the Confederate South
Abraham Lincoln
A Nation Divided
Civil War Battles
Vocabulary
100
The main method of transportation for the South was by...
River
100
General Sherman’s march through Georgia was an example of this type of warfare
Total War
100
Abraham Lincoln ran for president under this newly created political party.
Republicans
100
Hopes on both sides for a quick victory ended with the
Battle of Bull Run
100
Psychological warfare on the enemy’s will to fight and its ability to support an army.
Total War
200
Missouri’s application for statehood in 1819 raised the issue of whether slavery...
should be allowed in the Louisiana Territory.
200
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared...
slaves in Confederate states to be free.
200
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that slavery...
Could be allowed in the territories.
200
With the fall of Vicksburg, Union forces...
gained control of the Mississippi River.
200
The act of freeing people from slavery.
Emancipation
300
The South’s main economic strength came from its
Cotton Exportation
300
The terms of surrender General Grant offered to General Lee were designed to...
end the war without causing further suffering or hatred.
300
The election of 1860 showed how...
deeply divided the nation was over slavery.
300
The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the war because...
General Lee lost so many troops that he would never again invade the North.
300
A system that randomly selects and requires citizens to join their country’s armed forces.
Draft
400
How did the Missouri Compromise affected slavery in the United States?
quieted the slavery debate for a while.
400
The name of Lincoln and General Grants war strategy during the Civil War.
Anaconda Plan
400
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act affect the slavery debate in the United States?
led to bloodshed over slavery in Kansas.
400
Which resource became important in warfare, and transportation, for the first time during the Civil War?
miles of railroad track
400
This legislation proposed that Missouri could only join the Union as a free state.
Tallmadge Amendment
500
What event turned the secession crisis into a civil war?
South Carolina’s shelling of Fort Sumter
500
This man was Lincolns counterpart in the Civil War, the president of the Confederate States.
Jefferson Davis
500
Which part of the Compromise of 1850 created the most controversy during the 1850s?
the passage of a strong fugitive slave law to return runaway slaves to their owners
500
The Massachusetts 54th Regiment led the charge into this Confederate Fort...
Fort Wagner
500
The right to a trail before being jailed. In Latin, meaning, "let the body be seen"
Habeas Corpus
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