1. The Kansas Nebraska act led to the possibility that slavery could be expanded into new
territories where it had once been banned, which led to the division of the nation and the
creation of the republican party.
2. Population, industrial and agricultural capacity, transportation, communication, superior
political leadership, and an established government.
3. Superior military leadership, knowledge of the battlefields, local support, and shorter
supply lines.
4. Keep border states, use naval blockades, and gain control of the Mississippi River and
Richmond.
5. Prepare and wait, wear down the union (War of Attrition), influence other nations with
cotton.
6. It gave the North a moral advantage, as they could now claim the war was to end
slavery, and allowed them to use freed African-Americans in their army and for labor.
7. Grant was willing to use the North’s amount of men and other resources to win battles at
any cost.
8. Sherman’s march to the sea involved Sherman leading 60,000 men to the ocean,
destroying everything in their way throughout the process. It resulted in the capture of
Savannah, Georgia, and the burning of the state capital of South Carolina. It is
controversial to some as it involved using scorched earth policies, which involve
destroying everything as a way of defeating the enemy.
9. The Border states were key geographic points that helped the union win the war.
10. Slavery
11. The siege of Vicksburg and the battle of Gettysburg
12. No, slavery still existed as Lincoln did not end slavery in the areas he could. He mostly
only freed slaves who had escaped to the North.
13. The thirteenth amendment was the amendment to the constitution that ended slavery,
except as a punishment for a crime.
14. Rifles improved, machine guns were made to slaughter many soldiers at a time,
railroads were improved, and the telegraph was invented.
15. The civil war unified the United States as a single unified body and changed the culture
of America. The country as a whole became more industrialized. The war also created
the economy and system of currency we have today.