Secession
Abraham Lincoln's view on secession
What is its impracticality because "physically speaking, we cannot separate."
An economic advantage of the North
What is industrialization
Piece of legislation that was advantageous to the North via land
What is the Homestead Act (promoted agricultural production + created a large base of potential soldiers)
Slave states left in the Union
What is Border States
Fort Abraham Lincoln sent an expedition for "provisions"
What is Fort Sumter
Europe's opinion on secession
What is delighted
A transportational advantage of the North
What is majority of the railroads in the country
Crucial Border State for the North
What is Kentucky
Reason some Native Americans supplied troops to the Confederate Army
What is the Confederacy agreeing to take over federal payments to the tribes and inviting Native American delegates
Lincoln's Paramount Purpose
What is saving the Union at all costs
Benefited from the fight at Fort Sumter
What is the North
An agricultural advantage of the North
What is booming corn and wheat crops which they sold ot the British
How the South boosted the Northern economy
What is having a cotton famine, which allowed the North to sell more of their agricultural resources
New weapon that 200 lb hurled missiles benefited
What is the South
Role of Lincoln's troops in Western Virginia and Missouri
What is fighting beside Unionists in a local civil war
Would have helped the Confederacy win the war
What is fighting off Unuion invadors at the borders
A social advantage of the North
What is a greater amount of people (especially thanks to European immigration)
How the North gained the British's favor in the war
What is sending cotton to the British and having Northern corn and grain being the primary sources og British food during their famine
One of the Confederacy's potential assets
What is foreign intervention
How Lincoln's emancipation policy affected the Confederacy
What is detering Britain from helping the slaveowning South
Made General E. Lee decline Lincoln's offer of command
Virginia's succession from the Union
A foreign advantage of the North
What is European support (due to Uncle Tom's Cabin and agricultural reasons)
An act that helped the North with transportation
What is the Pacific Railroad Act
South's failed foreign strategy
What is attempting to use King Cotton to pressure European powers (failed due to Europe's stockpiles and alternative sources of cotton)
Transformative policy that moralized the Civil War's purpose
What is the Emancipation Proclamation