many African Americans fought for the North in the War?
What is 180,000?
This was passed to eliminate the south's main resource of the war.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Grant and Sherman called for this strategy in order to destroy the south's will to fight.
What is total war?
this new group was united in opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act and in keeping slavery out of the territories. they took in Free-Soilers, antislavery Whigs and Democrats, and nativists, mostly from the North.
Who was the Republican Party?
This former senator from Mississippi was elected as the president of the confederate states
Who is Jefferson Davis?
3000 women served in the union army in this capacity.
What was nursing?
this radical abolitionist led an attack on an arsenal at Harpers Ferry and was later convicted and hung.
Who was John Brown?
What is Georgia?
after this was ratified it changed the constitution to say.. 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
What is the 13th Amendment?
These states did not secede from the Union.
What are Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware?
The bloodiest single day battle of the War.
What is Antietam?
the decision in this court case, that was initiated by a slave, stated that slaves lacked any legal standing to sue in federal court because he was not, and never could be, a citizen. Moreover, the Court ruled that being in free territory did not make a slave free.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
Grant and Lee met in this small Virginia town where Lee surrendered and the war ended.
What is Appomattox Court House?
This 26 yr old actor and southern sympathizer, who was also at John Brown's court hearing and hanging, shot and killed Abe Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?