Farming remained the most common way of earning a living
What is the South?
1820 - Missouri was a slave state; Maine was a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise
What was the major issue that divided that nation?
Slavery
What started the Civil War?
The firing on Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Civil War Nurse, founder of the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
People were moving from farms to towns and cities to work in factories
What is the North?
California was a free state. Southwest Territories would decide about slavery
What is the Compromise of 1850
This killed most soldiers during the Civil War
Disease
What was the first major battle of the war?
The battle of Manassas or Bull Run
President of the US
Abraham Lincoln
Close knit families
Both
People voted on the slavery issues (popular sovereignty - right of the people living there to be able to vote)
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Why did the Confederate Army March to Gettysburg
To steal shoes
This battle divided the south, the north gained control of the Mississippi
The Battle of Vicksburg
General of the Union Army
Ulysses S. Grant
Settlers from here wanted a life without slaves
What is the North
What two teams are in the NBA Finals?
Golden State Warriors and Toronto Raptors
Why did so many battles happen in Virginia?
DC and Richmond are the capitals - close together
Turning point of the war, the north denied Lee's invasion
What is the battle of Vicksburg
Leader of Confederate of Army (Army of Northern Virginia)
Robert E. Lee
Cotton made plantation owners rich
What is the South?
What major women's soccer tournament is starting on June 8th?
The Women's World Cup
Name that plan - The north wanted to strangle the south, they blocked ports so the south couldn't get supplies
The Anaconda Plan
The place where Lee surrendered to Grant, in 1865, ending the Civil War
What is Appomattox Court House
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis