5.2: Sectionalism from 1850-1860 & The Civil War (1861-1865)

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

Federal Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry

The incident at Harpers Ferry’s greatly ___________ tensions between the North and South (a)

increased

Sectionalism 1857-1860

Sectionalism 1857-1860

By 1860, the Republicans elected Lincoln without even campaigning in the South!

Secession & the Effects of Fort Sumter Civil War was not technically

between slave states & free states (the “border states” of MO, KY,

DE, MD did not secede)

Fort Sumter, South Carolina

In April 1861, a skirmish at Fort Sumter, SC led to the 1st shots fired of the Civil War

Advantages of the Union & Confederacy

The Civil War

Antietam, 1862: Convinced England & France not to join war with CSA & convinced

Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

Vicksburg, 1863: Cut off Southern access to Mississippi River & led to

Ulysses Grant’s promotion

Gettysburg, 1863: The “turning point” of the Civil

War

Emancipation in 1863The border states could keep their slaves (until 13th amendment passed in 1865)

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) was a famous Union general during the Civil War.

Confederate lines around Atlanta were some of the most fortified of the War. General Johnston hoped to inflict unacceptable losses upon Sherman if he should try to take the city.

Sherman’s first step was to capture the Confederate rail hub of Atlanta. He assaulted the Confederate positions at Kenesaw Mountain, the key to the rest of the area.

Peachtree Street in Atlanta after the Federal bombardment of the city. Marietta Street runs to the left and Decatur Street to the right.

Soldiers destroy a railroad during General Sherman's march to the sea.

By the end of the Civil War, most of the South's locomotives had been destroyed.

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2. A reaffirmation of the Missouri Compromise

3. Several years of peace on the issue of slavery

4. The end of the political career of Stephen Douglas

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3. A brief period of national unity

4. An embarrassing defeat for Robert E. Lee

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3. a battle with heavy casualties on both sides

4. the last time the South invaded the North

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Which of the following quotations is from the Gettysburg Address?

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3. “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

4. “That the government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish”

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The Battle of Gettysburg (1863) took place in what century?

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Converting Years into Centuries and Centuries into Years

Easiest way to remember:What year is it?What century are we in?The century is always one more than the year.

But why???

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