What’s lincolns message was in the Gettysburg address

• To honor the soldiers who had given their lives out there. The ideals are worth dying for and it is up to the living to carry on the work of those who died to protect ideals.

Why did the Confederacy start to draft soldiers from ages 70 to 50?

• the rising death tolls forced the Confederacy to enlist more soldiers.

Advantages of the confederacy?

They knew the confederacy better and they knew the way of the land. Most battles are on Confederate land. Adding on, Cash crops, good generals, strong military tradition, highly motivated soldiers, and more money initially.

Advantages of the union- 

A larger population, and more manufacturing, They also had More fighting power, greater food production, a more extensive railroad system, and more immigrants who could enlist. 

Why were people in the North angry at the kansas-Nebraska Act- 

Kansas-Nebraska act made it possible for the Kansas and Nebraska territories open to slavery. The Missouri Compromise had prevented this from happening since 1820.

Why were the Southerners surprised when lincoln was elected?

• Lincoln's name had not appeared on ballots in most southern states.

Habeus Corpus - The right not to be held in prison without the charge of a specific crime 

Lincoln and his reasoning for suspending habeus corpus

• because it was his response to the rioting by Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore Maryland. The Civil War riots because people in New York were angry with the draft. His main concern was safety for the people.

What Lincoln’s message was in the Gettysburg Address:

• honor the soldiers who had given their lives during the war

Why did the Confederates surrender at Appomattox? 

• They were cornered and they were losing supplies. Rather than destroy his army and sacrifice the lives of his soldiers to no purpose, Lee decided to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia. Three days later, a formal ceremony marked the disbanding of Lee's army and the parole of his men, ending the war in Virginia.

What gave the western territories the right to request to enter the union as a free state?

• Decision was left to the people and this was called popular sovereignty.

Who is John Brown: 

• Martyr, he was standing up for abolitionism. He killed slave owners raided a government arsenal and supplied enslaved African Americans with weapons. He got hanged but he still died for his beliefs. He wants to bring attention to the abolitionist movement

How did the governors order that only officers from Georgia can command Georgia’s troops? How can that demonstrate a problem for the South?

• They sectionalized themselves. The Confederacy was not that united. Can’t organize itself.

Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 

• Elected by congress in 1793, the first Fugitive slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight. The fugitive slave acts were among the most controversial laws of the early 19th century. 

Fugitive slave act of 1850

• a law passed in 1850 that made it legal to arrest runaway slaves anywhere in the United States. The slaves could be returned to their owners. A person who helped runaway slaves faced fines and jail time. 

Why does the Mexican succession intensifies debates about slavery? 

• All eyes are on the west and questions about slavery are going to arise, asking if new western territories are going to be free or slave states.  The nation needed to decide whether slavery would be allowed in these new territories.

What is the Free Soil Party

• The main goal of the Free-Soil Party was to keep slavery out of the western territories. Only a few Free Soilers were abolitionists who wanted to end slavery in the South.

Main goal of new republican party in 1850s.

• The main goal of the Republican party was to stop the spread of slavery into the western territories.

Ulysses goal leading up to the battle of Shiloh 

• total destruction of everything in the South total war. To destroy everything in sight. Grant was the commander of forces in the Union's western campaign. They wanted union control of Misissippi River

One purpose of the Compromise of 1850-  

• allowed the addition of some free states and some slave states, strengthen the Fugitive Slave Act, and outlaw the slave trade, but not slavery in the nation's capital.

 How did the 1860 election reflect the growing sectional differences in the United States?

• Republican Abraham Lincoln won the election without a single electoral vote from the South. He and Douglas competed for the votes of the North and West. In the South, Bell and Breckinridge split the vote.

What impact did the Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sanford case have on life in the United States?

• It declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, The decision that slaves were property and not citizens and therefore had no rights infuriated the North, Essentially, it was yet another factor that brought the North-South divide to a head and contributed to the Civil War.

Explain how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin supported the abolitionist movement, and the reaction the book stirred.

• Stowe wrote this novel to show the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act. However, southerners objected to its ideas, and claimed that the book did not give a true picture of slavery. Despite these objections, Uncle Tom's Cabin helped to change the way northerners felt about slavery.