Vocabulary
Ally
one that is associated with another as a helper; a person or group that provides assistance and support in an ongoing effort, activity or struggle
The President of the Union
Abraham Lincoln
The election of 1860 led to _______ getting elected, even though he did not win the popular vote.
First major battle of the Civil War, where civilians brought picnics to watch.
The Battle of Bull Run
South's biggest strength?
Home Court Advantage- or knowing the land they were fighting on.
Abolition
to get rid of - in the case of the Civil War, to get rid of the institution of slavery
The President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
True or False, the South wanted to leave the Union to become their own country, and even had an election of their own president (instead of Lincoln).
True
Bloodiest single day in American history
Battle of Antietam
North's biggest weakness?
Not knowing the territory they were fighting in.
Secession
A formerly enslaved man who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, and helped to end slavery by working with Abraham Lincoln.
Frederick Douglass
The compromise that made Maine into a free state and declared that any state under the 36 30 line would be a slave state.
1820 Missouri Compromise
Number of people who died in the Civil War
Roughly 620,000
North's strengths?
Resources (materials), factories, and railroads
Emancipation
the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
Sideburns were named after him
Ambrose Burnside
A law requiring ALL US citizens to help force enslaved people, who were running away to freedom, back into slavery.
Fugitive Slave Law
3 Day battle that included Pickett's charge, which resulted in a devastating Confederate loss.
Battle of Gettysburg
South's biggest weakness?
Lack of access to people (soldiers) and materials (weapons, food, etc.)
Sectionalism
Sectionalism is loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole
Won the Civil War for the Union, and went on to become President (later)
Ulysses S. Grant
Fighting/ battles in a specific state that happened due to Sectionalism, and the goal of having more people sway the state one direction, or the other, politically.
Bleeding Kansas
The Battle of Gettysburg
Who else was involved in the Civil War, other than the "Union" and the "Confederacy"?
SO many different nationalities, including Native Americans.
As well as . . . Germans, Irish, Canadians, English, Scandinavians, Swiss, French, Italians, Mexicans, and Poles