Sectionalism
This event jumpstarted the secession movement, starting with South Carolina.
Election of 1860.
This conflict kicked off the violent phase of the Civil War in South Carolina, when the Confederacy fired the first shots.
Fort Sumter.
This was the party of Northern Democrats that wanted to make peace with the Confederacy and supported slavery.
Copperheads.
This was the first major battle of the Civil War and proved it would be a long war. Confederate victory.
Bull Run.
This side had the advantage in railroad mileage and factories during the Civil War.
The North.
This mini-civil war involved proslavery and antislavery forces fighting it out in Kansas.
Bleeding Kansas.
To protect slavery.
This was the Northern political group that wanted equality of white and black people and wanted to defeat the Confederacy.
Radical Republicans.
This was the site of the surrender of General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army.
Appomattox.
This describes the Anaconda Plan, the original Union strategy for ending the Southern rebellion.
1. Blockade Southern ports
2. Cut off the Mississippi
3. Take Richmond.
This is the name for the idea that states should be allowed to decide for themselves whether they should be free or slave states.
Popular sovereignty.
This defines the Border States. Also, this is one of them.
States that had slavery but did not secede.
Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, Missouri.
Lincoln suspended this right during the Civil War to arrest those interfering with the war effort.
Habeas corpus.
This battle, in Virginia, was the single bloodiest day in American history, with 23,000 casualties.
Antietam.
The Confederacy ran into this problem regarding their money supply and economy.
Hyperinflation.
The Union was originally fighting for this specific cause at the start of the war.
These are two of the three laws the Union passed while the Confederate states were seceded.
Pacific Railroad Act, Homestead Act, income tax.
In the North, people did this in order to avoid being drafted.
Paying a substitute.
This Tennessee battle was a bloodbath but a Union victory and led to Tennessee being reconquered by the Union.
Shiloh.
The Confederacy almost had the advantage of support from these outside forces in Europe.
France and Britain.
This extremely controversial Supreme Court Decision involved a slave suing for his freedom after being brought to a free state and ended with the Court saying black people cannot be citizens and do not have rights.
Dred Scott. v. Sandford.
These were all 11 states that seceded from the Union and lost the Civil War.
Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida.
This was at stake in the Election of 1864.
If the Democrats won, they would make peace with the Confederacy.
These two battles were major turning points of the war on July 4, 1863.
Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
The Confederacy had this main strategic advantage that made fighting the war easier for them.
They only had to defend their territory; did not have to invade the North.