Civil War

What are the long-term effects of the Civil War?

The breakdown of compromise, slavery, abolitionism, sectionalism, and westward expansion

Why was the Battle of Vicksburg significant?

The South was able to block the Mississippi River

What was the battle of Fort Sumter?

The South attacked a Northern military base and began the Civil War

Who was the Confederacy’s general?

Robert E. Lee

Who was the Union’s general?

Ulysses Grant

What compromise failed to ban slavery because African Americans weren’t considered U.S. citizens?

The Dred Scott Case

What compromise kept balance between free and slave states?

Missouri Compromise

Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed citizens to vote for whether they wanted slavery using popular soveirgnty

Freeport Doctorine

Drafted by Stephen Douglas and allowed states to ban slavery.

Where is Fort Sumter?

South Carolina

The Compromise of 1850

States like California were admitted back into the Union as free states, and territories were made into states

The Fugitive Slave Act

Allowed slaves who’d escaped to be captured and returned