Karteikarten

CIVIL WAR CRITICAL TERMS

Ruby Jenkins US History 11th grade Englisch 8 Karten

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1ANACONDA PLANMILITARY PLAN TO “STRANGLE” THE SOUTH WITH A NAVAL BLOCKADE OF SOUTHERN PORTS, SEIZE CONTROL OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, AND DIVIDE THE CONFEDERACY IN TWO; MEANT TO LESSEN ACTUAL BLOODSHED
2NORTH & SOUTH ADVANTAGES/DISADVANTAGESNORTH – LARGER POPULATION, MORE INDUSTRIALIZED ABILITY TO PRODUCE MORE WEAPONS/AMMUNITION
SOUTH – FIGHTING TO CONTINUE THEIR WAY OF LIFE, MANY GIFTED MILITARY COMMANDERS (EX: ROBERT E. LEE AND STONEWALL JACKSON)
3SECTIONALISMGREATER LOYALTY THEIR “SECTION” (REGION OF THE COUNTRY) THAN TO THE UNITED STATES AS A WHOLE
4LINCOLN1) 16TH PRESIDENT (REPUBLICAN)
2) WHEN HE WAS ELECTED, SOUTH CAROLINA SECEDED (LEFT THE UNION) AND OTHER STATES FOLLOWED
3) ASSASSINATED BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH ONE WEEK AFTER THE CONFEDERACY SURRENDERED
5KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT (1854)1) ACT DIVIDED THE NEBRASKA TERRITORY INTO KANSAS & NEBRASKA
2) “POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY” – CAN VOTE WHETHER TO BE SLAVE OR FREE AREAS
3) REPUBLICAN PARTY FORMED IN RESPONSE TO THIS ACT – REPUBLICANS WANTED TO STOP THE GROWTH OF SLAVE AREAS
6EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATIONLINCOLN ANNOUNCED THAT ALL SLAVES IN STATES FIGHTING AGAINST THE UNION WOULD BE FREED
7GETTYSBURG ADDRESS1) LINCOLN WROTE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS TO HONOR UNION LOSSES IN THIS BATTLE
2) FOCUS OF SPEECH - KEEPING THE UNION TOGETHER
8JEFFERSON DAVISPRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY