The Civil War: 1861 - 1865

Advantages/Disadvantages: Causes: Short and Long Term United States: Missouri Compromise (1832)

Nullification Crisis

Mexican War (1846-8)

Confederacy: Compromise of 1850

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

1 Major Leaders: Creation of Republican Party (1854)

United States: . Civilian:

Bleeding Kansas

. Military: Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)

Confederacy: . Civilian:

Harpers Ferry (1859)

Election of 1860

. Military:

Fort Sumter

2 Significance of Major Battles (Who won and what effect did the battle have on the course of the war?) *Don’t just write summaries! 1st Bull Run/Manassas: Vicksburg:

Merrimac v. Monitor:

Gettysburg:

Shiloh:

Petersburg:

Antietam:

Atlanta and March to the Sea: Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville:

3 Military Strategy: Diplomatic Events during the war: United States: Trent Affair:

The South’s search for allies:

Confederacy:

Effect of the Emancipation Proclamation:

Political Events during the war How did each side mobilize for the war?

4 United States: United States: Radical Republican Congressional Plan: Enrollment Act (1863):

Draft Riots (July, 1863):

Homestead Act (1862):

U.S. Medical care: Peace Democrats or Copperheads:

How did the U.S. (Union) finance the war?

Civil Rights during the war: . Suspension of Habeas Corpus:

Role of Black soldiers:

. Ex Parte Merryman:

Election of 1864: Confederacy: Conscription Act (1862): 5

C.S.A. Medical Care:

Confederacy: How and why did many in the South go against or resist Jefferson Davis?

How did the C.S.A. arm their military?

How did the C.S.A. finance the war?