Southern Secession
This was the first state that seceded.
South Carolina
Act passed to free all slaves in rebellion states.
Emancipation Proclamation
This candidate won the election of 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
This state became a slave state in the Compromise after California became a free state.
Missouri
The North used this strategy to take down the Confederacy.
Anaconda Plan
This was the last straw for the southern states causing them to secede.
Election of 1860 results
This law required runaway slaves to be returned to their masters if caught.
Fugitive Slave Act
Abraham Lincoln was chosen to be the candidate for this political party.
Republican Party
The number of bills that made up the Compromise of 1850.
Five
This was the bloodiest battles in the Civil War.
Battle of Gettysburg
This American politician was opposed to the southern secession.
Alexander Stephens
This man went to court to sue for his freedom.
Dred Scott
Lincoln won the election without the support of this part of the country.
The south
The winner of the election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
General Sherman and his troops' march from Atlanta to Savannah.
March to Sea
Southern states thought they wouldn't have to do this after they left the Union.
Follow laws the Union made
People got to vote whether or not they wanted slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
This is the number of electoral votes for Lincoln.
180 votes
The Compromise prohibited this in Washington D.C.
Slave trade
When Sherman's troops reached South Carolina, they did this to the capital.
Burned the capital down
This is the date and place the Georgia Secession Convention was held.
1861, Milledgeville
The invention of the cotton gin increased the dependence on this.
Slavery
These were the other three Democratic candidates running for president.
Stephen Douglas, John Bell, and John Steve Breckinridge
This was the goal of the Compromise of 1850.
This side won the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Union