The deadliest one-day battle in American military history, fought on September 17, 1862.

Violence broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in Kansas, leading to the nickname 'Bleeding Kansas.'

Considered a very important shipping resource during the Civil War; The Union gained control of it at the Battle of Vicksburg.

Agriculture and slavery

The Southern economy was based on agriculture and slavery.

Factories and industries

The Northern economy was based on factories and industries.

July 1-3, 1863, the bloodiest 3-day battle on American soil, with up to 10,000 Union and Confederate troops dead and another 30,000 wounded. Considered the turning point of the war.

Firing on Fort Sumter

The Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina. This was the start of the Civil War.

The Civil War was fought during these years.

General of the Union army; later became the 18th U.S. President.

Commander of the Confederate army.

The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state.

This battle affected the Civil War because the Union got full control of the Mississippi River, shutting down Confederate trade, transportation, and military/fortifications.

She was a nurse during the Civil War and started the American Red Cross.

Thomas Stonewall Jackson

He fought in the 1st Battle of Bull Run; got his nickname because he encouraged his men to stand firm like a stonewall; was shot at the Battle of Chancellorsville by his own men.

The 16th President of the United States and President of the Union during the Civil War. He was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at a memorial for Union soldiers that died at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Appomattox Courthouse

The place where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant.

He was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater.

What happened to Abraham Lincoln five days after the Civil War ended?

Which state was the first state to secede (leave) from the Union?

Where were most of the battles of the Civil War fought?

Where were most of the railroads (north or south)?

What is the name of the event where William T. Sherman {Sherman' neckties} burned down the city of Atlanta. Part of the Unions TOTAL WAR effort.

Union strategy to defeat the Confederacy by blocking all supplies.

1. California entered as a "free" state. 2. Strong fugitive slave law. 3. Slave trade banned in Washington, D.C. 4. Texas border settled. 5. Popular sovereignty in the remainder of the Mexican Cession.

All persons born in the U.S. are citizens.

States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race.

Idea that any territory could ban slavery by refusing to pass laws supporting it (Stephen A. Douglas).

Anyone who helped a runaway slave would be fined or imprisoned.

U.S. would be justified in seizing Cuba if Spain did not sell it to the U.S. in 1854. The plan was seen as pro-slavery, leading to a split in the Democratic Party.

A system that bound laborers into slavery to work off a debt to the employer.

The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.

Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole

Former slave who became an abolitionist.

A white abolitionist that raided a weapons arsenal in Harper's Ferry, VA in hopes of starting a slave uprising in the South.

Name given to African American soldiers who served in the U.S. Army on the western frontier and fought in the Indian Wars (1854-1890).

Informed and active membership in a political community

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Slave state

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A state that allows slavery.

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Free state

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A state that does NOT allow slavery.

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Issued the Emancipation Proclamation

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President Lincoln took this action after the Union won the Battle of Antietam.

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Missouri Compromise

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Under this plan Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state. No state above the 36' 30' line could be slave states.

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Tariffs

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Special taxes on goods coming into the United States.

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Abolitionists

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Americans that want to abolish, or end slavery.

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Dred Scott v Sanford

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A legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state was not entitled to his freedom.

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