Causes
This compromise attempted to calm the slavery crisis through giving the South a strict fugitive slave law in exchange for a slavery-free capital
The Compromise of 1850
This battle at a South Carolina military base was the first conflict of the war
The Battle of Fort Sumter
Lincoln's reaction to the NYC riots
Suspension of habeas corpus
The end of the war caused this man to shoot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre
John Wilkes Booth
After Lincoln died in office, this man became the acting President of the United States
Andrew Johnson
This popular anti-slavery party developed in the 1850s in the Northern states
Republican Party
This man was a skillful general who betrayed the Union to fight for the Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
The side in the war with the greater industrial advantage
The Union
The lack of Confederate statesmen in Congress allowed Republicans to do this
Pass laws and programs that the South would normally oppose
This type of politician wished to impeach Andrew Johnson for being obstructive to their Reconstruction plans
Radical Republicans
This conflict caused by popular sovereignty flooded a state with abolitionists and slavery advocates
Bleeding Kansas
This bloody battle was considered the South's "last hope", happened in Maryland in 1863
The Battle of Antietam
This document freed all slaves in the Confederate States
The Emancipation Proclamation
This general ran against President Lincoln in 1864 by advocating to end the war through a treaty
George McClellan
These Acts empowered the President to enforce the Amendments in the South that gave African-Americans voting rights
The Force Acts
The Supreme Court ruled this in Dred Scott v. Sanford
The Union attempted to cut the Confederacy and its trade in half in this area
The Mississippi River
Northerners who wished for a treaty with the South, rather than a complete surrender, were often called _____.
Copperheads
The 13th Amendment
Andrew Johnson was this many votes short of being removed from office after impeachment
One
Lincoln's victory in the 1860 Election caused this state to secede first
South Carolina
The Battle of Appomattox was notable because it was where _____
The Treaty of Appomattox was signed and the war ended.
This incident almost brought Britain into the war on the side of the CSA
The Trent Affair
The Confederate economy was severely hampered by this
The Blockade
OR
The South's overdependence on agriculture
This bill would have forced every rejoining Confederate state to take the Ironclad Oath
Wade-Davis Bill