Leadership of Abraham Lincoln
What act made all men between the ages of 20 and 45 liable for military servic?
The Union‘s first Conscription act
Who proposed the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
Who invented the sewing machine?
Elias Howe
What amendment abolished slaver?
The 13th
Almost one third of the miners in the west were what ethnicity?
Chinese
Who led a force of 100,000 union soldiers on a campaign of deliberate destruction through Georgia and South Carolin?
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman
A majority of the Court stated that in its decision that [BLANK] had no right to sue in a federal court because the farmers of the constitution did not intend African Americans to be U.S. citizens.
Dred Scott
What was the Free-Soil Party slogan?
Free soil, free labor, and free men
What amendment declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens and obligated the states to respect the rights of U.S. citizens and provide them with “equal protection of the laws” and “due process of law”?
The 14th amendment
In what treaty did Mexico recognize the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas?
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Who led an the army of less than 30,000 men that cut off from escaping a union army?
Confederate General Robert E. Lee
What party completely broke apart because of the increasing tensions over slavery and divided northern and southern democrats?
The Whig party.
Who was the most famous conductor that helped slaves escape?
Harriet Tubman
What amendment prohibited any state from denying or abridging a citizen’s right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
The 15th
What promoted settlement of the Great Plains by offering parcels of 160 acres of public land free to any person or family that farmed that land for at least 5 years?
The Homestead Act
In what address did Lincoln rally Americans to the idea that their nation was “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”?
The Gettysburg Address
The republican party was founded in what state?
Wisconsin
Who invented the electric telegraph?
Samuel F.B. Morse
Which act placed the South under military occupatio?
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867
What authorized the building of a transcontinental railroad over a northern route in order to link the economies of California and the western territories with the eastern states?
The pacific railway act
During the civil war, what party supported the war but criticized Lincoln’s conduct of it?
The Democrats
Who was the republican nomine that carried 11 of the 16 free states?
John C. Fremont
What is the territory where the pro slavery and the antislavery groups fought now known as?
Bleeding Kansas
Why did the House of Representatives impeach Johnson?
For violating the Tenure of Office Act.
Where did the government send commodore Matthew C. Perry to force that their government open its ports to trade with American?
Japan