Unit 5: Pre-Civil War
Preston S. Brooks landed his role in History by caning this abolitionist Senator on the floor of the Senate.
Who is "Charles Sumner?"
A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What percentage of the population of the US died in the Civil War?
a) 36%
b) 5%
c) 2%
d) 14%
What is "2%" = 620,000 casualties
This president dies shortly after eating a bowl of cherries and drinking milk on a hot July 4th day.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
As part of the "Emancipation Proclamation," which were the four Border States under Union control, in which Lincoln did not free slaves?
What are "Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky and Delaware?"
Slave who believed he was chosen by God to lead his people out of bondage. Led others to kill approximately 70 white men, women and children.
Who is Nat Turner?
A political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into US territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
What did Civil War veteran John Stith Pemberton invent?
What is "Coca-Cola?"
This President completed one full term as a "Whig," and then ran again under the 1856 "Know Nothing Party."
Who is Millard Fillmore?
Who was was one of the earliest photographers in American history, best known for his scenes of the Civil War?
Who is "Mathew Brady?"
The most well known empresario in Texas, and establishes the first colony in what is now Texas.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
**Bonus**: Worth 600 Total Points
A. President Lincoln was assassinated during a play performed in what building?
B. What was the name of the play?
C. What is the name of the man who assassinated him?
A. Ford’s Theatre
B. Our American Cousin
C. John Wilkes Booth
What type of pet did General Robert E. Lee keep with him during the Civil War?
What is a "Chicken?"
This President lost all of his children, his wife and retired as a recluse.
Who is "Franklin Pierce?"
Name all 6 generals President Lincoln chose to control the Eastern theatre of war in ORDER.
Who are "1. McClellan 2. Pope 3. McClellan 4. Burnside 5. Hooker 6. Meade"
The battle in which Texans defeated the Mexican Army giving Texas its independence.
What is Battle of San Jacinto?
A name given to the American Party, formed in the 1850s to curtail the political influence of immigrants
What is the Know Nothing Party?
Statutes, passed in nine Northern states in the 1850s that forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed jury trials for fugitive slaves.
What are "Personal Liberty Laws?"
Who was the only US President to serve the Confederacy during the Civil War?
Who is "John Tyler?"
Name 5 Confederate victories during the Civil War.
What are "Chancellorsville, Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Ft. Sumter and the 7 Days' Battle?"
This term refers to the 19th century belief that married women's activities should be limited to housework and family.
What is the "Cult of Domesticity?"
An amendment to an 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery.
What is the Wilmont Proviso?
Name the battle in which the most acreage was fought on during the US Civil War.
What is the "Battle of Kennesaw Mountain?"
This President was the first American born on US soil, and therefore not considered a British subject.
Who is "Martin Van Buren?" (8th President)
Following the Battle of Antietam, Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) is offered command of the United States' first _________.
Also -
What is the title of the 1989 movie portraying this story?
What is the "first all-African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry?"
And -
What is "Glory?"