Manifest Destiny
Causes of the Civil War
Battles of the Civil War
Reconstruction
People
100
This president of Mexico, made himself a dictator and brought the Mexican military to impose his authority in Texas.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
100
This proposal recommended that slavery be prohibited in all land acquired from Mexico. It re-ignited the old issue as to whether newly acquired territory would permit or prohibit slavery.
The Wilmot Proviso
100
This was the first attack of the Civil War. Lincoln wrote to Jefferson Davis informing him that he was going to resupply the soldiers stationed off the coast of South Carolina. Jefferson Davis attacked the garrison.
Fort Sumter
100
What did the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments do?
13th amendment - abolished slavery in the United States, the 14th amendment - made everyone born in the US a citizen regardless of race, the 15th amendment - gave African Americans the right to vote
100
What is happening in this picture? (Identify who, what, where, when)
Confederate General Robert E Lee is meeting with Union General Ulysses S Grant to discuss the terms of surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia in April 1865.
200
Which battle is this?
Battle of the Alamo
200
This idea recommended that the slave status of newly acquired territories should be voted on by the local settlers, instead of by the federal government.
popular sovereignty
200
In this battle the Union was defeated. It overturned the assumption that the war would be over quickly. Both sides realized the war would be longer than they previously expected.
the first Battle of Bull Run
200
SECTION 1: No negro shall be allowed to come within the limits of the town of Opelousas without special permission from his employers. SECTION 3. No negro shall be permitted to rent or keep a house within the limits of the town under any circumstances. SECTION 4. No negro shall reside within the limits of the town of Opelousas who is not in the regular service of some white person or former owner. SECTION 5. No public meetings of negroes shall be allowed
Black Codes (Jim Crow laws)
200
How might the gold rush indirectly have brought the nation closer to the Civil War?
As more people rushed west, more settlers on the newly acquired lands like California wanted to make their territories a state thus reigniting the controversial question as to whether said states would or would not permit slavery.
300
After the Texan Revolt, which rivers did Mexico and Texas claim drew the rightful border of Texas?
Mexico claimed the border lay at the Nueces River, while Texas claimed it lay at the Rio Grande River.
300
In this small scale riot, pro-slavery Southerners and militant abolitionists from the north rushed in to a territory and fought each other in the interest of making the territory either a slave or free state. 200 people were shot dead.
"Bleeding Kansas"
300
In a single day 4,000 soldiers died. It was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War and of all wars the US has been involved in. It was bloody, partially because it took place very close to the Union capital - Washington DC.
Antietam
300
What was the difference between Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan and the Radical Republicans' Wade-Davis Bill?
Lincoln wanted only ten percent of Southerners to pledge loyalty to the Union (Ten percent plan), while the Radical Republicans wanted a majority (Wade-Davis bill).
300
What is happening in this picture?
Commodore Matthew Perry is attempting to open up trade relations with Japan.
400
Who said "American Blood was shed on American soil"? What did he mean?
James Polk claimed this as a pretext for starting war with Mexico, even though he stationed soldiers on territory that was disputed between Texas and Mexico
400
In the Dred Scott vs Sandford case, Supreme Court Chief Justice ________________ decided that the slave Dred Scott was not entitled to gain his freedom, and that the Constitution was not intended to include blacks as citizens, thereby invalidating all previous laws that guaranteed freedom to blacks in Northern territory (eg. Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Missouri Compromise)
Roger Taney
400
After this battle, the Confederates would no longer bring the fight on Union territory.
Gettysburg
400
After Lincoln was assassinated, what impact did President Andrew Johnson have on Reconstruction?
Johnson pardoned nearly all Southerners, believed blacks had no role to play in Reconstruction and vetoed a bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau. He also vetoed the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 but Congress had enough votes to veto it.
400
What was the Tenure of Office Act?
In March 1867, Congress adopted the Tenure of Office Act, barring the president from removing certain officeholders, including cabinet members, without the consent of the Senate. Johnson considered this an unconstitutional restriction on his authority. In February 1868, he dismissed Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, an ally of the Radicals. The House of Representatives responded by approving articles of impeachment—that is, it presented charges against Johnson to the Senate, which had to decide whether to remove him from office. The final tally was 35-19 to convict Johnson, one vote short of the two-thirds necessary to remove him.
500
Which modern-day states were taken from Mexico under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming
500
Identify all the pieces of legislation agreed to in the Compromise of 1850.
- approved California's request to enter the Union as a free state
- strengthened fugitive slave laws with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- banned the slave trade in Washington, D.C. (while still allowing slavery itself there)
- defined northern and western borders for Texas while establishing a territorial government for the Territory of New Mexico, with no restrictions on whether any future state from this territory would be free or slave. Texas' debts would be paid off by the Federal government
- established a territorial government for the Territory of Utah, with no restrictions on whether any future state from this territory would be free or slave
500
This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi thereby preventing the half of the Confederacy west of the Mississippi from supporting or communicating with the eastern half and vice versa.
Vicksburg
500
What is the significance of the Bargain of 1877
Since there was a tie in the Presidential election, Republicans struck a bargain that if Democrats acknowledged the Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes as President then Republicans would officially end their Reconstruction efforts in the South. Once Hayes took office, he pulled all remaining Northern troops out of the Southern states. The KKK resurged in the South as did the Jim Crow laws.
500
What's the difference between carpetbaggers and scalawags?
Since newly freed blacks supported the Republican party, many northerners went to the south to run for public office as a Republican candidate knowing full well they would easily get elected. They were called carpetbaggers. But Southerners reserved most of their hatred for other fellow Southerners who also ran for public office as a Republican, and thus earned the derisive name "scalawags".