Miscellanous
What is the name of the machine which unintentionally expanded slavery
cotton gin
What is an abolitionist?
What did the Fugitive Slave Act force Northerners to do?
Fugitive Slave Act forced Northerners to participate in the recapturing of slaves.
What was one advantage the South had in the Civil War?
military: better generals, easier train soldiers, fought a defensive war.
After which battle did Lincoln give his famous address?
Gettysburg
Name one advantage did the North have over the South?
populaion size,
industry: most of the factories
transportation: most of the railroads.
Government: longer running government.
What does it mean to secede?
withdraw formally from a country
Why did John Brown feel as if violence was necessary in the fight against slavery?
Slavery in it very nature is violent.
Bloodiest battle in the Civil War?
Gettysburg
to dedicate part of the battlefield as a cementary.
What did abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison do?
Wrote the newspaper "The Libertor"
What is total war? Give an example
warfare that uses any means necessary to accomplish it goals
Burning crops, destroying building. Going after civilians.
According to the Dred Scott decision why couldn't he sue in court.
According to the Supreme Court no African American, slave or free could be a citizen of the United States.
How did the South Strategy changed after Battle of Gettysburg?
The South will never again attempt to invade the North. The South will fight a defensive war.
Where did the Emancipation Proclamation free the slaves?
Southern states
What did abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe accomplish?
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
What are border states?
Border states are states who were slave states but remained in the Union.
What was John Brown's plan when raiding Harper's Ferry?
To capture the arsenal. Distribute weapons to slaves in the area to start slave rebellions
What are the 2 reasons why South Carolina seceded from the Union?
South Carolina seceded because of the North lack of enforcement of fugitive slave act and the election of Abraham Lincoln.
What year is Abraham Lincoln elected?
1860
What 2 things did abolitionist Frederick Douglass do?
Wrote the newspaper Manifest Destiny .
Made abolitionist speeches about his experience as a slave
What is the Second Middle Passage?
The forced sale and migration of enslaved people within the United States.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri came into Union as a slave
Maine came into the Union as a free state.
Any territory in the Louisiana Purchase above the 36 30 parallel was a free state. Below slave state
What was Robert E Lee reasoning for invading the North?
To attack Washington DC so that the Union could stop applying pressure on the South.
Why was it Important for Lincoln to win the election of 1864?
If George Mclellan won, he would of issued a peace treaty to the South, ending the war.