Secession
The state that seceded first.
What is South Carolina?
What is Manifest Destiny?
The methods of transportation in the North were more advanced compared to the South.
What is railroads
The South's economy relied on a crop to keep its economy stable.
What is cotton?
The year in which Abraham Lincoln elected.
What is the election of 1860?
The Souths arguments for session
What is state and slavery rights?
This Act became a major investor in the transcontinental railroad and led to rapid colonization of the West.
What is the Pacific Railroad act?
Offered a position in command of armies and to be a lieutenant but turned it down.
Who is General Robert E Lee?
The way the South negatively financed the war leading to inflation.
What is printing paper money?
The debates that led Abraham Lincoln to be considered as a Republican presidential candidate
What is The Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
Lincoln's position on the session.
What is wholely impractical?
An idea used in the Compromise of 1850, that allowed citizens in territories to vote and decide if they wanted to accept or prohibit slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Labor-saving machines the North had invented to mass-produce uniforms and footwear.
What is the sewing machine?
This limited the Southern income to roughly 2/5 of the Northerners.
What is the beginning of the cotton kingdom crumbling?
A result of Lincoln's decision to only provide provisions to the Fort Sumter troops
What is a call for seventy-five thousand militiamen?
Controversies that would be created in the South due to secession.
What is a share of national debt?
Gaing 160 acres of land for cheap if you built a house and lived there for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
A class that newly emerged due to the North's great economy.
What is the millionaire class?
What did women do in support of the confederation due to the South's economy crumbling.
What is cut and try to sell their hair?
Lincoln's proclamation that abolished slavery in America and gave slaves the ability to fight in the war on the Union's side.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The group of states, Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, and Maryland played a major role in the first group to secede.
What are Crucial Border states?
Resulted in over 800,000 immigrant people from the years 1861-1865.
What are British, Irish, and German immigrants moving to the north and then Westward?
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell used a commission to assist the Union Army in training nurses, collecting medical supplies, and equipping hospitals.
What is the U.S. Sanitary Commission?
Caused many water battles to be lost and Southern morale to be dimmed.
What is the Northern Navy Blockade?
Lincoln released two Confederate diplomats who were found on a British ship after they were stopped by the Union when attempting to leave for Europe.
What is the Trent Affair?