Important Terms
The term for the official proclamation for freeing of the slaves.
What is Emancipation?
The North's Economy was based on this.
What is Industrialization and manufacturing?
The South's Economy was based on this.
What is cotton and the slave trade?
President of the Union
Abraham Lincoln
What Lincoln originally made the war about before the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Preserving the union?
The population of free people in the North compared to the South.
What is 5 million to 22 million people?
The reason the South left the union.
What is fear of loosing their slaves/ slavery becoming illegal?
General of the South
General Lee
The term for leaving the north/the union.
What is succession?
The North's main problem in the war.
What is lack of competent Generals and low morale?
What was the South's main problem in the war?
What is low population and resources toward the end of the war?
Eventual General in the North towards the end of the war
General Grant
The event in Kansas where people flooded into Kansas, voting pro or against slavery, and fighting each other before the civil war.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The percentage or number of black soldiers in the Northern Army after the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is 200,000 troops or 10%?
Where General Lee finally surrendered.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
Assassin who killed Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln meant this when he said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand".
What is how can we prosper as a country if we are fighting each other?
The Norths three part attack plan on the South.
Blockade/surround the South, Take Richmond (South Capital), and take the Mississippi River.
The South's two part plan to take the North (especially towards the end of the war).
What is take Washington D.C. (North Capital) and hope for someone else to win the re-election and beat Lincoln in the North.
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis