Civil war study guide

Define Abolition movement

Movement to end/get rid of anything slavery

Missouri Compromise

Missouri wanted to enter as a slave state, but it needed a free state to enter, which was Maine

It balanced the power in Congress between slave and free states

The major outcome was that Missouri became a slave state while Maine became a free state

Compromise of 1850

The Compromise of 1850 was a deal to stop the North and South from fighting about slavery.

It solved (for a short time) the argument over slavery in the new land the U.S. got after the Mexican-American War.

Fugitive slave act

A law that made people in the North return escaped slaves to their owners or face punishment.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

t gave settlers the power to vote about slavery

Dred Scott

A slave whose Supreme Court case said slaves weren’t citizens and Congress couldn’t stop slavery in new territories, making North-South tensions worse.

Election of 1860

Made Abraham Lincoln president, angered the South because he opposed the spread of slavery, and triggered Southern states to start seceding, leading to the Civil War.

Harriet Tubman

Risked her life to help hundreds of enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad 

she fought slavery by refusing to stay enslaved and freeing others.

Final events that led to the southern states seceding

Because Lincoln’s election convinced them he would limit slavery, threatening their way of life and prompting them to leave the Union.

What event “started” the Civil War

The first shots at Fort Sumter

What was the Anaconda Plan

(1) blockade Southern ports,

(2) take control of the Mississippi River,

(3) attack the South from multiple directions

Define Sectionalism

s putting your region’s needs above the nation’s, which can cause conflict between areas

Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stow

Exposed the cruelty of slavery and helped turn public opinion in the North against it

what is significant about the battle of Antietam

The bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history, it gave President Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

What was the significance of the battle of Gettysburg

The turning point of the Civil War, halted the Confederate advance into the North a

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