Causes
Policy that allowed the people in a territory to decide for themselves about the issue of slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
She helped over three hundred slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This was the main goal of the North throughout the war.
What is to preserve the Union.
The place where Robert Lee surrendered to Grant to effectively end the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
Scarcity of food, destroyed land and infrastructure, worthless Confederate currency.
What are economic problems of the South after the Civil War?
This made it clear to the country that "slaves were property".
What is The Dred Scott decision?
The author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" who convinced many people to oppose slavery
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The South based it's reason for seceding on this principle which says that states may use popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery.
What is the States' Rights Theory
A three day battle that is known as the "turning point" of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
Despite Federal laws granting freedom and liberties, these state laws were aimed at limiting freedom and liberties to freedmen & women.
What are Black Codes
This event was marked by a man trying to start a slave revolt by arming slaves with weapons.
What is John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry?
It was a meeting to discuss how to bring about equal rights for women.
What was the purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention?
Better military leadership and familiarity with the land (home field advantage).
What are advantages of the South?
An important "win" for Lincoln so that he could release his Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
It established the legality of "separate but equal".
What was the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?
This event marked the immediate cause of southern secession from the Union.
What is the Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860?
Slavery in the Kansas territory would be decided by popular sovereignty.
What is a provision of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
More resources for war supplies, bigger population and manufacturing to make war supplies.
What are advantages for the North?
This was an example of the latest naval war technology.
What is the iron-clad ship?
This plan granted amnesty and re-admittance to the Union once ten percent of voters swore a loyalty oath.
What is Lincoln's 10% Plan?
It provided that the remaining territory in the Mexican Cession would decide the slavery issue by popular sovereignty
What is the Compromise of 1850?
A New Englander who believed the time for talk and compromise was over; only extreme action could end slavery.
Who is John Brown.
Slaves in the Confederacy were free.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation decree?
General Sherman's policy of destroying everything in order to show civilians the impact of war.
What is "total war"?
It made slavery illegal throughout the United States
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?