SS Civil War review Flashcards

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What did the Compromise of 1850 state?

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Split the Mexican Cession into separate territories
Texas gives up claim to parts of New Mexico for $10 million
California enters US as free state
Slave trade ends in Washington DC
Fugitive Slave Act (angered abolitionists the most)

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What did the Fugitive Slave Act require people to do?

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Required all citizens to capture and return runaway slaves to the South
Made abolitionists angry

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What was decided with the Kansas-Nebraska Act? Why was this upsetting to some people?

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Stephan Douglas proposed law
Wanted people to be able to vote for slavery or free in territories
This was called popular sovereignty
- people upset because areas were already suppose to be free under Missouri Compromise

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What happened during Bleeding Kansas?

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Fighting between anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups

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What impact did the Dred Scott Decision have on the US?

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Slaves were property, not citizens and could not sue for their freedom
Slavery was allowed everywhere, no longer free states

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How did the Lincoln-Douglas debates help Abraham Lincoln gain popularity?

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What Lincoln said was published in newspapers and pamphlets and sent around to different Northern States.
Lincoln stated the country can not survive half free half slave

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Why were people frightened by John Brown’s Raid?

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Southern states were worried the North wanted to destroy their way of life

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Why was Abraham Lincoln able to win the election of 1860?

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The Southern states split their votes between three different candidates

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What did Southern states decide as a result of the election of 1860? Why?

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Southern states seceded and formed the Confederate states of America
Worried Lincoln would abolish slavery even though he never said he would
Lincoln point of view was for slavery to not spread to the west but stay where it already was

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List the border states.

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Border states remained part of the Union even though they had slavery
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia

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Who became President of the Confederate States?

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Jefferson Davis

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What was the goal of the Confederacy during the Civil War?

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Keep their way of life and maintain independence

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What was the goal of the Union during the Civil War?

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Preserve the Union, keep the country together

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Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of the Union and the Confederacy.

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Union Confederacy
Industrialized- can make what they need Home field advantage- know the land
More money Best military generals
More people Fighting for their way of life
Navy

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What event caused the outbreak of the Civil War?

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Confederate army fired on Fort Sumter

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16
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What were the parts of the Anaconda Plan?

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Blockade
Capture the Mississippi River to cut the South in half
Capture Richmond, VA, the capital

17
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Who were the major military leaders of the Union and Confederacy?

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Union: Confederacy:
Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee
William Tecumseh Sherman Stonewall Jackson
George Custer George Pickett
One strategy the North was to cut off the South from trade by using a blockade

18
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What is the significance of the Battle of Gettysburg?

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Turning point of the war

19
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

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slaves in states that had seceded were free

20
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What is Total War?

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Sherman’s policy of destroying everything in order to make the Confederacy surrender
Purpose to show the South what would happen if they did not surrender

21
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Why was the Union able to win the Civil War?

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Total War- everything is destroyed
Union had more people and more resources

22
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When and where did the Civil War end?

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April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia - Lee surrenders to Grant

23
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What impact did the Civil War have on the Southern states?

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Confederate states rejoin the Union
Have to rebuild their communities and find a way to live without slaves