North and South
The North was primarily made up of these states, meaning that there were laws there prohibiting slavery.
What are free states?
Before the Civil War, states were added to the country as either _______ or _______, in order to keep a balance of power and keep the country from fighting.
What is either free or slave?
This is the term used for a person who fought to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
This is the name of the Union's plan that looks like a snake wrapping around the South.
What is the "Anaconda Plan"?
This is the reason the Emancipation Proclamation is considered a turning point in the Civil War.
What is because it shifted the purpose of the war from maintaining the Union to ending slavery.
This term is used to describe the division and separation between the North, South, and West that will ultimately push the nation to Civil War
What is Sectionalism?
This Compromise drew a line across the West and declared that territory North of the line would be free, while territory South of the line would be slave.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This is a secret network of people and places who helped slaves escape to freedom.
What is the "Underground Railroad"?
This is what the North will do to Southern Ports from Gen. Winfield Scott's plan to defeat the Confederacy.
What is a naval blockade?
This invention fundamentally altered the way Civil War soldiers fought in formation.
What is the Gatling Gun?
The economies of the North and South were different. This is the primary economy and labor of the South.
What is dependence on agriculture (or farming), relying on slave labor?
This is the name of the violence and murder that occurred following the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This woman was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This is what the North will do to the Mississippi River in Gen. Winfield Scott's plan to defeat the Confederacy.
What is take control to divide the Confederacy?
This is how Total War differs from other military engagements.
What is war that is waged against civilians and their property in order to achieve a complete victory over the enemy.
The economies of the North and South were different. This is the primary economy and labor of the North.
What is industrial (or factory) growth, fueled by immigrant labor and natural resources?
This is the main problem with the Compromise of 1850, which allowed California to enter as a free state.
What is the stricter Fugitive Slave Act that led to the kidnapping of free African Americans in the North?
This is the decision that the Supreme Court made when Dred Scott sued for his freedom.
What is that people of African descent were not US citizens and, therefore, had no Constitutional rights?
This is the main purpose of Gen. Sherman's "March to the Sea" in 1864.
What is to cripple the Confederacy's capacity to wage war and demoralize the civilian populace?
These are the 2 reasons that Gettysburg is considered a turning point in the Civil War.
What is Because the Union had been losing many battles early in the war, the Confederacy tried attacking in the North but lost AND It was the bloodiest battle of the war with 46,000 soldiers dead.