Names
Who was the Republican candidate in the 1860 election was
President Abraham Lincoln
What name did the North go by?
Union
What name did the South go by?
Confederates, Confederacy, or the Confederate States of American.
A person who opposed slavery and wanted to end it immediately was
Abolitionist
Which side based their economy on slavery
The South
Who was the president of the Confederacy
President Jefferson Davis
What political party was the North?
Republican
Democrat's
The principle that federal government has only limited authority over each state.
States Rights
After the Election of 1860, many states chose to ____ from the Union.
Secede
Who was the man who sued his owners to receive his freedom, but the supreme court ruled against him.
Dred Scott
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The north would block off all shipping/trade from the south and attack down the Mississippi and spilt the confederacy into two parts.
Where did the south put their capital?
Richmond Virginia
That the state would withdraw from the Union and become an independent nation.
Secede/Secession
Who won the first battle of the Civil War? Write the nations full name.
The Confederate States of American
Who was the Confederate general who stood "like a stone wall" during the fighting at Bull Run.
Thomas Jackson
Name two of the advantages that the North had.
Railroads/factories: They could produce more supplies.
They had more people (twenty two million people)
The Navy
Name two of the advantages that the South had.
Home turf advantage, they did not have to travel.
Formally trained military leaders.
More military experience because of the Mexican war.
When an army surrounds a city or fort and tries to take control by cutting off supplies like food and water, so the people inside have to give up.
Anaconda Plan
Who was the first state who decided to leave the Union?
South Carolina
Who was the union General who was trusted by Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Explain three reasons why the North did not support slavery?
Unchristian: All people are created equally.
Financially: The slaved did not want to be there so they did not work as hard, opposed to paid workers.
Dred Scott case
Slave literature or Uncle Tom's Cabin
Name two of the Generals that are on the south's side.
General Thomas Jackson, Robert E. Lee, John Bell Hood, Joseph Johnston, J. E. B. Stuart.
This is a special order made by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that said all enslaved people in the states fighting against the U.S. were now free.
Emancipation Proclamation
How did the civil war officially start?
With Fort Sumter, which is a federal property that the south had taken over. Lincoln wanted to send supplies and told the south he would not hurt them or bring any weapons, but the south did not believe him. And they attacked the soldiers bringing the supplies and the people in the building.