Causes
What Presidential election was a cause of the South seceding from the United States?
The Election of 1860
True or False: The United States did not welcome the Southern States that seceded back into our union.
FALSE
President of the United States in 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Set up a line of longitude at the 36/30 line. Any thing North was free and anything south was slave.
Missouri Compromise
First battle of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
What was the North in the process of abolishing that the South still wanted to keep legal?
Slavery
President Lincoln signed the _________ __________ during the Civil War to abolish slavery.
Emancipation Proclamation
President on the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
This act gave people the right to use "popular sovereignty" to determine whether or not slavery would be allowed in their state. It led to bloodshed and many lives lost.
Kansas/Nebraska Act aka "Bleeding Kansas"
Where "Stonewall" Jackson received his nickname
First Battle of Bull Run
What term or idea explains the "split" of the country during the Antebellum Era?
Sectionalism
Most of Georgia's economy was destroyed, in part, by General Sherman using a strategy of "Total War". What do we call this moment in history?
Sherman's March to Sea
Wrote the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This compromise said California would be a free state but Washington D.C. would technically be a slave state (Just can't buy or sell slaves within the city, but you could own as many as you liked)
Compromise of 1850
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War. President Lincoln gave an important address here.
Gettysburg
Politically, the North wanted a stronger federal government while the South wanted more ______ ______.
States Rights
The President of the United States was shot by this man 5 days after the Civil War ended.
John Wilkes Booth
This woman was a major conductor on the Underground Railroad and this man learned how to read and write in order to gain his freedom.
Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglas
This law said that any escaped slave in the North could be returned legally to the south for profit.
Fugitive Slave Law
After Union victory, Great Britain backed out of supporting the South during the Civil War
Antietam
These taxes on imported and exported goods caused quite the split between the North and South
Tariffs
Congress passed the 13th Amendment which outlawed what practice in America?
Slavery
This man was the general who surrendered to the North at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia, thus ending the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee
This slave took his case all the way to the Supreme Court in hopes of keeping his freedom. Unfortunately, this only "fanned the flames" of slavery.
Dred Scott Decision
Ulysses S. Grant was able to use a blockade to split the Mississippi River and cut the Confederate Army in two.
Battle of Vicksburg