Civil War Flashcards
Popular sovereignty
The people get to vote on a pice of land to become a state
Reasons why the Civil War occurred
Conflict over slavery, secession of Southern states, firing on fort Sumter
Fort Sumter
April 12, 1861 southern Carolina led by Commander Anderson starts the Civil War
Secede
To leave
The free soil party
No expansion of slavery
Economic differences between the north and the south
North= industry 85% South= agricultural 
the 11 confederate states of America
Virginia, Florida, Louisiana, N. Carolina, Alabama, Texas, S. Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee.
List 10 of the United States
Minnesota, Main, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Iowa, Vermont, New Jersey, Oregon, Kansas
List five of the border states
Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware
List for averages the North had at the beginning of the war
Population 2 million people, Navy, surplus food, Manufacturing
It is for vanishes that the South had at the beginning of the war
Better generals, more experience with guns, lived in the country, the home field advantage
King cotton
It help the south went over the favor of England and France
Reason the north was fighting the war
Preserve the union, get rid of slavery, democracy
Reason the south was fighting the war
States rights, slavery, liberty