Westward Compromises
This decision allowed slavery only south of the 36.30 line of latitude
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
The person led his family to seize the arsenal at Harpers Ferry and start a rebellion with slave support
Who is John Brown?
The leader of the CSA during the war...
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This is the bloodiest single day battle in Civil War...
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Lincoln was killed by this man at the Ford's Theater on April 14th..
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Fifty Four Forty or FIGHT was used by President Polk as a slogan for what territory?
What is the Oregon Territory?
This person tried to keep building compromises between the north and the south by introducing popular sovereignty
Who is Stephen Douglas?
President Lincoln passed this after the battle of Antietam
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Confederates attacked this fort in April, 1861 when the Union attempted to resupply it. It marked the beginning of the war.
What is Fort Sumter?
This amendment granted citizenship to African Americans after the Civil War..
What is the 14th Amendment?
This leader missed the battle of the Alamo, but helped win the war and later became the President of the Republic of Texas...
Who is Sam Houston?
This case called the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and stated that the plaintiff was not a citizen
What is the Dredd Scott Court Case?
Gifted General that was asked to lead both sides during the war and ended up choosing his home state over the Union..
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This battle became a turning point in the election of 1864 and helped to assure that Lincoln would win re-election
What is the Battle of Atlanta?
This organization helped to provide work, education, and relief for former slaves after the Civil War..
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
The events in Kansas in the 1850s can largely be contributed to this Congressional decision and policy in that decision...
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act and Popular Sovereignty?
Sectionalism, democratic party divide
This person got their nickname at the first battle of Bull Run
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
The Union victory at Vicksburg was important because...
It helped to split the Confederacy in two by conquering all of the Mississippi River, thus cutting off the three western states?
Name at least 3 methods southern states used to limit/prevent newly freed African Americans from voting in elections..
What is the grandfather clause, poll taxes, literacy tests, organizations like the KKK to intimidate voting, Black Codes?
List for me the 5 elements from the Compromise of 1850...
1. Popular Sovereignty in the New Mexico and Utah Territories
2. California is admitted as a Free State
3. Slave Trade is banned in D.C.
4. Border between Texas and New Mexico is established
5. Fugitive Slave law goes into effect
This ________ ended the Mexican/American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This person led the Union army into Georgia, burned Atlanta to the ground, and marched to the sea. What important message was he sending to the south during this campaign?
Who is General William T. Sherman? and your continued rebellion will only result in more destruction. Attempted to break the will of the southern cause.
This battle was a turning point in the war and ended southern offenses into the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Lincoln and Johnson's Reconstruction plans differed from that Congressional plan because they wanted....what did the congressional plan want to do..
To allow the southern states to reenter the nation as quickly as possible, where the congressional plan wanted to punish the region