Road to the War
The democrats who shunned the Kansas-Nebraska Act and pledged to prevent the spread of slavery
What is the republican party?
One main advantage that the Union had access to was their massive amounts of railroad tracks. The North was able to transport goods quickly and over far distances while the South was lacking in resources in many unconnected areas. The Union had ____ miles of tracks, and the Confederacy had ____ miles of tracks.
What are 21,000 miles and 10,000 miles?
During the war, Abraham Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation. However, slavery was not formally abolished until this constitutional amendment.
What is the 13th amendment?
The _____ Plan was the Union strategy to surround the South and strangle it.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
What is In God We Trust?
A series of debates largely concerning the issue of slavery expansion into the new territories. Promoted popular sovereignty and raises awareness about the power of abolition.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
These two women were major leaders in medical attention during the war.
Who are Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton?
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by this person. Even after the Union had won the war, people from the former Confederacy were strong believers in their cause and this continued to cause controversy for a while before it settled down.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
The _____ River split the confederate states into two parts. The Union used this waterway to divide and conquer to eventually win the war.
What is the Mississippi River?
Even though this people group was unjustly treated for a long time before the Civil War, they still made up about 10% of the Union Army.
Who are the African Americans?
The 36°30′ line was especially important in this act in the 1800s. During this time, the country was divided between states that were proslavery and antislavery. The country used the 36°30′ to decide which way the new states would fall.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Muskets were replaced with this during the civil war. This gun is significantly stronger and more accurate and helped make this war the bloodiest war the US has ever seen.
What are rifles?
After the civil war, the US went into the ____ era. People determined the legal status of African Americans and rebuilt the southern states.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
Although the North and the South were feuding and fighting big battles, there were still some people on both sides of the war who just wanted to make peace. These northern democrats weren't interested in fighting and wanted to make an immediate peace agreement with the Confederacy.
What are Copperheads?
Although the Civil War was the bloodiest war the US has seen in its entire history. About 3 people died from this cause for every person who died in battle.
What are unsanitary conditions and/or disease?
This president-elect for the election of 1860 was not written in on the ballots for 10 states, so when he was elected many people fo the South felt like their voice in the government of the country was taken away.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
At this battle, the Confederate victory gave the South a surge of confidence and shocked many in the North, who realized the war would not be won as easily as they had hoped.
What is the battle of Bull Run?
Abraham Lincoln was a big believer in equality for the black race. However, after he died his presidential predecessor, Andrew Johnson, had different ideas. Abraham Lincoln wanted to be lenient to the South and make it easy for southern states to rejoin the Union, but Johnson was a Confederate supporter. It took a long time before these three amendments to the constitution were added and made a difference in people's lives.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
This battle may have been the closest the Confederate states came to winning the civil war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
President Andrew Johnson was a confederate supporter and he granted pardons to many Confederate leaders. He also vetoed a number of Reconstruction laws passed by Congress. He vetoed so many laws his nickname became this.
What is the Veto President?
Many people believe that the Civil War was a result of years of slavery disputes, however, historians looking back on the time recognize this as another major cause.
What are the state's rights?
The North and South had very different motives for this war. In the South, people were fighting to create a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states. However, in the North, people were fighting for an indivisible nation with this kind of government;
What is a sovereign national government?
At this place, the war ended. General Robert Lee surrendered to the Union forces and formally ended the war in Virginia.
What is the Appomattox Court House?
U.S. Grant's initials came to stand for this after giving extremely limited capitulation terms during battles. U.S. Grant's perseverance gave the Union their first major victory of the war.
Who is Unconditional Surrender Grant?
Lincoln was shot at—and almost killed— nearly ___ before he was assassinated.
What is two years?