Causes
Harriet Beacher Stowe wrote which ground breaking novel?
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
Who was elected president of the United States in 1860 which caused many in the south to be angry?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired where?
Fort Sumter
What did the economy of the north consist largely of?
Industrial (factories)
He wanted to steal weapons to start an anti-slavery rebellion
What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
Gettysburg
Where were majority of the railroads located?
North
Who was Harriet Tubman and how did she contribute to the Civil War?
She was an escaped slave that created the Underground Railroad
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
What was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War?
Antietam
Name at least 2 of the 5 border states
West Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri
Name the enslaved African-American who sued for his freedom in 1846, and had his case heard in the Supreme Court in 1857
Dred Scott
Responsible for the creation of the American Red Cross?
What was the name of the union strategy to surround the South and strangle it?
Anaconda Plan
Where was the capital of the Confederacy located? (city & state)
Richmond, VA
Besides slavery, what other major issue increased tensions between the Union and Confederacy?
The issue of states' rights
The Emancipation Proclamation...
freed all of the slaves residing in rebeling territory
Who were the major Union & Confederate generals?
Union- Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate- Robert E. Lee
What was one of the last battles of the Civil War where the Confederacy surrendered?
Appomattox Courthouse
This law, passed in 1820, established Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also created an invisible line across the US; north of the line would be free, south would be slave.
Missouri Compromise of 1820