Reason why South disliked the Wilmot Proviso of 1846.
What is give North more power in Congress and their slaves were protected by the Constitution?
100
Pre-Civil War laws passed by nine Northern states to provide the right to trial by jury for runaway slaves.
What are Personal Liberty Laws?
100
Official start of the Civil war.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
Presidential order that freed slaves living in areas controlled by the CSA.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Name for the Union's military strategy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
Reason why Stephen Douglas supported popular sovereignty.
What is strengthen Democrats, unify nation, and most fair way to organize new states?
200
Network of secret routes and safe houses used by conductors, such as Harriet Tubman, to help African Americans escape slavery.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
Name two Southern advantages during the Civil War.
What are strong military leaders, strong cause, and fought defensive war?
200
Ways African Americans were discriminated in Union army.
What are separate regiments, could not rise above captain, paid less, and worked in garrison?
200
"Angel of the Battlefield" who created the Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
300
Border ruffians
Who are pro-slavery Missourians that traveled to Kansas to vote for Kansas to be slave state?
300
Document that stated slavery/involuntary servitude was not allowed in any territory the US gained from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso 1846?
300
Three parts of Anaconda Plan.
What are blockade the South, split Confederacy in two at MI River, and take Richmond, VA?
300
Reason President Lincoln expanded his power during the Civil War.
What is national security?
300
Money taken from citizen’s paychecks to help fund the national government.
What is an income tax?
400
According to Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, Congress could not forbid slavery because…
What is slaves were property protected by the Constitution (5th Amendment)?
400
Political idea during the Civil War that allowed a state’s citizens to vote whether their state would be free or slave.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
Significance of the Battle of Antietam.
What is McClellan aggressive (Union victory), McClellan fired, bloodiest single-day in US history, and victory needed to announce E.P.?
400
Major downside to economic prosperity in Union during the Civil War?
What is corrupt business practices?
400
Union military commander who was fired by Lincoln for having the case of the “slows.”
Who is George McClellan?
500
Slave revolt led by John Brown to capture weapons arsenal in West Virginia.
What is Harper's Ferry?
500
Idea established by Stephen A. Douglas that said slavery cannot exist if it was not supported by local police regulations/laws.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
500
Significance of the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is major turning point for Union, Lee could not replace large casualties, and Lee would never invade the North again?
500
Theater President Lincoln was shot.
What is Ford's Theatre?
500
Law that established a system of federally chartered banks, set requirements for loans, required bank inspections, and made banking safer in the United States.