Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln's initial goal when the Civil War began
What is preserving the union of the United States?
This plan stated Southerners could become citizens by taking a loyalty oath, and when 10% of the population took the oath, they could set up a state government.
What was Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?
One of the South's advantages.
What were well-trained generals, home soil advantage, or high troop morale?
The Supreme Court case that nullified the Missouri Compromise (AKA: The final straw of slavery)
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This concept was the driving force behind westward expansion
What is Manifest Destiny?
The event that most directly led to Southern secession
What is the election of 1860?
The initial focus of the government after the war
What was the readmission of the South?
The age range of men that the Conscription Act subjected to military service
Who were white men between the ages of 18 and 35?
The act that repealed the Missouri Compromise and destroyed the Whig party.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This act authorized money for the Transcontinental Railroad, which was finished by 1869
What is The Pacific Railway Act?
The event that gave Lincoln notoriety, which led him to run for president
What is Lincoln’s Illinois State Senate election loss?
The 13th, 14th, AND 15th amendments.
What is abolishing slavery, granting citizenship and equal protection under the law, and guarantee voting rights for Black men?
This battle that proved the war would be long and bloody.
What was the First Battle of Bull Run of July 1861?
The book that revealed the nature of slavery to Northerners and made them ask, "Is slavery just?"
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico, and Utah.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The right President Lincoln suspended during the war.
What is Habeas Corpus (speedy trial)?
These kept Black Americans as near to a state of bondage as possible.
What were the Black Codes?
The strategies that restricted the South from getting resources and destroyed its infrastructure.
What were the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March?
The way the North's economy contrasted with the South's economy.
What was the North's dependence on free labor for manufacturing compared to the South's dependence on slave labor?
This political party was formed with the desire to stop the expansion of slavery in the new territories
Who was the Free-Soil Party?
The effect of the Emancipation Proclamation on the Confederacy
What is the slaves were free in the rebellion states?
The bill that declared the national government had the responsibility of protecting the citizens, not the states.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
The name of the black regiment of soldiers formed after the Emancipation Proclamation
Who were the Famous Massachusetts 54th?
These resolutions were entailed in the Compromise of 1850. (Must get at least 2/4)
1. What is the admission of California as a free state?
2. What was the creation of territorial governments in newly acquired territories from Mexico without restrictions on slavery?
3. What was the abolition of the slave TRADE in Washington, D.C.?
4. What were the stricter, more enforced fugitive slave laws?
This treaty opened two ports to American shipping in Japan
What is the Kanagawa Treaty?