Why were southerners opposed to the abolition of slavery?
It would ruin their economy
What was the southern economy based on?
Cotton and Agriculture
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act declare?
Territories could use popular sovereignty to decide if they would enter the Union as a slave state
which slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?
None (freed only slaves in the Confederacy)
What turned the Civil war from preserving the Union to freeing the Slaves?
Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
What is Impeachment?
To be charged with a crime
This event triggered the Secession Crisis that directly caused the war
Election of Lincoln
Who were white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction
Scalawags
What ended Reconstruction?
Election of Rutherford B. Hayes
What was the twelve-year period following the U.S. Civil War in which the South's social, economic, and political systems had to be rebuilt?
Reconstruction