Antebellum South
What does "antebellum" mean?
Before the war
What is sectionalism?
Why did SC want to secede from the Union?
Lincoln wanted to force the South to end slavery
What term is given to people who wanted to break away from the country and form their own nation?
Secessionists
Who created total war and devastated the South through the March to Sea?
William Tecumseh Sherman
Thousands of Native Americans died during a forced relocation called ____________.
Trail of Tears
Southerners wanted native land to grow what type of crop?
Cotton
Which law created a stronger Fugitive Slave Law, allowed California to enter as a free state, and outlawed the slave trade in Washington, DC?
Compromise of 1850
The South’s strategy of refusing to sell cotton to other countries unless they joined them in the war was called ______?
King Cotton Diplomacy
Who stole a Confederate ship and provided the North with important info about the South?
Robert Smalls
Which President oversaw the Indian Removal Act?
Andrew Jackson
What term is given to people who wanted to end slavery?
Abolitionists
What law repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed citizens to vote on slavery?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What submarine was used by the Confederacy to break the Union blockade?
H.L. Hunley
Why did Abraham Lincoln win the election of 1860?
The South and border states split their votes among many candidates
Southerners believed slaves were better treated than what group of people?
Factory workers in the North
The balance between _______ and _______ states threatened the existence of slavery.
Free; Slave
Why did SC oppose a protective tariff?
After the _______ __________, African Americans were able to join the Union Army.
Emancipation Proclamation
Who was President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What type of system dominated SC society and politics during the Antebellum era?
Plantation
Who created the idea of nullification?
John C. Calhoun
Calhoun said a state could nullify a federal law by holding what type of meeting?
Special convention
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender at the end of the war?
Appomattox Court House
Who was the white man that attempted to free hundreds of slaves and failed?
John Brown