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- 2. The first shots of the Civil War were fired at blank, South Carolina. Although no one was killed there, the bloodiest war in the country’s history had begun.
- 4. developed a two-part strategy: (1) destroy the South’s economy with a naval blockade of southern ports; (2) gain control of the Mississippi River to divide the South. Other leaders urged an attack on Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital.
- 8. offered southerners amnesty, or official pardon, for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion.
- 10. agency providing relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the South
- 12. slave states that did not join the Confederacy
- 14. made slavery illegal
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- 1. supported the Wilmot Proviso
- 3. document stating that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of [the] territory.
- 5. American author and daughter of Lyman Beecher, she was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
- 6. antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality of slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists’ cause
- 7. formally withdraw
- 9. allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty
- 11. This was the idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South’s raw cotton to supply its booming textile industry
- 13. favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country.