Vocabulary
People loyal to the Confederacy (southern states) during the Civil War
What are Confederates?
The Northern view of slavery
What is against it?
The Southern view of slavery
What is for it?
Document issued by Lincoln on January 1, 1863
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Area where Southern Democrats lived
What is the Confederacy?
Outcome of the 1860 presidential election
What is Abraham Lincoln won?
People loyal to the Union (northern states) during the Civil War
What are Unionists?
The foundation of the Northern economy
What is industry/industrial and factory-based?
The foundation of the Southern economy
What is agriculture and slave labor?
Lincoln's main goal as president
What is to preserve the Union?
Ruling of the Dredd Scott case
What is slaves were property and not citizens?
Battle of Fort Sumter
What is Confederates opened fire and started the Civil War?
The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out
What is a blockade?
The Northern view of states' rights
What is for the federal government having more power?
The Southern view of states' rights
What is for states' rights/states having more power?
The purpose of the Gettysburg Address
What is to preserve the union and honor the men who died?
Years the Civil War occurred in
What is 1861 to 1865?
Ending of the Civil War
What is General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse?
To withdraw from something, such as a nation
What is secede?
Leaders of the Union
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant?
Leaders of the Confederacy
Who are Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee?
The area where slaves were freed in by the Emancipation Proclamation
What are the rebelling Confederate States?
Area where Republicans lived
What is the Union?
Southern reaction to the 1860 presidential election
What is many states seceded?
The idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government
What are states' rights?
Disadvantages the Union had in the Civil War
What are to have to invade and hold the South and always changing military leadership?
Advantages the Confederacy had during the Civil War
What are consistent military leadership and fighting in familiar territory?
Lincoln's speech given on November 19, 1863
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The four causes of the Civil War
What is sectionalism and differing views on slavery, states' rights, and tariffs?
Bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Antietam?
A person who wanted to end slavery
What is an abolitionist?
Advantages the Union had during the Civil War
What are a larger population, more manufacturing and resources, a better railway network (to transport troops and supplies), and a better banking system?
Disadvantages the Confederacy had in the Civil War
What are the economy could not support a long war, few factories (had to import most supplies), transportation problems, and few railroads?
According to the Gettysburg Address, the best way to heal the country
What is to honor equality and the men who died for that worthy cause?
The states in between the Union and the Confederacy
What are the border states?
Bloodiest battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?