Secession
The only slave states left in the Union.
What were the Border States? (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware
The colonization westward was promoted largely by this political party.
Who were Republicans?
Newly issued paper money thats value fluctuated depending on the nation's credit.
What were Greenbacks?
Due to a surplus of this Britain did not have to depend on the South for this resource.
What was cotton?
Lincoln told the South he would supply this to Fort Sumter.
What were provisions?
The South fired on this fort, causing the North to respond with force.
What is Fort Sumter?
Many people went West to avoid these people.
What were federal draft agents?
On both sides of the war, this group took departing men's jobs and often worked as clerks or in factories making shoes and clothing.
What were women?
A lack of these in the South made it hard for them to gain more military resources and clothing.
What were factories?
Lincoln firing the first shot on the South would have likely caused this.
What is the Border States to secede?
The South having better-trained military officials, was fighting defensively, and did not necessarily have to win the war to gain independence were among some of these.
What were the South's advantages?
This gave rewards to people who moved and settled out West, free land for those willing to work it.
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
The Morrill Tariff gave the federal government enough funds to become a major investor in the transcontinental railroad through this.
What was the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862?
Three-fourths of the nation's wealth and railroads were in this part of the country.
What was the North?
Lincoln could not publicly support this movement to prevent the Border States from seceding.
What was the abolitionist movement?
Northern armies were manned solely by these before 1863 when Congress passed a federal conscription law.
What were volunteers?
The discovery of this in Pennsylvania caused a rush of "Fifty-Niners" to move there.
What was petroleum?
This invention produced surpluses of grain that helped dethrone King Cotton and feed the army.
What was the mechanical reaper?
The North's control of this and setting up a blockade cut off Southern supplies and destroyed Southern morale.
What was the sea?
The suspension of this allowed anti-Unionists to be arrested and held without trial.
What was the writ of habeas corpus?
These Confederate warships built in Great Britain could have caused a lot of problems if they hadn't been bought by London for the Royal Navy.
What were the Laird rams?
The Morrill Tariff raised funds for what important advancement.
What was the transcontinental railroad? (Pacific Railroad Act)
This was the first step towards a unified banking network since 1836 and functioned for fifty years until replaced in 1913.
What was the National Banking System (National Banking Act)?
The Confederacy over-printed this towards the war's end in a last-ditch effort to increase revenue and caused massive inflation.
What was blue-backed paper money?
Lincoln unofficially offered command of the Northern armies to this man.
Who was Robert E. Lee?