Secession
The South seceded from the Union because the federal government was restricting what?
What are states' rights?
Bleeding Kansas occurred as a result of this act, established in 1854.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Comparatively advanced technology and a much higher number of factories in the North make up this concept that gave the Union an advantage.
What is industrialization?
This was the cash crop supporting the Southern economy.
What is cotton?
The year Abraham Lincoln was elected president
What is 1860?
This was the first southern state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
The concept of people of a state voting whether or not the state is a slave or free state.
What is popular sovereignty?
This system was an advantage to the North, assisting in the transportation of goods.
What is the railroad system,m?
This is another type of internationally sold crop that supported the Southern economy.
What is tobacco?
Linclon offered this experienced general a leadership position for the Union, but was rejected after Virginia seceded.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The Confederate Southern states met in this Alabama city to discuss their formal secession.
Where is Montgomery, Alabama?
This prominent case ruled that slaves were property and got rid of the 36'30' line.
What is the Dred Scott v Stanford case?
The North created this percentage of all manufactured goods during the years of the Civil War.
What is 90%?
This type of Southern-printed currency had relations to the inflation occurring in the South during the Civil War.
What is the Confederate dollar?
The states in the middle of the North and South during the Civil War were nicknamed this.
What are the boarder states?
How many Southern states seceded after the attack on Fort Sumter?
What is 4?
This compromise dealt with the argument over the newly acquired California and Mexican territory.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
To help pay for war expenses, the North introduced this new type of tax on workers.
What is the income tax?
These countries had their Southern supply of cotton cut off due to Union blockades of the Confederate ports.
What are France and Great Britain?
South Carolinians fired upon this fort in 1861 after taking Lincoln's lack of reinforcement as an act of aggression.
What is Fort Sumter?
This was the name of the government created by the seceded states.
What is the Confederate States of America?
What is the California Gold Rush?
Congress authorized this system to help create standard currency and stimulate the sale of government bonds in the North.
What is the National Banking System?
The reliance on these non-domestic markets caused economic struggles for the Confederacy.
What are foreign markets?
Lincoln's official reason for the Civil War
What is preserving the union?