Antebellum
A period of time before a war, usually connected by an overarching theme or problem. This time period in US history is the time between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
Antebellum
This word refers to a state leaving the Union
Secede
Initially, this side was winning all the battles
The South/Confederacy
The leaders of the Northern Army and Southern Army at the end of the war were
Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee
Reconstruction occurred after the _________
Civil War
This key term describes the major divisions between people in the United States during the Antebellum that led to the Civil War
Sectionalism
This was ultimately the reason why the South seceded from the Union
To preserve slavery (fear that Lincoln would take away their slaves)
The President of the Confederacy during the Civil War was ___________ and the President of the Union was ____________.
Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln
The Confederacy’s final stand was in ____________, Virginia in April, 1865
Appomattox
Reconstruction lasted from _______ to ________
c. 1865 to 1877
Sectionalism led to the civil war because people violently disagreed over the issue of _________
Slavery
This event was the boiling point that caused the Confederacy to leave the Union.
Lincoln winning the Election of 1860, defeating Douglas.
This battle marked the turning point in the Civil War, when the Union began winning more battles
The Battle of Gettysburg
The terms of the surrender were relatively simple and surprisingly ________ to the South
Nice
The goal of ___________ Reconstruction under Lincoln and Johnson was to bring the Southern states back into the Union as quickly and easily as possible.
Presidential
Because of sectionalism, the United States was split regionally/geographically between mostly pro-slavery people in the ________ and mostly anti-slavery people in the ________.
South, North
This was the initial strategy of the Union army (north)
The Anaconda Plan
The North adopted this strategy later in the war in order, ultimately crippling the South and eventually ending the war
Total War
On January 31, 1865, before the war even ended, Congress passed the 13th Amendment in order to __________.
The goal of radical reconstruction was...
to punish the South for rebelling against the Union
According to this Act passed in 1850, people from all states, free state or not, were required to capture runaway slaves and return them to their masters. Slaves could no longer run away to free states to escape slavery.
Fugitive Slave Act
According to the Anaconda Plan, the Union would cut off the South from trade and gaining resources at these two points
The Coast & Mississippi River
Ultimately, why did the South lose the Civil War?
They ran out of supplies and couldn’t fight back effectively.
Ultimately, the Civil War did not solve the problem of ___________
Sectionalism
Technically yes, it was successful because the South came back into the Union and the South was punished for the majority of Reconstruction. Overall though, no, it was not successful because the sectionalism that drove the country into a Civil War was never addressed and the nation didn’t truly begin to come back together for another century.