A person who believes in racism, the doctrine that a certain human race is superior to any or all others
What is a Racist
100
Blocking the supply lines and escape routes of a city to force it to surrender
What is a Siege
100
Also called the South and incorporated the states that seceded from the United States of America to form their own nation
What is the Confederacy
100
The major political party in America most sympathetic to states rights and willing to tolerate the spread of slavery to the territories, opposed a strong Federal government
What is the Democratic Party
100
New York
What is Albany
200
President Lincoln's speech that freed African slaves in the Confederate states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
200
A smoothbore firearm fired from the shoulder and the most common gun found on both sides. Thrust from exploding powder shoots the bullet forward like a chest pass in basketball
What is a musket
200
Also called the North or the United States, the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War
What is the Union
200
A political party created in the 1850s to prevent the spread of slavery to the territories. Eventually came to oppose the entire existence of slavery
What is the Republican Party
200
Pennsylvania
What is Harrisburg
300
Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery
What is an Abolitionist
300
To admit defeat and give up in the face of overwhelming odds
What is surrender
300
To withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization. The South did this
What is Secession
300
Loyal to the Confederate States. Also Southern or Confederate
What is a Rebel
300
Virginia
What is Richmond
400
Doctrine that said the people of each territory should be able to decide for themselves if slavery should be allowed in their territory when it became a state
What is Popular Sovereignty
400
A series of military operations that form a distinct phase of the War
What is campaign
400
A boundary surveyed in the 1760s that ran between Pennsylvania to the North and Delaware, Maryland and (West) Virginia to the South. It became a symbolic division between free states and slave states
What is the Mason-Dixon Line
400
A Northerner; someone loyal to the Federal government of the United States. Also, Union, Federal, or Northern