Causes
What was the southern economy based on?
Cotton and Agriculture
What battle split the Confederate States of America at the Mississippi River?
The Battle of Vicksburg
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act declare?
Territories could use popular sovereignty to decide if they would enter the Union as a slave state
Who did General Lee surrender to at Appomattox Court House?
General Ulysses S. Grant
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed slaves in ONLY the Confederacy
What is a Carpetbagger?
Someone who moved from the North to the south to profit from the South's reconstruction.
What political party did the North and South follow?
North- Republicans and South- Democrats
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What advantages did the Union have over the Confederacy in the Civil War?
They had a better economy, more people, more railroad
Who was Hiram Rhodes Revels?
The first African American to be elected for the US Senate.
1. This event triggered the Secession of South Carolina, and other southern states to follow?
2. What actually caused the Civil War to officially begin?
1. Election of Lincoln
2. The attack on Fort Sumter
Who led a march from Atlanta to Savannah that destroyed buildings, farmland, and homes?
General William T. Sherman
What was the name for the Union strategy to win the war?
Anaconda plan
What was president Lincoln's main goal in his 1st Inaugural Address vs his 2nd Inaugural Address?
1st- he wanted to keep the union together and offered to let the south keep slaves in the states that already had them. * No expansion
2nd- He wanted to unite both sides again
What are the "4 S's" that lead to the civil war and what do they each mean?
1. Slavery- South wanted slaves 2. States Rights- South wanted to interpret the constitution 3. Sectionalism- 3 sections with different ideas and values 4. Secession- South Carolina leaves and others follow
Who was Lincoln's vice president during the 1864 elections? What political party did he belong to and why did he get impeached?
Andrew Johnson, Democrat, and because he was trying to .ale it easier for the south to join the union, along with firing Lincoln's cabinet members.
What battle was the bloodiest day in America’s history? (at that time)
Battle of Antietam
These were the laws that were designed to give the southern states control over blacks' behavior, and particularly, their labor. They placed harsh economic and social restrictions on the blacks.
Black codes
What was sharecropping? Who benefited and who didn't not? Who was most likely to participate in sharecropping?
A way for very poor farmers to earn a living from land owned by someone else.
Landowner made the most $ and sharecropper would not make profit (fell further into debt)
It was mostly former slaves working the fields