Causes of the Civil War
This 1820 agreement kept a balance between free and slave states and created the 36°30’ line.
The Missouri Compromise
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here in 1861.
Fort Sumter
He was President of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
The southern states formed this new country after secession.
The Confederacy
This side had more factories, railroads, and a strong navy.
The North (Union)
This was the final event of the Civil War, when Lee surrendered to Grant.
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
This law required all citizens to help return escaped enslaved people.
Fugitive Slave Act
This was the first major battle of the Civil War and showed that the war would not be short.
The Battle of Bull Run
He commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
Robert E Lee
Lincoln issued this document in 1863, changing the focus of the war to ending slavery.
The Emancipation Proclamation
This side fought a defensive war and had strong military leaders like Lee and Jackson.
The Confederacy (South)
This many American casualties occurred during the Civil War.
More than 620,000
This idea allowed people in new territories to vote on whether to allow slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
This 1862 battle between the Monitor and Merrimack changed naval warfare forever.
The Battle of the Ironclads
He was the Union general who accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House.
Ulysses S Grant
This type of warfare involves destroying anything that helps the enemy fight.
Total War
The North’s large population helped because they had more of these two groups: __ and __.
Workers and Soldiers
The Union navy performed this action to cut off Southern ports and supplies.
Blockade
This 1857 Supreme Court decision declared that enslaved people were property, not citizens.
Dred Scott Decision
The bloodiest single day in U.S. history, this battle allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle of Antietam
This abolitionist led the raid at Harpers Ferry in hopes of starting a slave revolt.
John Brown
The Union strategy to blockade the South and control the Mississippi River was known as this.
Anaconda Plan
The South struggled because it had fewer of this important transportation system.
Railroads
This Union strategy through Georgia destroyed supplies and civilian property.
Sherman's March to the Sea
Violent clashes in the mid-1850s resulted from the Kansas-Nebraska Act and this concept.
Bleeding Kansas
This turning point battle in 1863 stopped Lee’s invasion of the North.
Battle of Gettysburg
She helped enslaved people escape using the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
This belief held that states could ignore federal laws they disagreed with.
State's Rights
The South had this major agricultural weakness: they relied mostly on these instead of food crops.
Cash Crops (Cotton)
This term describes loyalty to one’s region rather than the entire country.
Sectionalism
Lincoln’s victory in this presidential election caused the first Southern states to secede.
1860
This 1863 Union victory gave the North control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy.
Battle of Vicksburg
This Union general led the destructive “March to the Sea,” using total war.
William Tecumseh Sherman
This speech by Lincoln honored fallen soldiers and redefined the war as a struggle for equality and unity.
Gettysburg Address
The South's big advantage with men such as Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
Military Leadership
This person's failed effort to seize a federal arsenal made Southerners fear Northern abolitionists.
John Brown