Vocabulary
This term was used to refer to states that did not permit slavery within their territory
What are Free States?
Used as the main workforce in factories and mills, this group of people came from other countries to cities in the North.
What are immigrants?
Created in 1820, this document established Maine as a free state, and Missouri as a slave state. It also created a line at Missouri's southern border, dividing all future states north of it as free, and all states south of it as able to vote on whether to be slave or free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
After the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, this state was the first to secede from the United States.
What is South Carolina?
Fought after a Union military base refused to evacuate though its home states had seceded, this battle was the first of the Civil War and had no casualties.
What is Fort Sumter?
This refers to a large farm worked by enslaved people, generating a small amount of revenue for its white owners.
What is a plantation?
Used to transport goods and people across large distances, the North was known to have more miles of these than the South.
What are railroads?
This act lead many free or slave state activists to move to Kansas and Nebraska in order to effect the vote on whether each state would be slave or free.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
In this military tactic, an armed force surrounds an area and keeps people and goods from entering or exiting.
What is a blockade?
Fought in Maryland, this battle had more casualties from a single day than any other battle or natural disaster in United States History up to that point.
What is Antietam?
This refers to an arrested person's right to a trial
What is Habeas Corpus?
Used to transport goods and raw materials, these natural features allowed the South to ship nationally and internationally, and furthered their attitude against infrastructure.
What are rivers and canals?
Though admitting California as a free state, this legislation also set out the fugitive slave laws, aiding the capture and imprisonment of African Americans who may or may not be formerly enslaved.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This document, signed by Abraham Lincoln, freed enslaved people within the Confederacy, abolishing the fugitive slave act, and changing the main issue of the Civil War from sovereignty to slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Considered one of the turning points of the war, this battle represented the northernmost incursion of Confederate forces, and resulted in more than 50,000 casualties across its three days of fighting.
What is Gettysburg?
This means "to have left a group, union, or organization"
What is secession?
Meant to encourage Americans to buy from American companies by making foreign goods more expensive, these were supported by the North, and opposed by the South.
What are tariffs?
A state received this nick-name after copious violence and the massacre of five people in an attempt to sway the vote of whether it would be slave or free.
Whats is "Bleeding Kansas"?
Named for its snake like shape, this policy set out to cut off Confederate supplies and trade.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Also considered a turning point of the war, this successful blockage solidified Union control of the Mississippi.
What is Vicksburg?
This means a country would receive help from another nation in the form of trade or military support
What is foreign patronage?
This lead various states to create and push for laws that benefitted their specific region.
What is sectionalism?
This Supreme Court Decision allowed that an enslaved person was not free even if they were moved into a free state, and that free states could not deny the spread of slavery.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
Though permitting slavery, these states chose or were forced to remain in the Union for strategic purposes.
What are border states, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri?
Beginning in Atlanta and ending in Savana, this policy of destruction burned all military and private property along its route.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?