The Civil War Flashcards
(39 cards)
What directly caused the secession of the first seven states?
Lincoln’s Election
What was the main objective of the Anaconda plan?
(Hint: Anaconda is a Snake)
To Block Southern ports
Why was it a good idea for the Union to block off Southern ports?
To stop trade
(To stop Europe from getting income and materials)
What (5) advantages did the North have over the South?
- Population
- Manufacting
- Food
- More railroads
- A Navy
What (2) tactics did the South use to combat the North?
(What advantages did the South have over the North?)
- Home-Field Advantage
- Gifted Military Commanders
Why was the Emancipation Proclamation relevent to the Civil war?
Changed the civil war to solely be about slavery
(To keep Britian and Frace out of it-who were more powerful)
What did the Emancipation Proclamation really do?
It didn’t really free any slaves
(Lincoln was not the president of the confederate states)
What were the Long term causes (5) of the civil war?
- Sectionalism
- Slavery
- Westward expansion
- The breakdown of Comprimise
- Differences in Constitutional Interpertation: States Rights
What was the main difference between the treatment of American Slaves and English factory workers?
The slaves were fed, clothed, and housed
(Slave owners glorified this)
Define Sectionalism
Citizens felt more loyalty towards locals then America as a whole
Define Abolishonists
The citizens who wanted to end slavery
Define Fedrick Douglass
Freed man who wrote speeches and books about his experience with slavery
Define The Missouri Comprimise
1820
No slavery above the southern boundary of Missouri (36°30′ parallel)
- Missouri was a slave state
- Maine was a free state
Define The Comprimise of 1850
- Declared California as a free state
- The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- Slave sale is banned in Washington D.C.
Define Bloody Kansas
(1855-1856)
Slavery and Anti-Slavery State Governments fight over the outcome of Kansas
(So bloody, the Army had to stop them)
Define The Republican Party
Party who opposed the expansion of slavery to any new terriotories
Define Dred Scott Desision
Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney declares Slaves as property and not citizens and do not have a right to sue
Define Dred Scott
Enslaved man whose owner brought him from a slave state (Missouri) to a free state (Illinous) and denied him freedom
* He sued
Define John Brown’s Raid
He tried to get abolishonists to take down the army and take their weapons
* No Slaves Joined
* He was hanged
Define Abraham Lincoln
- First Republican President
- First not rich President
Define Secession
Formal Withdrawl of a political entity
Define Jefferson Davis
The President of The Confederate States of America
Define The Confederate States of America
Pro-Slavery States nation
* The USA was split in two
* The South were the CSA
Define Fort Sumter
Where the battle of Fort Sumter took place and sparked the start of the Civil War