causes
Efforts in congress to reach a compromise in 1850 relied on which principle?
Popular sovereignty
who was elected president in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Which battle was a major battle of the Civil War and resulted in a Confederate victory
First battle of bull run
Main economic resource for the South?
cotton/ agriculture
The confederacy gained the Chesapeake bay and what other territory?
Indian territory ( 5 civilized tribes)
what was led William Garrison and called for the immediate end of slavery?
Abolitionist movement
With the creation of the confederacy states, who was chosen as president to lead the new provisional government?
Jefferson Davis
The 2 sides engaged, and at the end, McClellan's army returned north having failed to take Richmond
Seven days battles
First state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
The continuance of slavery was a central issue in the war, and by 1861, how many states did the confederacy consist of?
11 states
a mini civil war between pro- and anti-slavery forces
Bleeding kansas
Abolitionist who advocated the use of armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery
John Brown
Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North.
Battle of gettysburg
which state was literally split on the issue of secession?
Virginia
who hated the new goal of emancipation and found the idea of freed slaves repugnant
Democratic party
other possible answers: Northerners, Irish,and working-class
A senator from Ky attemped to diffuse the explosive situation by offering 6 constitutional amendments, what was it called?
Crittenden compromise
He led the confederates during eh first battle of bull run
"Stonewall" Jackson
initially centered in Tennessee, where union forces commanded by grant pushed confederate troops back and gained control of Mississippi
Battle of shiloh
which 4 states deprived the confederacy of key resources and soldiers?
goal was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. Sherman's soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they stole food and livestock
sherman's march to sea