Sectionalism Begins
This invention by Eli Whitney made cotton production extremely profitable and expanded slavery.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This 1860 election of this president triggered Southern secession.
What is the Election of Abraham Lincoln?
The Confederate States of America formed after this action by Southern states.
What is Secession?
The North had more of these in their cities.
What are Factories/Industry/Manufacturing?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment.
This proposal tried to ban slavery in land gained from Mexico but failed in Congress.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This political party formed in the 1850s to oppose the expansion of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
What is "Total War"?
The Union had a much larger amount of this urban resource.
What is population/manpower?
This amendment guaranteed voting rights regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This 1850 law required citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
These two 1863 battles in Pennsylvania and along the Mississippi River were the turning points of the war.
What are the Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
The Union navy used this plan to cut off Southern trade?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Southern Democrats who regained political control at the end of Reconstruction.
Who are Redeemers?
This system allowed settlers to vote on whether slavery would exist in a territory.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This battle was considered one of the bloodiest, and necessary for the South to be recognized by Britain and France.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
These riots that broke out in New York City were due to opposition of this.
What is a draft/conscription?
These Southern laws attempted to control the lives of freed people.
What are the Black Codes?
Violence that erupted, named after the territory it occurred after being granted popular sovereignty.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
In this 1858 debate, Stephen Douglas argued that territories could effectively ignore the Dred Scott decision.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
This term referred to Southern slaves that were being freed by Union armies before the Emancipation Proclamation.
What/Who are Contraband?
This Confederate city experienced bread riots due to shortages and inflation.
What/Where is Richmond?
This disputed election involved Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden.
What is the Election of 1876?