Civil War Lesson 1

​The North was called the Union and the Union Soldiers were given the nickname, “Yankees”

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​The South was called The Confederacy and the Confederate Soldiers were given the nickname, “Rebels”

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Sectionalism is what divided the United States into NORTH and SOUTH or into sections. (PLACING THE INTERESTS OF YOUR STATE/REGION over the GooD/INTERESTS of YOUR NATION/COUNTRY)

• ​ECONOMIC : INDUSTRY - manufacturing goods in factories

• ​PRO-TARIFFS : Taxes on imports would encourage US consumers to purchase goods from the US instead of buying goods from Great Britain.

• ​Anti-Slavery : The North did not rely on agriculture or a plantation system, so there was a movement against slavery.

• ​States Rights : The Union was more concerned with following Federal Laws and mandates instead of wanting to make more decisions as individual states.

• ​ECONOMIC : Agriculture - the South relied on the plantation system to grow large cash crops (cotton)

• ​ANTI-TARIFFS : Taxes on imports would create extra expenses for the South as they had established trade relationships with Great Britain and imported many goods.

• ​Pro-Slavery : The plantation system relied on SLAVERY, so the South did not believe they could function without the institution.

• ​States Rights : The South was angry about the Federal laws being made at the time and wanted to have more freedom to overturn and/or make their own laws.

1. Secede - to formally withdraw/separate (The Southern states withdrew from the Union and created The Confederacy)

2. Blockaide - a military tactic that cuts off an area to prevent an enemy from receiving supplies

3. ​Martial Law - When the military steps in to enforce laws

4. ​Emancipation - to set free

5. ​Abolitionist - a person who actively worked to end slavery

​6.​ Sharecropper - a farmer who works land that belongs to someone else. In exchange they were paid with a portion of the crops they harvested.

7. Confederacy - A type of government in which many states form a country, but the states have more power to rule that the group as a whole.

8. popular sovereignty - the people rule and exercise power through their voting power

9. ​Federalism - A government that is organized into different levels. Each level has different responsibilities

10. ​Reconstruction - Rebuilding after the war. The union had to put itself back together.

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• ​President Abraham Lincoln

• ​General Ulysses S. Grant

• ​President Jefferson Davis

• ​General Robert e. LEe