Civil War and Reconstruction

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

• Tariffs

• Sectionalism

• Slavery

• States Rights

the condition of being owned by another person and being made to work without wages

• States Rights

• Sectionalism

• Slavery

• Tariffs

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

• States Rights

• Tariffs

• Slavery

• Sectionalism

A tax on imported goods

• Slavery

• States Rights

• Sectionalism

• Tariffs

Tension between the North and the South was due to: slavery, sectionalism states' rights, tariffs

Inspired South Carolina to secede because they thought the new President was too anti-slavery

• Election of 1860

• Battle of Ft Sumter

• John Wilkes Booth

• Texas

First battle of the American Civil War

• Battle at Antietam

• Battle of Ft. Sumter

• Battle of Shiloh

• Appomattox Courthouse

Civil War battle fought in Maryland, the single bloodiest day in U.S. military history, Lee's march North was stopped

• Battle of Ft. Sumter

• Battle of Manasas

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Antietam

The bloodiest overall battle of the Civil War; many historians claim that the Southern defeat in this battle was the turning point of the war and the beginning of the end for the Confederacy.

• Battle of Gonzalez

• Battle of Shiloh

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Gettysburg

Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free

• Declaration of Independence

• Emancipation Proclamation

• The Constitution

• The Gettysburg Address