Antebellum I
A compromise of Congress that allowed by Missouri (a slave state) and Maine (a free state) to be admitted to the Union.
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The book that influenced many to oppose slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Confederate general who led the Army of Northern Virginia
Robert E. Lee
The name of the Union's strategy to isolate the Confederacy militarily and economically
Anaconda Plan
The belief that it was the will of God that the United States expand it borders from coast to coast.
Manifest Destiny
The focus of the southern economy
Farming/agriculture
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Civil War began after Confederate forces fired upon this Union fort
Fort Sumter
The Union general credited with defeating the Confederacy
Ulysses S. Grant
This was a series of economic changes, including the development of new modes of transportation and the beginnings of industrialization, during the Antebellum period.
Market Revolution
California entered the Union after this Congressional compromise
Compromise of 1850
This abolitionist devised a plan to seize weapons from a federal arsenal and use those weapons to the free the slaves in the south.
John Brown
The first state to secede
South Carolina
The battle that turned the tide of the war in favor of the Union. It was one of the few battles to be fought in Union territory.
The Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
The invention of this led to a new method of transportation and faster trade along the Mississippi River.
Steamboat
Which president is responsible for the Louisiana Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson
Volunteers who helps African Americans escape slavery in the the South through secret routes, and the person best known for this.
Underground Railroad / Harriet Tubman
Considered by many to be the greatest of the Confederacy's generals--he was killed in a friendly fire accident.
Stonewall Jackson
This Union victory along the Mississippi River that effectively isolated the Confederacy by cutting off trade on the Mississippi River
Battle of Vicksburg (1863)
This political concept called on the citizens of a given territory to decide on the legality of slavery in that territory.
Popular Sovereignty
One of the ways that the North excelled in manufacturing and industry was due to the presence of thousands of miles of:
Rail/Railroad lines
This Supreme Court decision declared that black Americans could not be citizens of the United States
Dred-Scott vs. Sanford (1857)
The capital of the Confederate States of America
Richmond, VA
Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. U.S. Grant on April 9, 1865 at
Appomattox Courthouse, VA
John Marshall's famous supreme court ruling that established the concept of Judicial Review.
Marbury v. Madison