SECTIONALISM & COMPROMISES
What term describes loyalty to one’s region over the nation?
Sectionalism
What does secession mean?
A state legally separating from its country.
Who was President of the Union during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What river was crucial to dividing the Confederacy?
Mississippi River
Which amendment ended slavery?
13th Amendment
What was the foundational cause of division between North and South?
Slavery
What event caused Southern states to panic and begin seceding?
Election of 1860
Who was President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River?
Vicksburg
Which amendment granted citizenship and equal protection?
14th Amendment
What compromise admitted California as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act?
Compromise of 1850
What was the name of the government formed by the seceded Southern states?
Confederate States of America
What did Lincoln believe about secession?
It was illegal / No state could lawfully leave the Union.
What battle stopped Confederate invasion of the North?
Gettysburg
Which amendment granted voting rights to Black men?
15th Amendment
What system allowed territories to vote on slavery and led to violence in Kansas?
Popular Sovereignty
Besides slavery, name one contributing factor to the Civil War.
Sectionalism / States’ Rights / Economic Differences / Election of 1860
What institution did Jefferson Davis defend as a right of Southern states?
Slavery
Why was Gettysburg considered a turning point?
It stopped the South from invading the North and weakened the Confederacy.
What government agency helped formerly enslaved people with food, schools, and jobs?
Freedmen’s Bureau
What anger many Northerners due to requiring them to help capture and return escaped enslaved people?
The Fugitive Slave Act
Why did Southern states justify secession?
They believed they were oppressed and had the right to leave the Union.
What was Lincoln’s main goal at the start of the war?
Preserve the Union
How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the focus of the war?
It shifted the war from preserving the Union to freeing enslaved people.
Name one way Southern states resisted Reconstruction.
Black Codes / Jim Crow Laws / Ku Klux Klan / Literacy tests / Poll taxes