Causes
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act effect the Missouri Compormise?
New states would be able to choose for themselves if they had slavery or not. (Popular Sovereignty)
How did Grant's actions at the end of the war effect southern citizens?
He ordered the use of total warfare causing the destruction of private property across the south.
What are some strengths of the Union (north)?
Large Population
Industrial Economy
More Railroad Lines
West Point to train military officers
Large prairies in the north to grow food crops (Wheat)
What is Popular Soverignty?
The idea that people of a state/territory will decided for themselves to be a free or slave state.
Why did the Confederacy start drafting soldiers (forcing men to fight)?
There were so many soldiers dying, they were running our of troops.
What was the purpose of The Gettysburg Address?
It was to dedicate the cemetery at Gettysburg and to honor the soldiers who fought and died there.
How did Northerners feel about the Fugitive Slave Act?
They were angry with the Fugitive Slave act, and were trying to help free and escaped African American's to stay free.
Why was the Battle of Vicksburg so important?
It gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What states were effected by the Emancipation Proclamation?
Confederate states that had seceded and are fighting against the union.
Why did John Brown welcome/accept his punishment during his trial?
He knew that it would help gain attention for the Abolitionist Movement.
According to this passage, what is this soldier struggling with the most?
Our regiment did not have many wounded nor killed but a good many taken prisoners. . . . Pa, I want you to have me a pair of boots made. Those shoes you had made for me ripped all to pieces. Our regiment used everything we had. I have no blanket nor any clothes but what I have got.
He is asking for boots and other supplies because they do not have enough for the soldiers.
What was one of the greatest struggles faced by soldiers and leadership on both sides of the war?
So many soldiers were getting wounded and/or killed (casualties).
What is this person saying about secession?
Is the great Constitution under which we live here—covering this whole country—is it to be thawed and melted away by secession, as the snows on the mountain melt under the influence of a vernal sun—disappear almost unobserved, and die off? No, sir! no, sir! I will not state what might produce the disruption of the states; but, sir, I see as plainly as I see the sun in heaven—I see that disruption must produce such a war as I will not describe, in its twofold Character.
He feels that it will lead to a war
What happened in the Appomattox Courthouse?
General Robert E. Lee officially surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant ending the fighting of the war.
According to this passage, why was the Union fighting?
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
To honor the soldiers who fought and died in the war.