Sectional Tensions
This compromise of 1820 temporarily balanced free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This compromise of 1850 included the controversial Fugitive Slave Act requiring Northern citizens to help capture runaway slaves
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This Union strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River to "squeeze" the Confederacy.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
Lincoln issued this proclamation in 1863, freeing slaves only in states still in rebellion against the Union.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
These technological advances, including rifled muskets and artillery, contributed to unprecedented Civil War casualties.
What were improved weapons and outdated tactics?
This 1854 act allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska territories, effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise line.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Lincoln won this election without carrying a single Southern state, prompting immediate secession threats.
What was the Election of 1860?
This Pennsylvania battle in July 1863 is often considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
Lincoln waited until after this September 1862 battle to issue the Emancipation Proclamation from a position of strength.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
The economic impact of the Civil War differed dramatically between these two regions, with one experiencing growth and the other devastation.
What were the North and South?
Stephen Douglas's attempt to reconcile popular sovereignty with the Dred Scott decision by arguing territories could exclude slavery through local laws.
What was the Freeport Doctrine?
This state was the first to secede from the Union immediately after Lincoln's election victory.
What was South Carolina?
The Confederacy's strategy relied heavily on gaining recognition and military support from these European powers.
What were Britain and France?
The Emancipation Proclamation was limited to rebellious states because Lincoln was primarily concerned with preserving this.
What was the Union?
The different regional reactions to John Brown's execution revealed this fundamental divide in American society.
What were opposing views on slavery and federal authority?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans could not be citizens and Congress could not prohibit slavery in territories.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
This constitutional principle allowed states to claim they could withdraw from the Union voluntarily.
What was states' rights?
400 Points
This Union victory gave the North complete control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two.
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
Both Union and Confederate governments suspended this constitutional protection during the war to arrest suspected traitors.
What was habeas corpus?
The Election of 1860's outcome suggested American democracy was becoming increasingly divided along these lines.
What is sectionalism?
This abolitionist's 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Virginia aimed to spark a slave rebellion but instead increased sectional tensions.
Who was John Brown
Lincoln's decision to resupply this federal fort in Charleston Harbor forced the Confederacy to fire the first shots of the Civil War.
What was Fort Sumter?
Sherman's march through Georgia employed these "total war" tactics, targeting civilian infrastructure to break Southern morale.
What was the destruction of railroads, farms, and supply lines?
The Fugitive Slave Act's most significant unintended consequence was turning many previously neutral Northerners into these.
What were abolitionists (or anti-slavery activists)?
Sectionalism became a major threat to national unity because economic, social, and political differences created these competing loyalties.
What is regionalism?