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This future president was elected in 1860 and promised to preserve the Union.
This enslaved man’s lawsuit became one of the most divisive Supreme Court cases in U.S. history.
➡️ Who is Abraham Lincoln?
➡️ Who is Dred Scott?
This rebellion convinced many white Southerners that slavery needed stricter control.
➡️ What is Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
This belief justified westward expansion (sea to shining sea) as God's Providence for America.
➡️ What is Manifest Destiny?
The Union’s primary goal at the start of the Civil War was this.
➡️ What is preserving the Union?
The Texas Revolution occurred in what year? (It resulted in an independent republic after defeating Mexico.)
This war took place from 1846–1848 and resulted in major U.S. territorial expansion.
➡️ What is the Texas Revolution (1836)?
➡️ What is the Mexican-American War (1846–48)?
This Southern political leader became president of the Confederate States of America.
This sitting U.S. senator from Massachusetts was attacked with a cane for opposing slavery.
➡️ Who is Jefferson Davis?
➡️ Who is Charles Sumner?
This compromise admitted California as a free state while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Law.
➡️ What is the Compromise of 1850?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and transferred massive amounts of land to the United States.
➡️ What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This Union naval strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and split the Confederacy.
➡️ What is the Anaconda Plan?
This election in 1860 triggered Southern secession because the winner received no Southern electoral votes.
This conflict lasted from 1861–1865 and determined the future of slavery and the Union.
➡️ What is Lincoln’s election (1860)?
➡️ What is the American Civil War (1861–1865)?
This abolitionist’s raid on Harpers Ferry terrified the South and convinced many that violence was coming.
This U.S. president before Lincoln tried to avoid sectional conflict and largely failed to act as the nation fell apart.
➡️ Who is John Brown?
➡️ Who is James Buchanan?
This act allowed slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty and led to violence in the territories.
➡️ What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This political compromise attempted to preserve the Union by protecting slavery where it already existed.
➡️ What is the Corwin Amendment?
This battle stopped Lee’s invasion of the North and became the bloodiest single day of the war.
➡️ What is the Battle of Antietam?
⭐ DAILY DOUBLE ⭐
Put the following three events in correct chronological order and give the year for each:
Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln elected
➡️ What is:
Lincoln elected — 1860
Emancipation Proclamation — 1863
Gettysburg Address — 1863
This Confederate general was known for aggressive tactics and died after being wounded by his own men.
This Confederate commander repeatedly defeated Union armies early in the war but ultimately surrendered in 1865.
➡️ Who is Stonewall Jackson?
➡️ Who is Robert E. Lee?
This Supreme Court case ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
➡️ What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This Confederate attack allowed Lincoln to claim the moral high ground at the start of the war.
➡️ What is the firing on Fort Sumter?
Explain what the Emancipation did (specifically).
➡️A war measure issued by President Lincoln in Confederate states that would ban slavery on Janurary 1, 1863. Border states were not included.
Bonus: Extra 100 points: The E.P. changed the purpose of the war from _____to________.
The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in what year?
What year was the Gettysburg Address?
➡️ What is the Emancipation Proclamation (1863)?
➡️ What is the Gettysburg Address (1863)?
This enslaved man’s Supreme Court case ruled that Black Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
These two Union generals helped transform the war into a total war by relentlessly attacking Confederate armies, resources, and morale.
➡️ Who is Dred Scott?
➡️ Who are Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman?
This event revealed the collapse of compromise and showed that sectional conflict had turned violent at the national level.
➡️ What is the Caning of Charles Sumner?
⭐ DAILY DOUBLE
Explain how one event related to westward expansion directly intensified sectional conflict over slavery.
➡️ What is Texas annexation, the Mexican-American War, or the Wilmot Proviso leading to renewed slavery debates? (open to other interpretations/events depending on the argument)
Describe how Sherman’s March to the Sea reflected the idea of total war.
➡️ What is destroying civilian infrastructure, food supplies, railroads, and morale?
Explain how two events from this list show a shift from sectional conflict to national crisis:
Texas Revolution (1836), Mexican-American War (1846–48), Lincoln’s election (1860).
These two events, both occurring in 1865, symbolized victory for the Union and tragedy for the nation.
➡️ What is westward expansion intensified slavery debates, culminating in secession after Lincoln’s election?
➡️ What are the end of the Civil War (1865) and Lincoln’s assassination (1865)?