1850s and Civil War Exam SG

• States should be able to decide most matters for themselves

• South feared election of AL would be an end to slavery in territories and eventually the South.

• N—JB a marytr for cause of abolition• S—were alarmed because they see him

seeking to use violence to destroy the Southern way of life

• Bloodiest single day in the war• Stopped Lee’s first invasion of North• Gave AL chance to issue EP

• Ended all confederate hope of invading the N• Major turning point in war• Stonewall Jackson missed by RELee

• Split the S into E and W as Mississippi R controlled by Union

• Sherman wanted this city—as it was a major RR hub for the CSA

• 1st battle of the CW• S fires first shots

• GA waas used to dedicate a cemetery for the Union army’s dead at Gettysburg.

• Was to honor fallen soldiers

• 1. CA state• 2.stronger Federal Fugitive Slave Law• Bans slave trade in DC• Popular sovereignty used to determine if new

states slave or free

• Freed slaves in state in rebellion• Moral cause for war

• The people of the territory would vote to be slave or free as a state

• Major aim—look at NAME—abolish slavery nationwide

• Topic was slavery in the territories • D was for PS• L was against the expansion of slavery

• Network of safehouses [stations] used by runaway slaves [passengers] on their way north to freedom

• famous conductor was Harriet Tubman—known as Moses to her people

• Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote• N—grew angry over slavery• S—banned the book GA sought to arrest her

• 1.PS for Kansas and Nebraska• 2. mini CW in Kansas [Bleeding Kansas in the

mid 1850s]

• North Ads –food production, civilian leadership [AL], industrial capacity

• North DISADS—poor military leadership• South ADS—good military leadership, hopeful

of alliance with England [Eng needed their cotton for their factories]—this was overstated

• Dis—pop, fact, civ leadership

• Court order that requires authorities to appear before a judge and show cause why a prisoner must be jailed

• AL suspends during CW

• Confederate commander—who opposed secession but refused to fight against Virginia

• Hero at Vicksburg• Became commander of all Union armies in

1864

• Final surrender of the CSA army took place here

• Was accidently killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville [CSA victory led by SJ plans] by his own troops

• Path of destruction across GA—[totalwar]—60 miles wide path of total destruction from Atlanta to Savannah

• Famous for his Sherman neckties –destroying RR tracks

• Angel of the battlefield• Founder of American Red Cross

• Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in US

• Shot AL in head at Ford’s theatre after the CW was essentially over AL dies on 4/15/1865

• Name given to Northern Democrats who wanted to make peace with the South [CSA]

• President of the CSA• A micromanager• Interferes with war effort of CSA

• Union general who was fired by AL fir having a case of the SLOWS after the battle of Antietam

• Democratic candidate for President in 1864—running against AL in the midst of the CW

Effect—Results of the CW

• 1. Union was preserved• 2. Southern infrastructure [roads, RR]

destroyed and farm fields burned