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The President of the Union during the Civil War.
What is Abraham Lincoln?
This allowed for two states; Kansas and Nebraska, to vote on if they wanted to be free or slave states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia.
What are Confederate States?
Battles in the Civil War were near these locations.
What are the capital Cities?
This battle started the Civil War.
The Firing on Fort Sumter.
The General of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
As a result of the Kansas-Nebraska act, this event happened.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
A state that was formed when western counties of Virginia did not want to leave the Union.
What is West Virginia?
Using ships to block ports.
What is a blockade?
Where the Civil War ended.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
The President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
A compromise in which Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Oregon, California, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine.
What are Union states?
Both sides in the Civil war wanted control of this river.
What is the Mississippi River?
Slavery and States' Rights.
What are the two biggest reasons for the Civil War?
The General of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
A compromise which allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, Banned slave trade in Washington D.C., allowed the Southwest territories to decide about slavery on their own, and passed the fugitive slave act.
What is the compromise of 1850?
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware.
What are border states?
You want to have this land in battle.
What is the high ground?
The first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the first battle of Manassas?
A former slave that promoted African American Involvement in the Civil war by creating the United States Colored Troops.
Who id Frederick Douglas?
Stated that people were required to catch runaway slave and return them to their "owners".
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
A state that wanted slavery but did not want to leave the Union.
As a result of this action, the South effectively got split into two different geographical locations.
What is the Union Blockade?
This ended slavery in the North and the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?