Key Terms
What is the draft?
A selective service system for required military service.
Under the Compromise of 1850, did California enter as a free, or a slave state?
A free state.
What was the role of women during the war?
Bonus: Where did they surrender at?
The Union/North
Appomattax Courthouse.
Who is the President during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What is secession?
Leaving the union.
The Dredd Scott case made it so enslaved people were considered what?
Property.
Was the Union the North or the South, and did they fight for or against slavery?
Was the Confederacy the North or the South, and did they fight for or against slavery?
Confederacy: South, For.
Why did Lincoln initially resist having African Americans enlist in the military?
He was worried about losing the Border States/unpopular opinion.
What is an Abolitionist?
Bonus: Name one
An abolitionist is somebody who wants to end slavery.
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, John Brown
What is popular sovereignty?
What is slavery protected under due to the Dredd Scott Case Decision?
The Constitution.
Why was the South so afraid of enlisting African Americans into their military?
They were afraid they would rebel and fight back.
Lincoln changed the Civil War from being about what to what with the Emancipation Proclamation?
Preserving the Union to ending slavery.
What is the Underground Railroad?
A route that leads runaway slaves to freedom, either heading to the North or to Canada.
What is Habeas Corpus?
Can't jail someone without lawful grounds.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act, that was passed under the Compromise of 1850?
People were forced to turn in any runaway slaves.
What were 2-3 advantages of EITHER the North OR the South?
North: ↑ Peeps. & Resources, better banks, ships, & railroads
South: Better mil. leaders, morale, & knew the land
What does the Emancipation Proclamation do?
It LEGALLY frees all enslaved people.
What is Secession in the context of the Civil War?
Southern states leaving the Union.
Why was the Battle of Antietam so deadly?
The tech was ahead of the tactics.
The conflict that happened after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was later called what by historians?
"Bleeding Kansas"
What kind of battle tactic did Sherman's March accomplish?
Total War.
What were 2 of the 3 "costs" of the Civil War?
Union saved
Nat. Gov. > State Gov.
Millions of Afr. Amer. Freed!
What do the southern states argue is the reason the secede from the Union?
State's Rights.