Civil War
the dates of the Civil War
What is April 12, 1861-April 9, 1865?
This Act was a major factor in the beginning of the Civil War.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The item discovered in California in 1848 that led to a population explosion
What is gold?
The term used for when the southern states left the union.
What is secession or seceded?
The president of the Confederate States of America
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The president of the United States of America in 1860
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The Compromise of 1850 also passed a new law called __________________ which required citizens in Northern states to return runaway slaves to the South.
What is the fugitive slave law?
The belief that the United States had the God-given right to own this continent: ocean to ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
A peaceful takeover of another country or part of a country
What is annexation?
In the Dred Scott decision, this major law passed by Congress was said to be unconstitutional by Chief Justice Taney
What was The Missouri Compromise of 1820?
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The four candidates or parties of the election of 1860
What is Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, and Breckenridge?
or
What is the Republican, Southern Democrat, Northern Democrat, and Constitutional Party?
A major result of the presidential election of 1860
What is secession, forming of the Confederacy and/or The Civil War?
The name of the trail settlers took to move west between 1841-1869
What is the Oregon Trail?
Suffrage
what is the right to vote?
The trail and series of safe houses that helped runaway slaves escape to freedom.
What was the Underground Railroad?
The law Congress hoped would settle the issue of the expansion of slavery into new states and territories.
what is the Compromise of 1850?
The winner of the 1860 Presidential election
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The risks settlers of the Oregon Trail faced
what are some Native American attacks, snake bites, cholera/dysentery/disease, injury, lack of food/water?
An abolitionist.
What is a person who fought to end slavery?
The result of America’s belief in Manifest Destiny
What is America went to war with Mexico. (Mexican-American war) Long Walk of the Navajo and Trail of Tears?
3 battles of the Civil War
What is Gettysburg, Antietam, Bull Run 1/2, Chickasaw, Chicaugua, New Orleans, Wilderness, Vicksburg, or others?
The Basis, or main argument, for the Dred Scott court case
Scott claimed he was moved into one free state (Illinois) and one free territory (Wyoming) and therefore should be free.
The term given to cities formed from mining camps with lots of people moving in.
What is a boom town?
The Compromise of 1850 allowed citizens of states and territories to vote on slavery. This was called ___________________.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The four border states chose to abolish slavery and stay with the Union.
What are Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky?