Pierce/ Buchanan
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
A U.S. purchase of land in southern parts of the US (which is today Arizona and New Mexico), which we purchased for $10 million dollars in 1854. (the leader of Mexico badly needed the money).
What was the CSA Army during the Civil War named, and what was the Union Army named?
CSA: Northern Virginia (The president of the CSA was Jefferson Davis and the capital was moved to Richmond in 1861)
Union: Potomac
The two worrisome regions for Lincoln in 1861 were the Border regions and the Butternut regions. Please list the states in both of these regions and explain why he was worried about them.
Border States: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. Slavery was legal in these states, but they remained in the Union.
Butternut: Illinois (southern part), Ohio, and Indiana. Many transplanted southerners lived there.
Who did the Northern Democrats elect for President and who did the Southern Democrats elect for President in the Election of 1860? Who did the Republicans nominate?
North: Stephen Douglas
South: JOhn Breckenridge
Republicans: Lincoln; and nominated in CHICAGO!
How could men in the North and the South get out of the military draft?
Bonus: Immigrants from this ethnic group rioted against the draft?
North: he could buy his way out with a $300 payment.
South: Men who owned 20 or more slaves could be exempt
Bonus: Irish (1863)
T/F: Pierce supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act
True and it passed and repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Two-parter:
1. How long was Grant's siege in Vicksburg?
2. Why did South Carolina bombard Fort Sumter?
1. 2-months
2.They considered it an act of aggression when Lincoln said he would rearm the fort.
T/F: Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation because he had promised God he would issue it if the Lord gave the North a good result in a battle (Antietam was that battle)
True
Lincoln won about _______ percent of the popular vote, and the majority of the Electoral College in the Election of 1860.
39 (conversely, he won the majority of BOTH the popular vote and Electoral College in the Election of 1864 under the National Union Party). His "Cooper's Union Speech" in NY in 1860 was well received.
What was the first Southern state to secede from the Union?
A. Georgia
B. South Carolina
C. Virginia
D. Mississippi
B. South Carolina
T/F: The Financial Panic of 1857 was caused by a decline in the U.S. stock market due to over-speculation on real-estate stocks.
False: over-speculation of railroad stocks
What were the objectives of Lee (CSA) in his Maryland Campaign and then in his Pennsylvania Campaign?
Maryland: Wanted to win in the North to try to influence Great Britain to enter the war on the Confederate side and so the Border States would be convinced to leave the Union.
Pennsylvania: Wanted Britain to enter war on side of CSA, and wanted a victory in the North to persuade northern voters to vote for Democrats in the next election (not for Lincoln).
The Emancipation Proclamation shifted the purpose of the War from preserving the Union to:
1.
2.
1. preserving the Union
2. freeing the slaves
What were the "Crittenden Amendments"?
A compromise with the South in an effort to coax the CSA back to the Union,and included an amendment that would make a Constitutional right to hold a slave.
What were the two issues discussed in the 7 Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
popular sovereignty and slavery
What were the two-political effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1864?
1. it greatly weakened the Democratic Party in the North.
2. It formed the new Republican Party.
What was the name of the Union Army's 6-point plan to defeat the CSA, and what were the goals?
"Anaconda" Plan. The goal was to 1. take control of the Mississippi River, to cut the CSA in half. 2. capture the CSA capital (Richmond). 3. wear down Robert E. Lee's Army *(by bloody battle after battle)4. break up South by attacking Georgia and S. Carolina. 5. free slaves wherever. 6. blockade southern ports to prevent cotton exports.
Why did Lincoln relieve McClellan a second time as Union Army commander?
McClellan hesitated to follow up and crush Lee's army after the victory of Antietam
What was the name of the group(s) that supported McClellan for President in the Election of 1864?
Cooperheads and Peace Democrats
What was NOT significant about the battle between the CSA ship Merrimack and the U.S. ship Monitor?
A. it was a Union victory that created a huge step forward in the Northern effort to blockade southern ports.
B. It was the most significant naval victory in the Civil War.
C. Both ships used the latest naval technology (artillery, cannon).
D. It was the second time the naval cannon was tested in war.
D. It was the second time the naval cannon was tested in war (it was the first time it was tested in war)
What did the Lecompton Constitution prevent?
It stopped Kansas from becoming a free state in 1857
Two-parter: Grant gave generous terms of surrender to Lee at this Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia on this date _________by allowing the CSA troops to keep what items?
1. Date: April 9th , 1865
2. Horses and firearms.
T/F: Lincoln appointed Lee "General of the Armies" after his victory in the Battle of Chattanooga.
False-That is when he appointed Grant the general in 1863; however, Lincoln wrote Lee a letter in 1861 asking for him to be general of the Union armies (Lee opposed secession though and refused).
Why was Lincoln victorious in the election of 1864?
1. Sherman's capture of Atlanta.
2. Farragut's victory at the battle of Mobile Bay.
3. Damage to the CSA at the Shenandoah Valley.
People Wid Card!
1. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
2. Who was the Commanding Confederate Officer in the First Battle of Bull Run (leading their victory)?
3. Who was the Commander of Union forces in the Battle of Gettysburg?
4. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
5. Who was the radical abolitionist who led the raid on Harper's Ferry?
6. Who was the Republican front candidate in the Convention of 1860?
7. Who was the Union colonel who saved Gettysburg on day 2 when he instructed his Maine volunteers to "fix bayonetts"?
8. Who was the general appointed via letter in 1861 by Lincoln to command the main body of the Union troops in the Civil War?
9. What was the result of the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision?
10. Who was known as "father Abraham" to newly freed slaves?
1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
2. "Stonewall Jackson" (killed by one of his own men-Chancellorsville).
3. George Meade
4. John Wilkes Booth
5. John Brown
6. Sen. William Seward (NY)
7. Joshua Chamberlain
8. Grant
9. That the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and a slave who lived in a free state was still not "entitled" freedom
10. Abraham Lincoln