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