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Kansas Nebraska act
What abolished the Missouri Compromise?
Allowed states citizens to decide if slavery should exist there
How did the Kansas Nebraska act abolish the Missouri Compromise?
Kansas and Nebraska act
What caused many abolitionists and slave holders to go to Kansas and Nebraska?
They wanted to swing the vote for making the states slave or free states
Why did the Kansas Nebraska act cause abolitionists and slave holders to go to Kansas and Nebraska?
A violent fighting resulting from the Kansas and Nebraska act
What was bleeding Kansas?
Abolitionists and slave holders
Who was the bleeding Kansas between?
Abolitionist leader
Who was John Brown?
John Brown
Who led Harpers Ferry?
A massive slave revolt
What was Harpers Ferry?
One of 3 southern nominees for president
Who was Stephen Douglass?
They were divided between 3 nominees
What caused the south to essentially loose the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Who did the north elect as president?
Large population
Give one Union Strength
Train Tracks
Give one Union strength
22 million
Union populous
21,000 miles
How many miles of train tracks did the Union have?
90%
What percent of the nations manufacturing did the north have?
large amount of nations manufacturing
Union strength
swinging the vote
What is popular sovereignty?
Military leadership
Confederate strengths
Only had to play defense
Confederate strength
Had to play offense
Union Weakness
military leadership
Union Weakness
They weren’t being aggressive
Why was Lincoln unhappy with the Unions military leadership?
small population
Confederate weakness
transportation
confederate weakness
lack of food
confederate weakness
Anaconda plan
What was the norths plan to winning the war?
Winning the war would be difficult
What did Bull Run make the north realize?
Confederacy
Who won the battle of bull run?
McClellan
Who did Lincoln fire?
He wasn’t aggressive
Why did Lincoln fire McClellan?
Battle of Antietam
What was a bloody battle?
Ironclad ships
What was a technological improvement as a result of the war?
Telegraph
What was a technological improvement as a result of the war?
Railroads
What was a technological improvement as a result of the war?
Helping patients in order of how badly they need help
What is triage?
Ambulence
What medicinal advancement as made as a result of the war?
Hospitals on the battlefield
What medicinal advancement as made as a result of the war?
Triage
What medicinal advancement as made as a result of the war?
Weaken the souths economy
What was a goal of the Emancipation Proclamation?
End slavery in the confederate states
What was a goal of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Union
North
Confederacy
South
Battle of Gettysburg
Last battle on Union land
Union
Who won the Battle of Gettysburg?
Declaration of Independence
What did Lincoln quote of in the Gettysburg address?
To inspire hope
Why did Lincoln quote the Declaration of Independence of in the Gettysburg address?
It caused them to fight for their freedom
What effect did the Emancipation Proclamation have on Union slaves?
First black regiment
What was the Massachusetts 54th?
Fort Wagner
In what battle did the Mass. 54th fight in?
Commander of entire Union army
What title was given to Ulysses S. Grant?
George Washington
Who was the only person who previously received Ulysses S. Grants title?
The destruction of enemies land and resources
What is total war?
It brought supplies to the confederacy
Why was capturing petersburg important?
The “wilderness”
What did Grants army have to cross to capture richmond
Appomattox Court House
Where did the south surrender?
He allowed confederate soldiers to go home instead of jail
Why was Lee surprised as grant?
620,000
How many north and south deaths?
states rights
What argument will continue after the war?
status of African Americans
What argument will continue after the war?
April
What month was Lincolns assassination?
14
What day was Lincolns assassination?
1865
What year was Lincolns assassination?
John Wilkes Booth
Who murdered lincoln?
on a break
Where was Lincolns security when he was killed?
They thought it was a part of the play
Why was the crowd confused when lincoln was shot?
Fords Theater in Washington DC
Where was Lincoln killed?
$64.8 million
How much was government debt before the war began?
$5.2 billion
How much was government debt after the war?
Merrimac
South
Moniter
North
Republican
What political party was Lincoln?
Capture Mississippi, Capture Richmond, Block navy
What were the steps of the anaconda plan?
Maryland, Virginia
What slave states stuck with the union?
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