Civil War
On July 21, 1861, Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
What was First Battle of Bull Run?
The ________ of 1864 was a bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
___________ was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who was Marriet Beecher Stowe?
The ______ Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections as well as in some state elections. Its main purpose was to oppose the expansion of slavery into the Western territories, arguing that free men on free soil constituted a morally and economically superior system to slavery
What was the Free Soil Party?
In August 1862, _______ said "If I could save the union without freeing any slaves I would"
A U.S. Army engineer, railroad president, and politician who served as a major general during the Civil War. They would later serve as the governor of New Jersey.
Who is George McClellan?
The _______ were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 in the United States after the American Civil War with the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
What were the Black Codes?
________ was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
________ consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
The _______ was a diplomatic incident in 1861 during the American Civil War that threatened war between the United States and the United Kingdom. The U.S. Navy illegally captured two Confederate diplomats from a British ship. The UK protested vigorously. The United States ended the incident by releasing the diplomats.
What was the Trent Affair?
A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at November 19, 1863, the dedication of Soldier’s National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
What was The Gettysburg Address?
The ________ to the U.S. Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
An American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. He first gained attention when he led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas crisis of 1856
Who was John Brown?
The _________ was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states,
In order to bring financial stability to the nation and fund the war effort, the _______ of 1863 was introduced in the Senate in January of that year. A Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, Thaddeus Stevens opposed the act.
What was the National Bank Act?
On September 22, soon after the Union victory at Antietam, he issued a preliminary ___________, declaring that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The _________ were men’s clubs established during the American Civil War, to promote loyalty to the Union of the United States of America, the policies of newly elected 16th President Abraham Lincoln and to combat what they believed to be the treasonous words and actions of anti-war, antiblack "Copperhead" Democrats.
What were the Union Leagues?
The __________ were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
What was the Lincoln–Douglas debates?
Fillmore send _____ to open Japan to commerce with "gunboat diplomacy" in 1852
Who was Matthew Calbraith Perry?
An Act of Congress that authorized the president of the United States to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in response to the American Civil War and provided for the release of political prisoners. It began in the House of Representatives as an indemnity bill, introduced on December 5, 1862.
What was The Habeas Corpus Suspension Act?
In the 1860s, the ___________, also known as Peace Democrats, was a faction of Democrats in the Northern United States of the Union who opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates.
Who were the Copperheads?
The ________ in 1867 marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America and became an important step in the United States rise as a great power in the Asia-Pacific region.
What was the Purchase of Alaska?
________, commonly referred to as the South, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865. __________ was originally formed by seven secessionist slave-holding states, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas
What was the Confederate States of America?
The ________ Act was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy". It required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate
The ________, enacted during the Civil War in 1862, provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
What was the Homestead Act?