Civil War Flashcards
Colors of the south and north
North:blue
South:grey
Abraham Lincoln.
As president of the united states he needed to keep the union together ( president of the north)
Ulysses s grant
Leader of the union army (man with unconditional surrender)
William t. sherman
Burned down Atlanta. Another general of the north.
Jefferson Davis
First president of the confederacy first and only president of the confederacy.
Robert e lee.
Commander and chief of all the confederate troops. “They named the steamboat after me”
General stonewall jackson.
His troops stayed against its forces like a stonewall. Killed by friendly fire.
Name calling
Noth were called yankees and south were called red necks, rebels
Slavery
The south believed in owning slaves to do the farming that ran their economy.
Societal differences
The north was urban and industrial with factories meanwhile the south was more agricultural and had many farms.
Secession
The South seceded from the union which back then in 1861 it was illegal to secede. They wanted to play by their own rules.
Expansion of slavery
They wanted to expand slavery into new territories.
Missouri compromise: it was passed in 1920 and it stated that Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free state.
Compromise of 1850: California was a free state. Ended slave tradition in Washington d.c and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves.
Fugitive slave law: said that the slave found in the north was to be sent back to the south and sold into slavery.
Kansas and Nebraska act: Allowed each new territory to vote for slavery. Both proslavery and antis.avery settlers flooded into kansas within weeks after douglas bill became law. Each side was determined to hold the majority in the territory when it came for time to vote.thousand of missurians entered kansa in march 1855 to illegaly vote in the election to slect territorial legislature.
Money problems
Thenyankees wanted more taxes for roads and canals
Dread Scott decision
Said that slaves were property not people (a slave owner had died but he was still a slave)
Political troubles
The south never wanted Lincoln to be president.the north believed that our good should not be traded with England. The south believed they survived off the back of the slaves and traded with England.
