Civial War Flashcards
Missouri wanted to become a slave state, if Missouri did become a slave state there would be more slave states than free states. To compromise Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was added as a free state. The government also established a border line that slavery could not cross
Missouri Compromise
To leave the United States
Secede
Differences between the north and south prior to the civil war
Sectionalism
Kansas and Nebraska were going to decide on slavery using popular sovereignty. Groups of pro-slavery and abolitionist rushed to that area to try and sway voters. This violated the Missouri compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act
California and Utah would become free States
Compromise of 1850
Allowing states to vote on an issue
Popular sovereignty
A crop that is in demand and creates a lot of profit. Cotton, prior to the Civil War
CASH CROP
John brown was an abolitionist who tried to lead a slave to rebellion at Harpers Ferry
John Browns Raid
Confederate
South
Union
North
Union plan to cut the south in half, cut of confederate supply, restrict trade, and take the Mississippi River
Anaconda Plan
Made by pres Lincoln freed the slaves in the states and territories not under union control
Emancipation Proclamation
Union general who burned most of Georgia
Sherman’s March to the sea
A farmhouse where the confederacy surrendered to the north
Appomattox Court House
A plan for rebuilding the south after the civil war
Reconstruction