Culture of North and South
Many cities and factories were in this area
What is the North?
A movement to end all slavery that spread in the North
What is the abolitionist movement?
This side lacked many railroads to quickly transport supplies/troops
What is a Southern disadvantage?
This side's strategy was to trade with Britain to get supplies while playing defense
What is the Confederate plan?
The act of trying to abolish slavery
What is Abolition?
The area with large fields and plantations with very few factories
What is the South?
This compromise drew an invisible line through the country and made it so free states would be above the line and slave states would be below
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This side only had to defend their territory
What is a Southern advantage?
This river was important for the North to win
What is the Mississippi River?
When workers collectively decide to protest by refusing to work until their demands are met
What is a Worker Strike?
The Southern economy was based around this practice
What is slavery?
Laws that made it illegal to help any enslaved person
What are Fugitive Slave Laws?
This side needed to win without completely destroying the other side
What is a Northern disadvantage?
A type of warship that is covered in metal plating
What is an Ironclad?
When a limb is removed from the body due to damage or infection
What is Amputation?
The form of transportation that allowed cities to grow
This act made it so States could vote on whether they allowed slavery or not
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This side had about 90 percent of the nation’s manufacturing
What is a Northern advantage?
The name of the Union's plan to surround the South
What is the Anaconda Plan?
A declaration made by Abraham Lincoln that freed all enslaved people in the confederate states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
When workers team up so they can demand better pay or working conditions
What is a Union?
This was a failed rebellion where a man tried to take over an armory and convince enslaved people to rebel
What is John Brown's rebellion or the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
They had most of America’s best military officers
What is a Southern disadvantage?
The reason the Confederacy won more battles in the East
What is the leadership of Robert E. Lee?
When a state leaves the Union
What is secede? (or secession)
A system of safehouses that helped enslaved people escape to the North
What is the Underground Railroad
The Supreme Court case where it was determined that all Black Americans are not citizens and therefor have no rights
What is the Dred Scott case?
This side had a population of about 22 million
What is a Northern advantage?
What the Union troops did while marching to the sea
The basic physical systems and structures that support a region, country, or business (such as roads, train lines, telephone wires, etc.)
What is Infrastructure?