Secession
While the Union had a population of around 22 million, this rebellious territory had a population of around 9 million.
What is the Confederacy?
One major resource people were looking for.
What is gold?
The North had many more of these than the South allowing for faster trade and travel.
What are railroads?
The reason southerners didn't have to pay for labor.
What is Slavery?
The year in which Abraham Lincoln was elected
What is 1860?
Man who said, "Physically speaking, we cannot separate."
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
An act that promised free western land to people who were willing to work it.
What is the Homestead Act?
The North had a substantial amount more of this resource.
What is steal?
This was formed by the confederacy alongside succession.
What is the Confederate government?
Lincoln sent 75,000 militiamen to this fort to stop a "rebellion" against federal government.
What is Fort Sumter?
The main disagreement between the North and South
What is Slavery?
What is the Republican Party?
Authorized by Congress in 1863, designed to establish a kind of bank note currency.
What is the National Banking System?
This Nation helped manufacture Confederate ships.
What is England?
The man who ran against Lincoln in 1864
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The location in which the first shots were fired in the civil war
What is Fort Sumter?
Granted parcels of land to individual settlers and territory to railroad companies.
What is the Pacific Railroad Act?
She helped organize the U.S. Sanitary Commision
Who is Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell?
Items that were grown and produced in Confederate territory.
What are grain, gunpowder, and iron?
He suspended this privilege so that anti-Unionists could be arrested and held without trial.
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
The cartoon published by Oliver Evans Woods
What is The Pending Conflict?
A repellent from existing territories and a reason to move west.
What are Federal Draft Agents?
The things that Congress taxed more heavily for the war
What are tobacco and alcohol?
Sold at home and abroad, amounting to nearly 400 million dollars.
What are Confederate Bonds?
Congress passed a federal conscription law for the first time which was a cause of this.
What are the New York Draft Riots?