Compromises, Sectionalism, and Causes for the War
This political party emerged in the 1850s largely in opposition to the expansion of slavery.
The Republican Party
This Union victory in Pennsylvania, July 1863, is considered the turning point of the Civil War that destroyed any chance of Confederate victory.
What cash crop dominated southern agriculture
Cotton
First Republican president, elected on an anti-slavery platform
Abraham Lincoln
Most soldiers died from these rather than from battle wounds.
Diseases
This compromise led to the establishment of the latitude line 36-30 as how to define whether new states/territories would be slave or free states
Missouri Compromise
The Confederate attack on this fort officially began the Civil War in April 1861.
Fort Sumter
This document was how Lincoln freed enslaved people in rebelling states in 1863.
Emancipation Proclamation
This region of the US relied heavily on manufacturing and wage labor
North
This radical abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
John Brown
This medical practice was commonly performed because doctors lacked modern treatments for severe injuries.
This 1854 law allowed settlers in territories to decide the slavery issue by popular sovereignty.
This is where Lee surrendered to Grant ending the Civil War
Appomattox Courthouse
This address from Lincoln was given at the dedication of a national cemetery after a major battle in July 1863 that would be a turning point in the war.
Gettysburg Address
This region of the country had a larger network of railroads
North
This Confederate general surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
Robert E. Lee
Many soldiers complained about this staple food item often included in military rations.
Hardtack
This compromise admitted California as a free state and included a stricter Fugitive Slave Act.
Compromise of 1850
This battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history and ruined any chance that the Confederacy would receive aid from Europe.
Antietam
In Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction this percentage of the population would have to swear an oath of loyalty to the union.
10%
According to declarations of secession from Southern states, the primary reason for leaving the Union was preserving this institution.
Slavery
This abolitionist wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Civil War is often called the first "modern war" because industrial advances produced new technologies such as ironclads, railroads, and this communication device.
Telegraph
This Supreme Court decision said Black Americans were not and could not become citizens of the United States and therefore had no right to sue in court.
Dred Scott Decision/ Dred Scott v. Sandford
This was a military campaign that devastated the state of Georgia using Total War tactics.
Sherman's March to the Sea/Atlanta Campaign
This actor killed Lincoln at Ford's Theatre when he was going to see Our American Cousin
John Wilkes Booth
This term described enslaved people who escaped to Union lines during the Civil War before emancipation.
Contraband
Vice President of the Confederacy, wrote the Cornerstone Speech outlining that white supremacy was the basis for the Confederate Constitution
Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Women who followed armies to cook, wash clothes, and provide services were known by this term.
Camp Followers
This rebellion led by an enslaved man led to widespread fear in the south about the possibility of future slave rebellions.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
This battle ended in a stalemate but is prime example of the new ironclad ships from this time period making wooden naval ships obsolete
Who was the Democratic opposition candidate in the election 1864 that lost to Lincoln?
George McClellan
This country was the biggest buyer of Southern cotton, and during the war they hoped to receive support from this country in the war.
Britain (I'll take any variation)
Who was the president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
This Confederate Prisoner of War Camp for Union soldiers was notorious for its poor conditions and high mortality rate.
Andersonville