The Kansas Nebraska Act organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska on the basis of_____?
Popular sovereignty
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People who didn’t believe in slavery were called______.
abolitionists
100
Who was the President of the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
100
What was the first battle that began the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
100
According to the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves were NOT declared free in which group of states?
The border states
200
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
A law which forbade both Northerners and Southerners to assist runaway slaves
200
What invention (and inventor) sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
200
Who was the provisional president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
200
What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
Gettysburg, PA
200
Along what river was the South split in two?
Mississippi River
300
Why did Uncle Tom’s Cabin anger northern abolitionists?
It depicted the evils of slavery and helped justify their feelings that slavery was morally wrong
300
Why was slavery less necessary in the northern economy?
The north was more industrial and didn't have large plantations
300
Which general's troops filled the air with "terrifying screams", as they raced toward the Union line?
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
300
What was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War?
Antietam
300
What did southerners call the First Battle of Bull Run?
Battle of Manassas
400
Why did John Brown raid Harper’s Ferry?
He wanted to steal weapons to start an anti-slavery rebellion
400
What about the southern economy made slavery seem necessary?
It was primarily agricultural and needed labor to help grow crops
400
What was General McClellan's strategy to take Richmond known as?
The Peninsula Campaign
400
What was the name of the union strategy to surround the South and strangle it?
Anaconda Plan
400
What were some effects of the war on the South? (at least 2 things)
Cities, buildings, and plantations were burned and destroyed, slaves were freed in the former Confederacy
500
Besides slavery, what other major issue increased tensions between the Union and Confederacy?
The issue of states' rights
500
Explain the Dred Scott decision (3 things)
The Supreme Court ruled that:
1. African Americans were not US citizens
2. The MO Compromise's restriction on slavery was unconstitutional
3.Congress did not have the right to ban slavery in any federal territory
500
President Lincoln said this- "I can't spare this man. He fights."- about which general?
Ulysses S. Grant
500
What was one of the last battles of the Civil War where the Confederacy surrendered?
Appomattox Courthouse
500
Union Control of the Mississippi River depended on the taking of what city?