Important People
The Whigs selected this person in 1848 who ended up winning.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
This attempted to ban slavery in the New Mexico Territory, but failed.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This was the Confederacy's main strategy in the Civil War.
What was the Confederacy's main goal?
This age group played a crucial part in the war effort?
Who are teenagers?
This Compromise separated Free and Slave States.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
When you are in a protected position, it's called this.
What is entrenched?
This person countered the Wilmot Proviso.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
The Fugitive Slave Act resulted in this in the North.
What is anger? >:(
This was the result of the Battle of Shiloh.
What was a narrow Union victory?
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment served with this key feeling.
What is distinction?
These people ignored slavery in the 1848 Presidential Election.
Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass.
What is abstain?
The writer of "Civil Disobedience." Also claimed if you don't like a law, don't follow it.
This person was a violent opponent to slavery.
Who was John Brown?
Sherman's March to the Sea was won by this group.
Who was the Union?
This arose from the Lincoln-Douglass Debates.
What was the Freeport Doctrine?
James Polk and the Democrats wanted to annex this state to expand slavery.
Where is Texas?
General Grant allowed this group of people to join.
This Supreme Court Justice wrote the Dred Scott Decision.
Who was Roger B. Taney?
The primary topic of the Lincoln-Douglass Debates.
What was slavery?
Confederate soldiers were often times called this.
What are Rebels?
These people refused to give in to common laws.
Who was the Resistance?
This person encouraged people to practice civil disobedience to unjust laws.
Who was Henry David Thoreau?
This person stood up for the rights of women to work as nurses during the Civil War.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
Franklin Pierce held this office in 1853.
What is President?
This act led to many Americans to become angry and resist.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
This northern general would only accept free, or unconditional, surrender.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
These people are killed or injured in warfare.
What are causalities'?
Roger Taney called enslaved people this in the Dred Scott decision.
What is "property of this kind"?
This damaged ship was rebuilt by the Confederacy and covered with iron.
What was the Merrimack?
This person believed neither Congress NOR local governments had the authority to ban slavery from a territory.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
Before the Civil War, this factory increased loyalty over the nation.
What was sectionalism?
The South was supported by these two countries.
Who were Britain and France?
This abolitionist, along with Fredrick Douglass, told Lincoln to make slavery a priority.
Who was Horace Greenley?
This made the South happy with Scott v. Standford.
What was restricting slavery becoming unconstitutional?
The capital of the Confederacy.
What was Richmond, Virginia?
These two generals were key in the Confederacy's success.
Who were Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson?
This state became important because it bordered Washington D.C.
What was Maryland?
The reason the Union tried to take over the Mississippi during the Civil War.
What is prevent supplies from reaching the Eastern Confederacy?
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment became famous because of this.
What is being fully an African American regiment?
This was Lincoln's call to free enslaved people.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The deadliest battle of the Civil War.
What was Gettysburg?