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Civil War
North VS South
Question | Answer |
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Slavery | divided the nation |
The North was mainly | urban society in which people held jobs in cities. |
The South was | agricultural society. |
Southerners lived | on farms and plantations. |
The North was a | manufacturing region. |
Northerners favored | tariffs. |
Southerners opposed tariffs that would cause | prices of manufactured goods to increase. |
Planters were concerned that Great Britain might | stop buying cotton from the South. |
Southerners believed that | they had the power to declare any national law illegal. |
Northerners believed that | the national government’s power was supreme over that of the states. |
Southerners felt that the abolition of slavery would | destroy their region’s economy. |
Northerners believed that slavery should be abolished | for moral reasons. |
Missouri Compromise (1820): | Missouri entered the Union as a slave state; Maine entered the Union as a free state. |
Compromise of l850: | California entered the Union as a free state. Southwest territories would decide the slavery issue for themselves. |
Kansas-Nebraska Act: | People in each state would decide the slavery issue (“popular sovereignty”). |
popular sovereignty | People decide the issue of slavery by way of a vote. |
Following Lincoln’s election, | the southern states seceded from the Union. |
Lincoln and many Northerners believed that | the United States was one nation that could not be separated or divided. |
Most Southerners believed that the states had freely joined the union and could | freely leave it. |
Border states (slave states) | Slave states that did NOT fight against the Union. |
Abraham Lincoln | Was president of the United States who opposed the spread of slavery. |
The Emancipation Proclamation | was Lincoln's speech that freed the slaves. |
The Gettysburg Address said | the Civil War was to preserve a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” |
Jefferson Davis | was president of the Confederate States of America |
Ulysses S. Grant | was general of the Union army that defeated Lee |
Robert E. Lee | was leader of the Army of Northern Virginia who was offered command of the Union forces, but chose not to fight against Virginia |
Lee Urged Southerners to accept defeat at the end of the war | when some wanted to fight on |
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson | Was a skilled Confederate general from Virginia |
Frederick Douglass | Was an enslaved African American who escaped to the North and became an abolitionist |
The firing on Fort Sumter, S.C., | began the war. |
The first Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) was | the first major battle. |
The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation made “freeing the slaves” | the new focus of the war. |
Many freed African Americans | joined the Union army. |
The Battle of Vicksburg | allowed the North to control the Mississippi River. |
The Battle of Gettysburg was | the turning point of the war; |
Lee’s surrender to Grant at | Appomattox Court House in 1865 ended the war. |
The Southern capital city. | Richmond |
As the war went on, Southern troops became | increasingly younger and more poorly equipped and clothed. |
Much of the South was devastated at the end of the war | (e.g., burning of Atlanta and Richmond). |
The major killer of the war. | Disease |
The collapse of the Confederacy made | Confederate money worthless. |
African American soldiers were discriminated against and served | in segregated units under the command of white officers. |
Large cities, heavy manufacturing, large population. | urban |
Farms & Plantations, agricultural, small population. | rural |
Nickname of the Union soldiers | yankees |
Nickname of the Confederate soldiers | rebels |
The Northern capital city. | Washington, D.C. |