This gold rush state,coming in as a free state, meant that the slave states were outnumbered, which made becoming a state controversial.
What is California?
100
Norths strategy to win the war against the South
What is the Anaconda plan ( cut off South’s imports & exports with a blockade)?
100
The Battle of Antietam
Which battle was the bloodiest day in all of American history?
100
The Union used income tax to pay for the Civil War
What is Income Tax?
100
He led a slave revolt
Who is Nat Turner?
200
They did this because they were afraid that Republicans would abolish (end) slavery.
Why did the South secede?
200
These are border states during the civil war
What is the importance of Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware?
200
Gettysburg
What battle was the turning point of the war?
200
Ships with iron sides – new technology for Civil War
What are ironclads?
200
He assassinated President Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
300
3 effects of the Compromise of 1850
What is the importance of
California = Free State
Congress passed fugitive slave law
Ban of buying & selling slaves in Washington DC?
300
The Northerners supported the Civil War in the beginning because of this reason
What is a reason to preserve (save) the Union?
300
This battle cut the Confederacy in two
What was so important about the Battle of Vicksburg?
300
Songs sang by slaves that held codes
What are spirituals?
300
She founded the Red Cross
Who is Clara Barton?
400
Fort Sumter
What is the that battle started the Civil War?
400
Diseases – made life in the camps hard
What was the number one killer during the Civil War?
400
This conquest helped Lincoln win re-election
What was the importance of Sherman’s conquest of Atlanta?
400
Food shortages that lead to hunger & death
What is famine?
400
Author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act – pushed for popular sovereignty. He sided with the Confederacy during Civil War
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
500
3 disadvantages AND 1 advantage the South faced going into the civil war
What is the importance of
No industry to make war supplies
Slavery reduced number of men that could fight
Poor transportation
AND It did not have to invade & conquer the North?
500
Lincoln used this to weaken the South’s ability to fight the war
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
This Confederate mistake led to the Union win at Gettysburg
What is Pickett’s Charge?
500
John Brown attacked this place to inspire slaves to fight for their freedom.