Sectional Crisis
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
People living in the new states of Kansas and Missouri could determine the slavery issue. Took place of the Missouri Compromise.
Which side did the border states take during the civil war?
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri sided with the north. North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Arkansas sided with the south.
When was Reconstruction
1865-1877
First Battle of Bull Run.
Who murdered president Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What was one ruling by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Decision?
Dred Scott did not have the right to sue because he was not a citizen.
What did the emancipation proclamation do?
Declared enslaved people in areas controlled by the Confederate army were free.
What does the fourteenth amendment do?
Guarantees the rights of citizenship to everyone born or naturalized in the US, including due process and equal protection under law.
Which Battle was held near, "Shiloh Church?"
Battle of Shiloh
Who was in the Lincoln-douglas debate?
Abe Lincoln and Stephen douglas.
What did the free soil party believe?
They believed that new states and territories ought to be free of slavery.
What is total war?
It involves attacks on civilians and resources not just soldiers.
Why was president Johnson Impeached?
He broke the tenure of office act by firing a cabinet member without Congress approval
In 1862 the second battle of________ happened.
Bullrun
In what state did Lincoln and Douglas meet to have debates.
Illinois
What were Lincoln's prewar opinions about racial equality?
He did not believe in racial equality but thought slavery was wrong. He believed black people should be free.
What does the thirteenth amendment signify?
The legal end to slavery in the US.
What does the phrase, "40 acres and a mule," refer too?
General Sherman proposed diving up plantations and giving former slaves 40 acres of land and a mule. (Congress opposed)
23,000 people were killed in this Battle
Battle of Antietam
Who won the election of 1960?
lincoln
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
A Requirement of Northerners to cooperate with and assist slave catchers and denied fugitives a free trial. (Divided the Nation even further)
What is the first line of the Gettysburg Address?
Four Score and Seven Years Ago, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent.
What was Plessy vs Ferguson?
Supreme court case that rule segregation was legal as long as facilities for black people were separate but equal to whites.
This battle was a major victory for the Yankees and a turning point in the civil war.
Battle of Gettysburg.
What were some of the main points of Lincolns inaugural address?
War is not a reasonable option
federal property in the south will remain federal property
People of the US should all be friends, not enemies
The US is one country.