Key People
Won the election of 1860 and this upset many southerners who did not support his willingness to stop the spread of slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Union created a barricade created to stop all ships from transporting goods. The intent was to stop the south from selling goods like cotton.
What is the Union Blockade?
This practice of owning people as property was a major cause of conflict between the North and South.
What is Slavery?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Signed by Abraham Lincoln declaring that all enslaved people in southern states would be free on January 1, 1863 if southern states did not return to the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A tax that is imposed on goods brought into one country from another
What is a tariff?
Union General that led two campaigns to destroy the south and their capability to fight
Who is General William T. Sherman?
A prisoner of war camp where Union soldiers captured by southerners were held. The conditions in this camp were extremely poor causing many prisoners to die.
What is Andersonville?
The belief that individual states had the power to make their own laws, especially about slavery, even if the federal government disagreed.
What is States' Rights?
Responsible for capturing the city or Atlanta and destroying most of south Georgia.
Who is General William T. Sherman?
What is the Atlanta Campaign?
This political idea claimed that a state could cancel or ignore a federal law it didn’t agree with.
What is Nullification?
Slave that lost his court case which declared slaves were property and not citizens.
Who is Dred Scott?
What is Sherman's March to Sea?
Southern states did this when they chose to leave the Union before the Civil War began.