Secession
First state that seceded
What is South Carolina?
The main reason Americans started migrating west
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
The monarchs of Northern agriculture
Who were King Wheat and King Corn
Affected the cotton trade
What is a blockade?
Abraham Lincoln was in charge of this side
What was the Union?
Name for states that supported slavery
What is Pro-slavery.
A federal law that sold settlers 160 acres of land for about $30 if they lived on it for five years and improved it by, for instance, building a house on it.
What was the Homestead Act?
Designed to establish a standard bank-note currency
What was the National Banking System
The monarch of Southern agriculture
Who was King Cotton?
Abraham Lincoln's nickname
Who was "Honest Abe"
Slave states there were loyal to the union
What is Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland?
Fulfilled a longstanding Republican promise to give free land to those willing to work it
What was the Homestead Act?
Paper currency issued by the Union Treasury during the Civil War
What were Greenbacks?
Much of the hunger was caused by a breakdown of this
What is transportation system?
Abraham Lincoln's opponent in the 1860 presidential election
Who was John C. Breckinridge
Amount of states seceded after the fall of Fort Sumter
What is 4?
An estimated number of people pushed westward during the war.
What is 300,000?
Passed by Congress superseding the low Tariff of 1857
What was the Morrill Tariff Act?
What is the thirteenth Amendment?
Abraham Lincoln suspended the document
What was the write of habeas corpus?
Order of the states seceding before the fall of Fort Sumter
What is
1. South Carolina
2. Mississippi
3. Florida
4. Alabama
5. Georgia
6. Louisiana
7. Texas
Helped fund the construction of the Union Pacific transcontinental railroad with the use of land grants and government bonds.
What is the Pacific Railroad Act?
Excise taxes substantially increased by Congress
What is tobacco and alcohol?
Name one of two resources more profitable than cotton that ended up "shutting down King Cotton"
What is Wheat or Corn?
Abraham Lincoln's start of presidency
When was March 4, 1861