Vocabulary
What is the name for the system where people can be bought and sold and forced to work?
What is slavery
Which region supported state’s rights and relied on cash crops like cotton and tobacco?
What is the South
What compromise added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and set the Compromise of 1820 line to settle future debates?
What is the Missouri Compromise
In which 1858 speech did Lincoln state that the U.S. couldn't survive half slave and half free?
What is House Divided
Name 2 Union strengths going into the Civil War
What are larger population, more factories/manufacturing, more farms/food, better infrastructure transportation, more wealth (any two)
What symbolic boundary separated free states from slave states?
What is the Mason-Dixon Line
Which region was more urban, relied on manufacturing and was part of the abolition movement?
What act allowed Utah and New Mexico to vote on slavery, banned the slave trade in Washington D.C., and included the Fugitive Slave Act?
What is the Compromise of 1850
In which speech given in 1860 did Lincoln argue that he had no intention of ending slavery in states that already had it and his goal was to preserve the Union?
Which battle was significant because it was enough of a victory for Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam
What is the process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions
What is emancipation
What is a collection of 11 states that seceded from the United States in 1860 and believed in letting a state decide if it wanted slavery called?
What is the Confederacy (Confederate States of America will also be accepted)
What novel revealed the injustice of slavery and changed Northern views?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
In which 1863 presidential order did Lincoln free slaves in Confederate areas?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
Which Union plan cut off the South from trade and split the Confederacy?
What is the Anaconda Plan
What is the term for a state leaving a larger political body?
What is secession
The term that signifies cotton’s major economic and political role in the South; 60% of exports
What is "King Cotton"
Which Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were seen as property and therefore were not citizens with rights
What is the Dred Scott decision (or what is Dred Scott)
In which speech did Lincoln say Americans should honor those who fell in the battle and continue the war until it has been won and that the nation will experience a “new birth of freedom” for all?
What is the Gettysburg Address
Which battle gave the Union control of movement of the Mississippi River?
What is the Siege (Battle) of Vicksburg
What is the idea that government is created by and subject to the will of the people
What is Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri
What event led to the immediate secession of South Carolina in 1860?
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln (or what is the election of Lincoln)
In which speech, given in 1865, did Lincoln argue for reunification and peace between North and South
What is Second Inaugural Address
Where did the Confederacy surrender, and why were the terms generous?
What is Appomattox; to encourage reunification and peace