Ch 4 The Civil War

Chapter 4

Sectional Differences States’ Rights Territorial Expansion The Election of Abraham Lincoln

Louisiana PurchaseMissouri CompromiseThe Annexation of TexasThe Mexican American WarThe Compromise of 1850

Popular SovereigntyThe Kansas Nebraska Act

The South takes the 1st Battle – Bull Run.The North slams Lee’s Army at Antietam.Lincoln issues the Emancipation

Proclamation.Battle of Gettysburg is the turning point.Grant is appointed to lead the Union troops.Total War is adopted as northern strategy.Sherman blazes his way to the southern port

of Savannah.War ends at Appomattox Court House in

1865.