Transportation
The majority of the railroads were in the.....
The Northern states
The economy of the North was primarily based in 2 features...
Manufacturing & Industry
The compromise that entered Missouri as a slave state, entered Maine as a free state, and prohibited the institution of slavery above the 36°30' line
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
The strategy of the Union army(North) to constrict the Confederate states into submission by cutting off trade to other countries
The Anaconda Plan
To leave an organized political body or government
Secede(Secession)
This invention allowed for better transport and trade along rivers such as the Mississippi
The steamboat
The economy of the South was primarily based in...
Agriculture(Cash Crops)
This Supreme Court case involved a slave suing for their freedom on grounds that he had lived in a "free" territory
The Dred Scott decision (1857)
The First Battle of Bull Run was a victory for the...
Confederate Army (South)
This invention was created by Eli Whitney in 1793, allowed for cotton seeds to be separated easier and faster than by hand
The Cotton Gin
This was a man-made body of water that aided the North with transportation and moving goods
The Erie Canal
The economy of the South used this labor force to grow cash crops
Slave Labor (Slavery)
This book was published in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, sold two million copies in it two years, and influenced people to empathize with enslaved African Americans
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
General McClellan's frequent mistake at the Battle of Antietam was that he
waited too long (Too cautious)
Southern States had a very rigid social structure that placed African Americans at the bottom, poor white workers in the middle, and....
Plantation owners(wealthy elite) on top
Southern states heavily relied on the use of steamboats and rivers to trade with...
Tariff
This compromise entered California as a free state and allowed New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah to vote on allowing slavery into their territories before applying for statehood
The Compromise of 1850
Besides combat, soldiers who ended up in hospitals would frequently die from...
This order declared all slaves in Confederate states be free. While having no immediate effect on slavery, it shifted the Northern cause for the war to end slavery.
Emancipation Proclamation
Because river travel was the South's main form of transportation, most towns and cities sprang up along...
Waterways
The majority of banks were located in...
The Northern states
Disagreements over the issue on voting to allow slavery in a territory with "popular sovereignty" turned violent and lives were lost.
Involved abolitionists, Free Soilers, and Southern Democrats
"Bleeding Kansas"
During the Civil War, the Confederate Army did not have to invade the North and had the advantage of fighting a...
The right of an accused person to be brought before a judge to determine whether they are imprisoned lawfully
Habeas Corpus