North Vs. South
The south seceded from the United States and called themselves
Confederate States of America
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The Lincoln -________ debates during the election of 1858 met several times in cities and towns throughout Illinois to debate what to do about slavery.
Douglas
The confederate soldiers attacked here, beginning the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
Power or Authority of the people
Popular Sovereignty
An agency whose goal was to help the newly "freed men" by providing education, food, housing, and medical aid for former slaves
Freedman's Bureau
What president was elected that caused the south to secede?
Abraham Lincoln
In Lincoln's First Inaugural address what did he want to do about slavery?
Stop the spread
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General Thomas "________" Jackson received this nickname during the First Battle of Bull Run for refusing to move back.
Stonewall
A system by where farmers receive supplies and land in exchange for providing a share of crop to the landowner
Sharecropping
Who shot Lincoln while he was attending a play with his wife at Ford's Theatre?
John Wilkes Booth
What was the root cause of the Civil War between the North and South?
Slavery
What did Lincoln think about the south seceding?
He believed it was unconstitutional
This was the single deadliest one-day battle in all of U.S. History.
Battle of Antietam
Refusing to follow laws or commands of a government when they seem unjust.
Civil Disobedience
Discriminatory laws that denied the Civil Rights of blacks in the South and prevented the Freedman's Bureau from doing it's work.
Black Codes
California is admitted as a free state.
Popular Soveriegnty would decide positions on slavery in new territories and new states.
The Fugitive Slave Act is passed
What compromise is being described?
The Compromise of 1850
What famous document, freeing the slaves, did Lincoln issue after the Union victory at Antietam?
Emancipation Proclamation
General William Sherman marched with Union forces to Atlanta. Georgia and destroyed the city. He continued on capturing Savanna, Georgia moving north into the Carolinas. They destroyed plantations and burned fields destroying the south's economy. What was this called?
Sherman's March to the Sea
Speech that a President gives once they are sworn into office.
Inaugural Address
He became President after Lincoln was assassinated. He was the first President to be Impeached
Andrew Johnson
Invoked the doctrine of popular sovereignty and allowed the people in these states to determine the slavery issue which led to Bleeding Kansas.
Kansas - Nebraska Act
What famous speech did Lincoln give with the following quote? "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent..."
Gettysburg Address
This battle was a victory for the Union and a major turning point in the Civil War.
Battle of Gettysburg
To set free
Emancipation
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The southern states instituted ______ _____ and _____ ______ , making it nearly impossible for African Americans to vote.
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