Growing National
Divisions
Divisions
Who lead a raid on a federal Amory in Harper's Fairy, Virgina
John Brown
In 1860 republican blank won the presidential election
Abraham Lincoln
By the end of 1861 sum of 25,000 Texans were in blank
The Confederate Army
This would separate the important food-producing areas of Arkansas, Texas, and most of Louisiana from other southern states. Union forces also planned to capture blank the capital of the Confederacy.
Richmond, Virginia
The major battles of the war took place east of the Mississippi River. In July 1861 a Union army marched south to capture Richmond. Confederate forces stopped the advance at the blank.
First Battle of Bull Run
Under blank argument, state power was greater than federal
states’ rights
Jefferson Davis
Terry Texas rangers, a cavalry unit organized by blank, fourth thru battles of the civil war
B. F. Terry
Because the North had more blank it could move troops and supplies more easily
Railroads
Union
general blank gained the upper hand in April 1862 in the Battle of Shiloh.
Ulysses S. Grant
Blank greatly increase support for the abolition movement
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
there representatives from there seceding states formed a government called blank
The Confederacy
The Confederate attack on blank 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 blank
Cotton Diplomacy
blank was an important Union victory.
The Battle of Antietam
Many norther members of the Whig Party were angry because this violated the 1820 blank
1820 Missouri Compromise
To formally withdraw from the union
Secede
Texas Brigade, headed by blank fought in Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
Lawrence “Sul” Ross
The Union used a blank to cut off southern seaports and prevent the Confederacy from importing war supplies
Naval Blockade
Grant began the six-week Siege of Vicksburg, supported by a fleet of blank ships heavily armored with armored plates.
Ironclads
In 1857 the US supreme court delt anti slavery forces a blow with the blank
Dred Scott decision
On blank Texas became the 7th state to secede
March 2, 1861
In February 1861 a force led by blank surrounded the U.S. commander’s headquarters in San Antonio. U.S. Army general David E. Twiggs quickly surrendered all federal property in Texas
Ben McCulloch
The blockade eventually extended from Virginia to Florida on the blank coast and from Florida to the southern tip of blank
Atlantic/Texas Gulf Coast
In late September 1862 General blank army clashed with a Union force in Maryland.
Robert E. Lee
In 1854 Congress passed the blank
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This angered the blank people wanted to stay to work out slavery
Unionists
Hood’s Texas Brigade, under the command of blank became a lead unit in the Army of Northern Virginia.
John Bell Hood
By the end of 1861, blank 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 blank.
Battle of Shiloh
What do all these states have in common Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia they are all blank
Slave State
Hustion, who had won the governments election in 1859, urged Texans to stay in the blank
The Union
Texans usually joined blank units of around 1,000 soldiers—from their hometowns or counties
Regiment
Texans fought in all three blank
Theater
blank was a turning point—Lee was on the defensive for the rest of the war.
The Battle of Gettysburg