The causes and course of the Civil war

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  1. 4. strong concern for local interests
  2. 5. a political practice, common in the United States before the Civil War, in which the people living in a newly organized territory had the right to vote on whether to allow slavery in the territory
  3. 6. amendment blocked the senate that has more southern power
  4. 8. measures passed by Congress in 1850 to admit California into the Union as a free state, to divide the rest of the Southwest into the New Mexico and Utah territories
  5. 10. an inspirational speech given by President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the Civil War battle site of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in memory of the Union soldiers who died there trying, in Lincoln's words, to protect the ideal of freedom upon which the United States had been founded
  6. 12. confederacy ignored the proclamiation so it had little immediate effect
  7. 14. articles of confederation was too weak, stronger government resolve problems had no bill of rights
  8. 15. Robert E Lee invades union territory into Maryland
  9. 17. if cuba was annexed there would be more slave territory
  10. 19. 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
  11. 20. President electron was a final wedge between the North and South caused southern states to want to leave the union
  12. 21. Civil War strategy devised by President Abraham Lincoln and General Winfield Scott by which Union forces would establish a naval blockade of southern ports and take control of the Mississippi River in order to squeeze in on the South from the east and west and defeat it
  13. 22. The union aid sledge on this city for 6 weeks union won and split confederacy into two anaconda plan
  14. 23. Compromise slaves received no rights or votes, slaves would count three-fifths determining representation and taxation
Down
  1. 1. a law passed by Congress in 1854 to establish Kansas and Nebraska as territories with popular sovereignty
  2. 2. during the Civil War, a devastating total war military campaign, led by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman, that involved marching 60,000 Union troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah and destroying everything along the way
  3. 3. main as a free state Missouri as a slave state, balance of power between taxation and representation
  4. 7. an edict issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, to free people enslaved in the Confederate states
  5. 9. run by state politicians, poorly organized
  6. 11. ended the Mexican American war Mexico ceded ss percent of its territory and gave up all claims to taxes
  7. 13. was enslaved escaped and helped others gain freedom
  8. 16. Lee fighting a defensive war, President Lincoln would deliver the Gettysburg address for several months after the battle
  9. 18. described the rationable for the united States to purchase cuba from spain