The Civil War: 1861 - 1865

Advantages/Disadvantages / Causes – Short and Long Term
United States
Confederacy / Missouri Compromise (1820)
Nullification Crisis (1832)
Mexican War (1846-8)
Compromise of 1850

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

Creation of Republican Party (1854)

Bleeding Kansas

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)

Harpers Ferry (1859)
Election of 1860
Fort Sumter
Major Leaders
United States
Civilian
Military
Confederacy
Civilian
Military
Significance of Major Battles (Who won and what effect did the battle have on the course of the war – don’t write major summaries)
1st Bull Run/Manassas

Merrimac v. Monitor

Antietam / Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Atlanta and March to the Sea
Military Strategy / Diplomatic Events during the war
United States – Anaconda Plan
Confederacy – King Cotton Diplomacy /

Trent Affair

The South’s search for allies
Effect of the Emancipation Proclamation

Political Events during the war

United States

Civil Rights during the war
Suspension of Habeas Corpus

Ex Parte Merryman

Confederacy

Resistance to Jefferson Davis

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How did each side mobilize for the war?

United States

Enrollment Act (1863)
Draft Riots (July, 1863)
Medical care
Financing the war
Role of Black soldiers

Confederacy

Conscription Act (1862)
Medical Care
Arming their military
Financing the war