The Causes and Course of the Civil War

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  1. 3. The 1857 ruling of the Supreme Court in the case Scott v. Sandford that legalized slavery in the territories and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
  2. 8. Resulted in Lee fighting a defensive war and not attack the North again.
  3. 10. Those who supported the Constitution and a stronger national public.
  4. 11. The Union laid siege on this city for 6 weeks until the city surrendered.
  5. 12. Believed if national government is too strong, then states would lose power.
  6. 15. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states" are, and henceforward shall be free".
  7. 16. Strong concern for local interests.
  8. 18. In an inspirational speech at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln praised Union soldiers who sacrificed their lives to uphold the ideal of freedom.
  9. 19. Congress enacted measures to grant California freedom, divide Southwest into New Mexico and Utah territories, ban slavery in Washington, D.C., and strengthen fugitives laws.
  10. 20. Described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused.
  11. 21. Lincoln and Scott's Civil War strategy involved Union forces establishing a naval blockade of southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River to invade and defeat the South.
  12. 22. The Underground Railroad's most renowned conductor, who risked her life to guide 70 enslaved people north to new freedoms before the Civil War.
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  1. 1. Before the Civil War, the United States had a political practice where newly organized territories allowed residents to vote on slavery's acceptance.
  2. 2. Southern States union.
  3. 4. Provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri's a slave state.
  4. 5. Union General William Tecumseh Sherman led a devastating total war military campaign, marching 60,000 troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah, destroying everything along the way.
  5. 6. It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.
  6. 7. David Wilmot introduced an amendment banning slavery in U.S. territories, ending the Guadalupe Hidalgo war, but ceding 55% of Mexico's territory.
  7. 9. Abraham Lincoln won the election with less than 40% of the votes. Caused the Southern to leave the Union.
  8. 13. Texas was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845.
  9. 14. A law passed by Congress in 1854 to establish Kansas and Nebraska as territories with popular sovereignty.
  10. 17. The Union war effort expanded to include not only reunification, but also the abolition of slavery.