Why did senators initially reject Missouri Application for statehood?
It would ruin the balance of Pro and anti- slavery members of the senate.
This event triggered the Secession Crisis that directly caused the war
Election of Abraham Lincoln
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?
freed only slaves in the Confederacy
Why did the Mexican American war increase tension between the North and the South?
It was seen by Northerners as a war to expand slavery
Why did Lincoln suspend Habeas Corpus?
He wished to prevent known Confederate sympathizers from leaving the Union or sabotaging the Union war effort.
why, despite economic disparity, larger population, more efficient transportation networks, and much greater industrial output was the South able to prolong the Civil War for four years?
Superior Military strategy
What was the motivating force behind President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Second Inaugural Address, and the decision to suspend the right of habeas corpus?
To preserve the Union
What were the terms of the Kansas Nebraska act?
California admitted as a free state
Popular sovereignty applied to the rest of the Mexican Cession -
Harsher fugitive slave law
What battle was the bloodiest day in America’s history? (at that time)
Battle of Antietam
What was Lincolns plan for readmittance of Confederate states back to the Union?
The 10% plan where 10 percent of voters had to take an oath of allegiance to the United States, accept Emancipation, and write a new state constitution