Causes
What was the Compromise of 1850?
When the free states gained California and Utah, and the slave states gained New Mexico and the Fugitive Slave Act.
Many women and children became *this* by the end of the war-
Widows and orphans.
Who won the Election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
What was the Norths plan to weaken the south's military by restricting trade?
Union Blockade (Anaconda Plan)
Where was the prison camp the 13,000 Union soldier died at?
Andersonville.
Why did GA want to leave the Union?
Consequences of the civil war include economic hardships in which states?
Southern states.
Who led the Atlanta Campaign?
William T. Sherman.
What was the south's strategy to win the war?
To out last the north.
The Union was the..?
North
What did the Dred Scott case declare? And why was it significant?
It declared that African American's were property, and therefore, couldn't sue. It was significant because it deepened the tension between the north and the south.
After the war urbanization increased in...?
Northern states.
Who lost the case that declared that African American's were property?
Dred Scott
Why did the North seize the Mississippi?
To split the confederacy.
Which states were welcomed as free states in the Compromise of 1850?
Utah and California
What did South Carolina do to the tariff that the North enforced?
Nullified it.
The war reduced materials and what?
Human Capital.
Who was the Confederate president?
Jefferson Davis
What did Abraham hope to cause from the Emancipation Proclamation?
To find peace between the North and south states, or, to encourage France and England to stop trading with them.
Where was the biggest Confederate victory fought?
Chickamauga.
What did the southern states believe about state and federal rights?
They believed that state rights were more powerful than federal rights.
Were slaves freed by the end of the civil war? True/False
True.
Who was the Union general?
Ulysses S. Grant
Who did the North capture that disturbed the command lines at the capital?
Richmond
How many states withdrew from the Union following the election of 1860?