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1. | preserving the union was his main goal of the Civil War-not abolishing slavery. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it |
2. | the states that seceded from the Union formed this country |
3. | this act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
4. | this regionn had one advantage during the Civil War it had superior military leaders |
5. | due to this slave uprising, Southern State legislatures began passing more restrictive fugitive slave laws to limit the activities of slaves and to strengthen the institution of slavery |
6. | the legal rule that anyone imprisoned must be taken before a judge to determine if the prisoner is being legally held in custody |
7. | a proposal that would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from the Mexican War |
8. | the deadliest battle of the American Civil War; this was the turning point in the war-a major moral victory for the Union and a crushing defeat for the South |
11. | this region had three advantages during the Civil War: more industries, more railroads and more people |
14. | an African American slave claimed he should be a free man because he had lived with his master in slave states and in free states |
15. | In the year of 1820, a resolution disallowed slavery above 39 degrees, 30'North (Mason Dixon Line) with the exception of fugitive slaves, which could still be reclaimed from these areas. |
16. | president of Confederate States of America from 1861-1865 |
18. | violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in this state; popular sovereignty failed |
21. | the first battle of the Civil War |
22. | this state came in the union as a free state in 1850 |
23. | Surrendered to U.S. General Grant to end the Civil War |
24. | Union Major General Ulysses S, Grant gained control of the Mississippi River and cut the Confederacy in half; Confederate troops and supplies in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas were cut off from the Confederacy |
25. | the deadliest one-day battle; Gen. Robert E. Lee marched his forces to battle |