Civil War Notes - Fill in the Blank Flashcards

A set of fill-in-the-blank flashcards covering the key causes, events, and figures of the Civil War based on the provided lecture notes.

Cause #1: A loyalty to whichever section or region of the country one was from, rather than a nation as a whole, is called __.

Sectionalism

Cause #2: The North relied on __ and commerce; the South relied on plantations and agriculture.

industry

Cause #3: The invention of the __ increased the demand for slaves.

cotton gin

The abolitionist who gave speeches about the horrors of slavery was __.

Frederick Douglass

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote __ in 1852 to show the evils of slavery.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Abolitionist accounts led many to change views on slavery, but Southerners said they were all __.

lies

The belief that Americans were intended to settle all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is called __.

Manifest Destiny

The question of whether new territories would be slave or free was central to debates over the expansion of __.

slavery

The Missouri Compromise created the 36/30 line; north of the line must be free, and south of the line could be __.

slave territory

The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a/an __ state.

free

The Compromise of 1850 strengthened the __ Act.

Fugitive Slave Act

The Compromise of 1850 ended the slave trade in __.

Washington, D.C.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) repealed the Missouri Compromise and used __ to determine slavery status.

popular sovereignty

Bleeding Kansas involved clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups, including abolitionist John Brown's actions at __ Creek.

Pottawatomie

Dred Smith Decision 1857: Slaves are not citizens and could not file a __.

lawsuit

The Freeport Doctrine proposed by Stephen Douglas stated that residents of a territory could ban __ regardless of Supreme Court rulings.

slavery

Raid on Harpers Ferry (1859) led by John Brown aimed to raid a federal arsenal at __.

Harper's Ferry

Northerners did not support States’ Rights; Southerners supported states’ rights and believed they could __ from the Union.

secede

After Lincoln's election, seven southern states seceded in 1860, led by __.

South Carolina

The attack on Fort Sumter began in the harbor of __, South Carolina.

Charleston

The Union's naval blockade strategy known as the __ Plan.

Anaconda

The Battle of __ (1863) was a turning point in the Civil War.

Gettysburg

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in __ 1862, freeing slaves in Confederate states still in rebellion.

September 1862

The border states included Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and __.

Kentucky

Florida provided an estimated __ troops to the Confederacy.

15,000

Two large battles in Florida were the Battle of __ and the Battle of Natural Bridge.

Olustee

More than __ Floridians joined the Union army.

2,000

P.G.T. Beauregard led the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter against Union commander __.

Robert Anderson