Lead-Up to Civil War
This was the new nation created by the southern states when they seceded from the United States
The Confederate States of America
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by_________.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This city was the Union capital
Washington, D.C.
This Union officer led the victory in Vicksburg and eventually headed the entire Union army
Ulysses S. Grant
The North’s plan to blockade the South using the Union navy was called the
Anaconda Plan
These were pro-slavery laws written by people from Missouri to govern the people of Kansas
The Lecompton Constitution
Slavery was abolished in Washington, D.C. because of this Compromise
The Compromise of 1850
This city was the Confederate capital
Richmond, VA
He was the head of the Confederate army
Robert E. Lee
Border States were _____________ states that remained with the Union
slave states
This admitted California as a Free State and allowed New Mexico and Utah to decide for themselves about legalizing slavery
The Compromise of 1850
Chief Justice Roger Taney decided slaves were considered________________ in Dred Scott v. Sandford
Property
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at
Fort Sumter
The March to the Sea was led by
William T. Sherman
These were ironclad ships (2)
Merrimac and the Monitor
This law ordered all citizens to assist in the return of runaway slaves
The Fugitive Slave Act
Southern states became upset with the election of Abraham Lincoln as President in 1860 because the lack of what type of vote(s)
Electoral votes
Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee were apart of this side
The Confederate States
Lincoln had difficulty finding a good head ______.
General
The Emancipation Proclamation kept what foreign country out of the war
Great Britain
This law allowed the people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves about legalizing slavery
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
A major issue that led to the Civil War was
a. Slavery
b. Hitler's rule
c. the Ku Klux Klan
d. Lincoln's 10% plan
a. Slavery
The bloodiest DAY of war occurred at the Battle of
Antietam
On April 14th, 1865, he assassinated President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater.
John Wilkes Booth
This freed the slaves in the rebelling states, not the Border States
Emancipation Proclamation