Causes
Causes Part 2
Battles
Important People
Terms
100
What admitted Missouri as a slave state, admitted Maine as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
This state was the first to secede from the Union upon the election of Lincoln as president?
What is South Carolina?
100
Sherman’s use of total warfare against the South from Atlanta to Savannah
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
100
Commander of the Union Army
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
100
Lincoln’s speech that freed the slaves only in the Confederacy
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
What 1- accepted California as a free state, 2- established that New Mexico and Utah could decide for themselves the issue of slavery, 3- outlawed the slave trade in D.C., and 4- strictly enforced the Fugitive Slave Act?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
What ended the War with Mexico?
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ?
200
when Sherman ordered all civilians out of the city and then began to burn and destroy everything of military value
What is the Battle of Atlanta?
200
Who proposed the issue of popular sovereignty
Who is Stephen Douglas?
200
a person’s right not to be imprisoned unless charged with a crime and given a trial
What is habeas corpus?
300
When a slave appealed to the Supreme Court, saying he should be free because he traveled to free states with his master?
What is the Dred Scott Case?
300
During the Mexican War, in anticipation that we would win, a proposal was made in Congress for the territory gained in the Mexican War Proposal for NO SLAVERY IN NEW TERRITORY
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
largest battle of the Civil War that turned the tide and marked the beginning of the end for Confederate troops in the East
What is Battle of Gettysburg?
300
Commander of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
Term that allows each individual state being able to determine the issue of slavery for themselves
What is popular sovereignty?
400
Anti-slavery groups moved into a territory and set up an anti-slavery constitution and pro-slavery group moved to the same territory and set up a pro-slavery constitution which resulted in extreme violence
What is Bleeding/Bloody Kansas?
400
What repealed the Missouri Compromise?
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
Union victory in Maryland. Bloodiest one-day battle in American history
What is the Battle of Antietam?
400
Slave minister started a revolt that resulted in the strengthening of slave codes
Who is Nat Turner?
400
Lincoln used this speech to redefine the purpose of fighting the war: the reunification of the Union
What is the Gettysburg Address?
500
Term refers to restrictions on slaves, preventing them from learning to read and write
What are slave codes?
500
attack against the arsenal at Harper's Ferry in a movement against slavery?
What is John Brown's Raid?
500
Union victory resulted in the capture of the control of the Mississippi
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
500
Who led South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis?
Who is John C. Calhoun?
500
In order to promote buyers to purchase American goods, the national government began imposing tariffs. South Carolina protested this in what is known as _________
What is the Nullification Crisis?
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