Lessons 1 and 2
The right of people to create their government.
What is popular sovereignty?
The winner of the 1860 presidential election.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This battle's outcome thrilled the South and shocked the North.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
This man is credited for freeing the slaves.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
To wage war on not just an enemy but everything that supports that enemy.
Missouri would be admitted as a slave state and Maine would be admitted as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The southern state was the first to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
The bloodiest battle of the war.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Lincoln believed this document kept him from freeing the slaves.
What is the Constitution?
April 9, 1865.
What is the day the Civil War ended?
The Dred Scott case effectively denied slaves this right.
The right to sue in U.S. courts.
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri.
This general's army clashed with Robert E. Lee's troops in the Battle of Antietam.
Who is George McClellan?
Lincoln issued this statement on January 1, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This general offered the South very generous terms of surrender.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The South argued that this law would infringe on their property rights.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The site of the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
How the South lost a crucial supply line.
What was the capture of the Mississippi River?
Slaves will only be freed in this territory during the war.
What is the South?
Tearing up rail lines, looting towns, etc.
What are examples of total war?
This law was passed in the Compromise of 1850 to satisfy the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Superior manpower, control of most naval yards, etc.
What are advantages of the Union?
By capturing these two cities, the Mississippi River was now under Union control. (only need 1)
What are New Orleans and Memphis?
The failed Pickett's Charge resulted in a Confederate defeat at this battle.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
After the war, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by this man.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?