The Civil War

3. a riot involving hundreds of women in Richmond, Virginia, who sought food and other goods that were becoming scarce in the South as Union forces cut off key parts of the region's economy
7. a law passed to allow the seizure and return of people who had escaped slavery and fled to another state or a federal territory
8. a series of deadly riots that took place in U.S. cities in 1863 to protest the newly established military draft
10. measures passed by Congress to admit Missouri into the Union as a state with slavery and Maine as a free state while also setting a line at latitude 36° 30' north of which all Louisiana Purchase territory would be free
12. an edict issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, to free people enslaved in the Confederate state
13. measures passed by Congress to admit California into the Union as a free state, to divide the rest of the Southwest into the New Mexico and Utah territories
14. a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that described the cruelties of slavery so clearly that it increased the fervor with which both proslavery and antislavery Americans supported their causes
15. the first entirely African American regiment of the Union Army
16. a nickname Republicans used to describe those Northerners, mostly Democrats, who opposed the war and were sympathetic to the South

1. a raid led by abolitionists in 1856 in hopes of seizing the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in order to distribute the weapons to people enslaved in the area and spark a revolt
2. one of the two major U.S. political parties; founded in 1854 by antislavery opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
4. Civil War strategy which had 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
5. 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
6. an inspirational speech given by President Abraham Lincoln, in memory of the Union soldiers who died trying to protect the ideal of freedom upon which the United States had been founded
7. a federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, at which the first battle of the Civil War took place
9. during the Civil War, a devastating total war military campaign, that involved marching 60,000 Union troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah and destroying everything along the way
11. a law passed by Congress in 1854 to establish Kansas and Nebraska as territories with popular sovereignty