Vocab
a person who wants to end the institution of slavery
Abolitionist
A person running away to avoid being caught
Fugitive
What party formed due to the controversy over the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican
What roles did women play in the Civil War (name at least 2)
munitions workers
nurses
soldiers
aid organizers
What is considered to be the bloodiest single day throughout the Civil War?
The Battle of Antietam
What is sectionalism?
When loyalty to an area defined by geography or region is more important than loyalty to the whole (U.S.)
Network of people, both whites and free blacks, who helped runaways from slaveholding states travel to states in the North and Canada where slavery was illegal
Underground Railroad
What was the last event that sparked South Carolina to secede from the Union?
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Who won the Presidential election of 1864?
Abraham Lincoln
What tactic did Sherman use during his March to the Sea campaign
Total War
decision that denied the legality of black citizenship in America and upheld slavery in U.S. territories
Dred Scott decision
Who won the series of debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois Senate race?
Stephen A. Douglas (Lincoln won national recognition)
How did Democrats like George B. McClellan believe they should end the Civil War?
Peace negotiations with the Confederacy
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?
Appomattox Court House
declared that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
Emancipation Proclamation
a speech delivered in 1863 by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the National Cemetery
Gettysburg Address
For California to be admitted as a free state, what did the North have to agree to?
The Fugitive Slave Act
Name two advantages the South had to begin the Civil War
Better military officers
Could defend their home turf
13th Amendment
Stated each territory would decide for itself whether or not to permit slavery (popular sovereignty); repealed the Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
effort by abolitionist to initiate a slave revolt by taking over the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
John Brown's Raid
What started the political arguments that led to the Civil War?
Should slavery exist in the new Western states
Name at least 3 advantages the North had when beginning the Civil War
Manufacturing
More edible crops
controlled sea/railways
bigger population
What two battles were seen as a turning point for the Union during the Civil War
Battle of Vicksburg and Gettysburg