2020 USHI Unit 3

People who wanted to end slavery

• Abolitionist

• Underground Railroad

• Sectional Conflict

• Border States

a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada

• Underground Railroad

• Sectional Conflict

• Border States

• 54th Massachusetts

The tension between the north and south between 1840 and 1861 major causes were nullification crisis, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott v. Sanford, Election of Lincoln (1860)

• Underground Railroad

• Sectional Conflict

• Border States

• 54th Massachusetts

States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede.

• Underground Railroad

• Sectional Conflict

• Border States

• 54th Massachusetts

African American Company responsible for leading an attack on Ft. Wagner, located in SC.

• Underground Railroad

• Sectional Conflict

• Border States

• 54th Massachusetts

Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south

• Anaconda Plan

• Fort Sumter

• Election of 1860

• March to the Sea

First battle of the Civil War

• Anaconda Plan

• Fort Sumter

• Election of 1860

• March to the Sea

the democratic party split, Lincoln was elected president, SC secedes from the Union

• Anaconda Plan

• Fort Sumter

• Election of 1860

• March to the Sea

Sherman's march from Atlanta, Georgia, to Savannah, Georgia which cut off confederate supplies received by the sea. They wanted to destroy the Southern economy and morale, leading to Southern surrender.

• Anaconda Plan

• Fort Sumter

• Election of 1860

• March to the Sea

all-out war that affects civilians at home as well as soldiers in combat

• Total War Strategy

• Homestead Act

• Morrill Land Grant

• Exodusters