Civil War 1
What side of the civil war called themselves the Union?
The Northern states that were still apart of the United States
The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions
Emancipation
Which was the first of the Southern States to secede?
South Carolina
Who won the civil war?
Union- the North
What is an abolitionist?
A person who wants slaves to be freed.
Who is President of the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
Which side of the Civil War were called the Confederacy?
The Southern states that seceded from the United States
When a nation fights itself it is called?
a civil war
What marked the beginning of the civil war?
the attack on Fort Sumter
In what year did the Confederate Army surrender?
1865
Who is Jefferson Davis?
the President of the Confederacy
Who was Harriet Tubman?
A conductor of the Underground Railroad who helped slaves escape to freedom.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Declared that slaves in the confederate states were free
Who won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
The Confederacy
Why was the Civil War so costly?
The US was fighting itself.
How did the North view the attack on Fort Sumter? The South?
North: treason
South: Self defense
What does secede mean?
to break away from, to remove oneselve
What was the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?
If the South didn't rejoin the Union, enslaved people in states that had seceded, or parts of states still in rebellion, as of January 1, 1863, would be declared free.
What event was the final straw that started the secession of the Southern States?
The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860
What were the three causes of the Civil War?
- Sectionalism
- Slavery
- States' Rights
What three pressures was Lincoln facing two years into the Civil War?
- Pressure from abolitionists to abolish slavery
- Risk of GB and France siding with Southern States
- Union losses led to low support for the war
Why did the Confederacy fire on Fort Sumter?
Fort Sumter was federal property, but located in South Carolina. The Confederacy was in the process of seizing US property throughout the South, and they wanted to claim Fort Sumter for the Confederacy.
How did the Emancipation Proclamation address the pressures Lincoln was facing?
Tied the issue of slavery to the Civil War (made abolitionist happy & GB and France not want to fight for the South), gave the Union more soldiers (former Southern slaves joined the Union army), gained support on the home front
Why did Lincoln not want to punish the South after the Civil War?
He thought it would create tensions that would prevent the nation from healing after the war.
Daily Double: How did the relationship between sectionalism, slavery, and states' rights cause the Civil War?
Southern states, which relied heavily on enslaved labor for their agricultural economies, argued for states' rights as a means to protect their institution of slavery. They believed that each state should have the authority to decide whether to allow or abolish slavery within its borders, free from interference by the federal government. They feared that any federal attempts to limit or abolish slavery would infringe upon their states' rights and economic interests.
Northern states and abolitionists argued that slavery was morally evil and a violation of human rights that should not be left to the individual states to decide. They believed that the federal government had a responsibility to regulate or abolish slavery nationwide, as it violated the principles of liberty and equality upon which the nation was founded.
The tension between these opposing views on states' rights and slavery reached a tipping point with the election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories. This triggered the secession of Southern states from the Union, as they feared that their states' rights to maintain slavery were under threat.