Key Terms
When Lincoln was elected, many Southern states voted to formally leave the USA, also called this.
What is seceding?
While the North had mostly abolished slavery, they did not allow this group to enlist in the army until 1863.
Who are African Americans/Black Americans?
This advantage for the North helped them move troops and supplies around faster and more easily than the South.
What are railroad networks?
This was an advantage of the South that gave them an edge on the battlefield.
What are strong leaders?
This is about how many African Americans fought in the Civil War.
What is 200,000?
The idea that each state is independent and can control their own affairs is know as this.
"The Union is perpetual [forever]," said this newly elected president in 1860, thus beginning the Civil War in America.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
This advantage for the North allowed them to produce more weapons and equipment to keep the war going long term and outlast the South.
What are factories / manufacturing capacity?
This was an advantage of the South that helped them be more prepared for battles in how to best use the land to their benefit.
What is "home field" advantage?
Border States were important in this way, as they had important rivers and roads that helped move troops and supplies more easily.
What is strategically / strategic importance?
What are Border States?
When President Lincoln was elected in 1860, the South seceded because they thought this practice would end, ruining their way of life and economy.
What is slavery?
This advantage of the North allowed them to blockade ports and harbors in the South, cutting off supply lines from the oceans.
What is a strong navy / war ships?
This Southern advantage is hard to measure, as it is an internal, human characteristic rather than a fact, but can make a battle or fight very different.
What is better motivation / morale / fighting spirit?
The reason the North created a cartoon about a Southern general that had diarrhea during battle was likely this.
What is to increase morale / motivation OR embarrass the south?
By the war's end 900k Rebels and 2.1 million Yankees had formally signed up to fight, also called this.
What is enlist?
The South justified secession by saying the National government had broken the Constitution [law] by not enforcing this act, upsetting slaveholders.
This was the ultimate goal of the Union when fighting the Civil War.
What is keep the union together?
This was the plan for the South on how to beat the North, despite being outmatched with population, supplies, and many other things.
What is "defend against the North until they lose the will to fight?" or "Get foreign help?"
This is what someone who is against slavery. (Older term)
What is an abolitionist?
The Southern states were known by many names - The South, The Rebels, and also this formal title for the country they hoped to create. (NOT a formal yellow key term!)
What is the Confederacy?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This was the North's plan for how to win the Civil War.
What is invade and "squeeze" the South of supplies?
This was the goal of the South when fighting the Civil War.
What is creating an independent country (with slavery)?
This is the year that the Civil War began.
What is 1861?