Before the War
True or False: Before the civil war, the North, South, and West were all very similar.
False
Where did most Americans live? North, South, or West?
North
What was tied to the South's economy?
Slavery
What is the belief called that the United States was destined by God to cover the entire North American continent?
Manifest Destiny
Which Northern Republican won the presidential election and fought to end slavery?
Abraham Lincoln
True or False: The biggest difference between the North, South, and West was the legality of slavery.
True
Before the civil war, did Northerners every do business with enslavers?
Yes
What percentage of white Southerners families were enslavers?
20-25%
What two groups of people were already living in the West and had no say in what was going on?
Indigenous and Mexican people
What was the name of the two sides of America that were fighting each other?
The Union and The Confederation
Before the civil war, how many free states were there?
19
Where did the Northerners not want slavery to expand to?
The West
Why did enslavers use enslaved people?
Generate profit
Before the war, did Westerners do business with enslavers?
Yes
What did the Emancipation Proclamation declare?
All enslaved people in the Confederate states were now free and that those who escaped were also free.
Before the war, how many slave states were there?
15
What was the group called who wanted to end slavery?
Abolitionists
20 or more
Did Western territories want to be open to slavery?
No
What does the 13th amendment do?
Outlaw slavery
All of the slave states were in the: North, South, or West?
South
What revolution brought great changes to the North?
Industrial
Southern farmers supported slavery and wanted to expand it where?
West
What happened to Indigenous and Mexican people in the west?
They were displaced.
Why did Jon Wilks Booth assassinate Abraham Lincoln?