North vs. South
This region had more than two-thirds of the nation’s railroad tracks by 1860.
What is the North?
This battle marked the official start of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This 1863 speech included the phrase “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The Compromise of 1877 required Hayes to withdraw these from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction.
What are federal troops?
This allowed for the growth of colonial legislatures and less dependence on trade with Britain prior to the French and Indian War.
What is Salutary Neglect?
Geographic factors made this region rely heavily on slavery and the plantation system.
What is the South?
This 1863 battle was the turning point in the East, ending Lee’s hopes of invading the North.
What is Gettysburg?
Lincoln suspended this right, challenging individual liberties during the Civil War.
What is habeas corpus?
This organization most successfully provided education for former slaves.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
These groups created a communication network between colonies to collaborate on how to respond to growing tensions with Britain.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
The Union naval blockade of the South hurt the Confederacy’s finances by preventing this crop’s export.
What is cotton?
General Grant and General Sherman were more successful than earlier Union leaders because they employed these kinds of strategies.
What are aggressive strategies and perseverance?
The Emancipation Proclamation allowed these states to keep their slaves, showing Lincoln’s priority was preserving the Union.
What are the border states?
This group pushed for harsher treatment of the South and protection of freedmen’s rights.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
He was the second president and faced criticism following the passage of the Sedition Act, limiting criticism of the president by political opponents, but allowed for the peaceful transition of power in the election of 1800 to Thomas Jefferson.
Who is President John Adams?
This city was targeted by Sherman because it was a key Confederate manufacturing and railroad hub.
What is Atlanta?
If Jefferson Davis had secured this, the Confederacy might have gained weapons, supplies, and loans.
What is European recognition?
After Antietam, Lincoln issued this document to shift the war’s focus to ending slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
President Andrew Johnson was impeached for violating this law.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
Henry Clay's economic plan to integrate the economies of the North, South, and West, utilizing protective tariffs to raise revenue and the establishment of Second National Bank to fund infrastructure projects.
What is the American System?
Vicksburg was a turning point because it controlled access to this major river.
What is the Mississippi River?
This battle’s Union momentum gave Lincoln the chance to redefine the war with the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
In both the Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural, Lincoln emphasized this goal for the nation after the war.
What is reconciliation and preservation of the Union?
This 1867 law divided the South into military districts and required new constitutions.
What is the First Reconstruction Act?
This national issue was exacerbated by territory gained in the Mexican-American War, provisions of the Compromise of 1850, and bitter disagreements over the issue of slavery.
What is sectionalism?