Causes of Civil War
The Election of this man
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
Congress is acting like a tyrant, telling us what we can and cannot do!
What is a Southern State Leader.
It emphasized regional divisions, was opposed by the South and helped lead to the Civil War.
What is the Nullification Crisis
Expanded the focus of the Civil War to include freeing people from enslavement and encouraged thousands of free African American men to enlist in the Union Army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
announce or declare in an open or bold way
What is Proclaim
Ideas or policies supported by a political party in the election.
What is a platform.
Supreme Court case that ruled that slaves were not citizens, were considered property under the law, and it was unconstitutional to outlaw slavery in a territory..
What is the Dred Scott case.
States have the right to nullify any law they disagree with.
What is the Southern State leader.
The GA Platform stated that Georgia would accept this under the condition that the Fugitive Slave Act was followed.
What is the Compromise of 1850
This campaign marked the beginning of the end of the Civil War and the Union Army looted the city and burned it down before continuing to the sea.
What is the Atlanta Campaign.
A system of federal government in which states share power with a national government.
What is a federal system.
To set free from slavery or other bondage.
What is to emancipate.
The buying and selling of people as property.
What is slavery.
The country cannot be broken apart. It is one nation and must remain as one.
What is the Northern State leader.
This happened when Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
What is seven states incluing GA secede from the Union before Lincoln takes office.
The first and largest battle of the Civil War delaying the Union invasion of Georgia.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga.
placed on goods brought into one country from another
What is a tariff.
The formal withdrawal from an alliance or group, especially a political one.
What is secession.
A state in the Union voluntarily removing itself from the Union.
What is secession.
Laws made by the federal government ovveride laws made by the states.
What is a Northern state leader.
Extremely crowded Confederate military camp where prisoners has very little food, shelter, and water, and a high death rate.
What is Andersonville.
Freed enslaved people in states fighting against the Union and the Union Army would enforce the order and maintain their freedom.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
Rights and powers held by individual U.S. states rather than by the federal government.
What are state's rights
Someone who wants to end slavery
Who is an abolitionist.
What was the main cause of the Civil War?
What is State's Rights.
It was our choice to join the Union and it will be our choice to leave it!
What is the Southern State leader.
Goals included: Destroy anything that could be used by Southern civilians or the Confederate Army, crush the spirit and willingness to fight of the Confederacy, force the South to surrender.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea.
Northern states had higher populations, giving them more electoral votes allowed for the election of this person for President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
Loyalty to one's own region or localized interests, instead of the country as a whole.
What is sectionalism.
Idea that government authority comes from people who have agreed to be governed.
What is Popular Sovereignty