What caused the American Civil War?
uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.
What were the southern states called?
The Confederacy
What were the northern states called?
The Union
The Fugitive Slave Act of _____ was a law passed by Congress to extend the reach of slavery into the free states of the North.
What is 1850?
What is The Gettysburg address?
Who won the American Civil War?
The Union won the American Civil War.
Who was president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
who was president of the Union?
________ was a period of violent conflict in the Kansas Territory between 1854 and 1861. The conflict was a result of an act that was passed in 1854,
What is bleeding Kansas?
A landmark 1857 Supreme Court case that denied citizenship to people of African descent
What is the Dredd Scott Case?
How many people died during the Civil War?
It is estimated that from 752,000 to 851,000 soldiers died during the American Civil War
____ was the number of tribes that were forced to relocate during the removal act.
What are 5 civilized tribes?
How many states make up the Confederacy?
What are 11 States?
_________ was a document issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863
Emancipation Proclamation
In 1859, one abolitionist attempted to start a rebellion of enslaved people in Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Who is John Brown?
Under President __________, the "Indian Removal" policy involved the forced relocation of Native American tribes living in the southeastern United States.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Who's military genius and personality is often credited with holding the Confederate Army together?
Robert E. Lee
Who was the most successful general in the Union army
Ulysses S Grant
a forced relocation of American Indians from their homelands in the eastern United States to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) between 1830 and 1850
What is the Trail of Tears?
Which army waived this flag?
Who is the confederate soldier?
What was the Confederate fighting for?
protect slavery
Cotton was cultivated and transported to _______ to be manufactured by __________ to make clothing.
What are Textile factories/ Mill Factories and women/ children?
Why did the North had more men and war materials?
The North had a better transportation network, mainly highways, canals, and railroads, which could be easily used to resupply military forces in the field.
The 19th-century belief that the United States was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
36°30' latitude line that was established by the Compromise of 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise?