Civil War

Question 1

Political Causes

Answer 1

Missouri Compromise, Mexican-American War, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, and Lincoln’s Election.

Question 2

Economic Causes

Answer 2

King Cotton, differences between North and South, and expansion to the West.

Question 3

Social Causes

Answer 3

Dred Scott case, Nat Turner, John Brown, southern society, and the West

Question 4

Important Battles

Answer 4

Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Monitor vs. Merrimack, Antietam, Gettysburg, Sherman’s March to Sea, and Surrender at Appomattox.

Question 5

Lincoln’s Speeches

Answer 5

Emancipation Proclamation: slaves (behind enemy lines) were free. The impact was that some African Americans joined the war on the North’s side and made the South weaker.
Gettysburg Address: Lincoln made the commemoration to the dead that fought in the battle and said that he would make the US a Union again. Impact was that he had more people join his efforts in the war

Question 6

Causes of Civil War

Answer 6

Slavery: John Brown was a radical that fought the South for the freedom of slaves, he was also hung for treason when he lost, and the public response was that he was either a murderer or as the North did, expressed admiration for him or the cause.
Sectionalism: the north dominate the south in every aspect, except slavery and cotton
States Rights: