The two major Union victories known as the turning points of the war were ________________.
Gettysburg - Deaths
Vicksburg- Spilt them into two
Made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state
Missouri Compromise
Overturned the Missouri Compromise and allowed states to CHOOSE if they were a slave or free state
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Made California a Free state and outlawed slave trade in Washington DC
Compromise of 1850
Which abolitionist led an attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia? Southerners feared that abolitionists and freed slaves were a danger to them.
John Brown
Slaves were a slave (property) even if they crossed state lines into a free state.
Dred Scott Decision
He delivered a stolen ship, the CSS Planter to the blockade and gave valuable information about Charleston's defenses to the Union.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
Blockade southern ports, Break Confederacy into two sections, and Attack Richmond VA.
Allegiance to a side not your country
Sectionalism
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious/southern states "are, and henceforward shall be free