CAUSES
3/5 Compromise
Loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole
Sectionalism
Winner of the 1860 election and President of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
First major land battle of the Civil War. The Union is forced to retreat.
First Battle of Bull Run
These allowed the North to transfer goods, supplies, and troops with more ease than the South.
Railroads
These laws required northerners to return escaped slaves to slaveowners. Inflamed anti-slavery feelings in the North.
Fugitive Slave Laws
A form of patriotism based upon the identification of a group of individuals with a nation
Nationalism
President of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
This battle led to a union victory that acted as the last time the South would ever invade the North.
Battle of Gettysburg
This side has lower population, but had advantages fighting on their own land. They had more military schools for training and knew how to live off their land.
Confederate States of America
This supreme court decision decided that African-Americans were property and could not be taken away.
Dred Scott v Sandord/Drad Scott Decision
A vote where the people decide on an issue.
Popular Sovereignty
This union commander's goal was to defeat General Lee. Led the Union to many key victories.
Ulysses S. Grant
First major battle fought in the North. Known as the single bloodiest day in American military history with23,000+ casualties.
Battle of Antietam
This city acted as the South's major manufacturing center. The loss of this city at the hands of Sherman played a major part in the CSA's loss.
Atlanta
This event led directly to South Carolina declaring secession in December of 1860.
Election of 1860/Election of Abraham Lincoln
To remove or break away as the Southern states did from the Union.
Secede
Confederate general who initially opposed secession. Led his forces in a series of remarkable victories that included Second Manassas (Second Bull Run), Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville.
Robert E. Lee
Battle that is considered the first shot of the Civil War. No deaths occur but the North does surrender, resulting in Lincoln calling for 75,000 volunteers.
Battle of Fort Sumter
This major change/development that happened in the North allowed industries to flourish and allowed them to outproduce the south and flourish.
Industrialization
This book shared the horrors of slavery in the south. It led to the North no longer being able to ignore slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A person who is willing to die for their beliefs.
Martyr
This general led the confederacy to many victories, including the First Battle of Bull Run, where he earned his popular nickname.
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Arguably the biggest turning point for the Union, where the Union laid seige to the city and gained control of the Mississippi River. This win cut off Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas from the rest of the CSA.
Battle of Vicksburg.
Increased industrialization allowed for more jobs, which attacted this classification of people, that would help bolster the population in the north and increase the miltary and workforce.
Immigrants
How did the Kansas-Nebraska act affect the Missouri Compromise? What was the outcome?
Repeals the Missouri Compromise, leads to Bleeding Kansas (mini civil war fighting over Kansas)
Provide two economic factors that caused Sectionalism?
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William T. Sherman was a union commander that became known for what? He used elements of what type of warfare?
March to the Sea/Sherman's March, Total War
After the Battle of Antietam, Abraham Linlcoln made his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, that would free slaves in states that were in active rebellion. What are two benefits that the Union gained from this proclamation.
Emancipated freemen served in the military, chnaged from fighting to preserve to union to fighting for freedom and equality, and prevented other nations such as Great Britian and France from siding with the CSA.
During the Civil War, the South had to resort to printing their own money. Name two key issues or problems with this.
Inflation, each state printed own currency, the money had no true value.