Growing National
Divisions
Divisions
This person led a raid on a federal armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, intending to provoke a slave revolt.
John Brown
In 1860 Republican ________ ________ won the presidential election.
Abraham Lincoln
By the end of 1861, some 25,000 Texans were in
The Confederate Army
Union forces also planned to capture _____________, the capital of the Confederacy.
Richmond, Virginia
In July 1861 a Union army marched south to capture Richmond. Confederate forces stopped the advance at the
First Battle of Bull Run
The argument that state power was greater than federal power.
states’ rights
The delegates elected a president, __________ ______ of Mississippi, and other officials to run the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
Terry’s Texas Rangers, a cavalry unit organized by________________, fought in battles throughout the Civil War.
B. F. Terry
Because the North had more ___________, it could move troops and supplies more easily.
Railroads
Union general ________ gained the upper hand in April 1862 in the Battle of Shiloh.
Ulysses S. Grant
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 antislavery novel
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
There representatives from the seceding states formed a government called the
The Confederacy or the Confederate States of America
The Confederate attack on _____________ in April 1861 marked the beginning of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
Southern leaders tried to gain foreign support, particularly from Great Britain, through the use of _______________. The Confederacy withheld cotton shipments to British textile mills, hoping to force Britain to offer help.
Cotton Diplomacy
In late September 1862 General Robert E. Lee’s army clashed with a Union force in Maryland.___________________ was an important Union victory.
The Battle of Antietam
Many northern members of the Whig Party were angry because this violated the ________________, which prohibited slavery north of the 36°30' N line.
1820 Missouri Compromise
formally withdraw
Secede
Ross’s Texas Brigade, headed by _____________________ fought in Georgia, Mississippi,and Tennessee.
Lawrence “Sul” Ross
The Union used a _________________ to cut off southern seaports and prevent the Confederacy from importing war supplies.
Naval Blockade
ships heavily armored with armored plates.
Ironclads
In 1857 the U.S. Supreme Court dealt antislavery forces a blow what?
Dred Scott decision
When did Texas become the seventh state to secede from the United States.
March 2, 1861
In February 1861 a force led by ______________________ surrounded the U.S. commander’s headquarters in San Antonio.
Ben McCulloch
The naval blockade eventually extended from Virginia to Florida on the Atlantic coast and from Florida to the _____________
Atlantic/Texas Gulf Coast
In late September 1862 Confederate _______________________’s army clashed with a Union force in Maryland.
Robert E. Lee
This allowed the Kansas and Nebraska Territories
to decide whether to be free or slave states.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
People who wanted to stay in the Union and work out differences over slavery.
Unionists
Hood’s Texas Brigade, under the command of ______________________, became a lead unit in the Army of Northern Virginia.
John Bell Hood
By the end of 1861, _____________ of Texans serving in the Confederate army were in the cavalry.
Two Thirds
Union general Ulysses S. Grant gained the upper hand in April 1862 in the
Battle of Shiloh
A _______ ______ allowed slavery
Slave State
Houston, who had won the governor’s election in 1859, urged Texans to stay in
The Union
units of around 1,000 soldiers
Regiment
regions, of war
Theater
______________ was a turning point—Lee was on the defensive for the rest of the war.
The Battle of Gettysburg