Causes 1
What was the impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin on American society?
Brought awareness to the treatment of the enslaved and made the issue more prevalent in American society
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
Split the rest of the Louisiana Purchase Territory into Kansas and Nebraska - allowed them to vote on the issue of slavery
How many African American enlisted after the Emancipation Proclamation?
189,000
What were the draft riots?
Riots, mostly in the North, as a result of the drafts used by both sides to increase military sizes
Who were the Radical Republicans?
Members of Congress that wanted immediate end of slavery during the war and punishment of the South after
What was the final event that led to Southern Secession?
Election of 1860/Election of Lincoln
What was the first event officially began the Civil War?
Attack on Fort Sumter
What was the Battle of Antietam? What is its significance?
bloodiest day of war - led to the Emancipation Proclamation
What were two ways women gained opportunities during the war?
Working in factories, military participation, teachers and nurses
Rescind secession and ratify the 13th - Presidential Reconstruction
What is sectionalism? Provide an example.
excessive devotion to local interests and customs to a region of a nation - Southern view of themselves - state first - South second - Union third
What are two major effects of the Compromise of 1850?
California entered as a free state.
Area from Mexican Cession divided into Utah and New Mexico - slavery issue to be decided by popular sovereignty in these states
Ended slave trade in Washington D.C.
Made a strict Fugitive Slave Law
Settled border problems between New Mexico and Texas
What is the Anaconda Plan? List the 3 parts.
1. Take the Capital (Richmond, VA)
2. Naval Blockade
3. Control the Mississippi
What is William Tecumseh Sherman known for? What was the effect of this event?
Capture of Atlanta/March to the Sea - Lincoln's election/Total War
List and describe the 3 amendments we discussed.
13th - end slavery
14th - citizenship for blacks
15th - voting rights - race
What did the Missouri Compromise do?
Missouri entered as a slave state
Maine entered as a free state.
The 36’ 30’’ line is drawn - slavery is allowed in the South in new territories, prohibited in the North
List and define the three groups involved in Bleeding Kansas.
Jayhawkers - anti-slavery group
Bushwhackers - pro-slavery group
Border Ruffians - pro-slavery raiders from Missouri that attempted to sway the vote on slavery
List all of the presidents/major generals of the Civil War and what side they fought on (6 total)
Abraham Lincoln - Union President
Jefferson Davis - Confederate President
Ulysses Grant & William Tecumseh Sherman - Union Generals
Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson - Confederate Generals
What was Grant often referred to as? Why?
Butcher - was willing to lose lots of men if it meant victory
Describe the difference between sharecropping and tenant farming
sharecroppers rent everything, tenant farmers own most things except land
What was the name of John Brown's attack on a federal arsenal? What was its effect?
Explain the Dred Scott Decision and its effect.
Enslaved man sues for freedom because his owner had taken him to free territory
The Supreme Court ruled he was not a citizen, but property and therefore he could not file a lawsuit - Congress could not ban slavery in any of the territories - repealed the Missouri Compromise
What were the 4 main advantages for both sides?
North: railroads, population, factories, political leadership
South: war of attrition, geography, states' rights (will to fight), military leadership
Where was peace negotiated and what were the terms?
Appomattox Court House - lay down weapons and go home
What was the Compromise of 1877?
the Democrats agreed to Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) being president and the Republicans agreed to end Reconstruction