Reform
A school for training high school graduates to become teachers.
What is Normal Schools?
In 1859, this abolitionist raided Harper's Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to incite a slave rebellion
Who is John Brown?
The two major areas in which the Northern States and Southern States Differed
Economy (economical practice) and Culture (way of life)
At the onset of the war, this region had the largest population but the weakest military leaders.
What is the North (Union)?
This victory gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, cutting off Eastern Confederate states from Western Confederate States.
What is the Battle (Siege) of Vicksburg?
This community is based on a vision of the "perfect" society.
What is a Utopian Society?
Stephen A. Douglas' approach to deciding on whether slavery would be allowed or outlawed in a new state or in newly acquired territories (means "letting the people decide").
What is popular sovereignty?
What economic practice of the South was a major cause of the American Civil War?
Slavery
These states were slave states and fought for the Union (This helped the Union maintain control of the Ohio and Missouri Rivers).
What are the Border States?
Signed by President Lincoln in 1862 and placed in effect January 1, 1863, this order freed all slaves in the rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Henry David Thoreau encouraged this when an individual viewed a law to be unjust.
What is Civil Disobedience?
This law made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal, and required their return to slaveholders.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This candidates name was not included on the ballots in the South for the presidential election of 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
The capital of the Confederacy was located here.
What is Richmond, VA?
This battle, a Union victory, marks the turning point in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and who Abraham Lincoln once called "The little woman who started a big war".
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This political party was created in 1854 of Northern Democrat's, Whigs. Free Soiler's and abolitionist members.
What is the Republican Party?
This was the first Southern state to secede from the Union in December of 1860.
South Carolina
This was the first major battle in the Civil War where Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson earned his famous nickname.
What is the The Battle of Bull Run (Battle of Manassas)?
The purpose of this military campaign through Georgia, was to strike fear in the citizens of the south, ruin the South's economy and its ability to fight.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
This compromise made in 1820 and proposed by Henry Clay, was to ease tensions over the issue of slavery in new territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
This land mark Supreme Court ruling found the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
What is the The Dredd Scott case (decision)?
The Kentucky Senator who proposed an amendment to the Constitution to save the Union in 1860.
John Crittenden
This battle most likely would have been a Union loss if General Lee's battle plans hadn't been discovered and given to General McClellan. (Also, the bloodiest 1 day battle of the Civil War).
What is the Battle of Antietam (Battle of Sharpsburg)?
On April 9, 1865, Union and Confederacy leaders met in this small town where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, thus ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?