Political Parties
Political party of the 1850s that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant
Know-Nothing Party
Britain and the Union about got into conflict after Union generals arrested two Confederate diplomats on the British ship, ____. This also almost pulled Britain out of neutrality during the war.
Trent
A draft that would force certain parts of the population to enlist in the army was known as ____.
Conscription
This women founded the American Red Cross after her involvement in the Franco-Prussian War.
Clara Barton
Considered by many historians as the turning point of the Civil War where the north takes a clear advantage.
Battle of Gettysburg
A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery
Free-Soil Party
Stephen Douglass argued that ____ or free will of the people to decide whether their state were to be a free or slave state, would ultimately wipe out slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
Many northern states passed ____, which gave runaway, captured slaves a speedy public trial by jury.
Personal Liberty Laws
The man who assassinated President Lincoln in Ford's Theater.
John Wilkes Booth
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at ____.
Fort Sumter
This issue was the ultimate factor in splitting the Whig Party.
Slavery
Henry Clay proposed the ____, which hoped would settle “all questions in controversy between the free and slave states”.
Compromise of 1850
The ____ “freed” slaves, but in reality was only a military strategy to allow African Americans to enlist with the Union Army.
Emancipation Proclamation
The hero at the battle of Vicksburg, ___ was a very prestigious military general who helped change the course of the war in favor of the Union. His initials later became known as "Unconditional Surrender".
Ulysses S. Grant
The South's first major victory in the Civil War was the ____.
Battle of Bull Run
This President was the national candidate for the Democrats in the 1852 and signed into effect the Nebraska-Kansas Act.
Franklin Pierce
Created by David Wilmot, ___ guaranteed that the newly acquired territories of New Mexico, California, and Utah would enter the Union as free states.
Wilmot Proviso
The ____ required that any runaway slave that was captured be returned to their owners in the South.
Fugitive Slave Act
___ was appointed by Ulysses S. Grant as commander of the military division of the Mississippi.
William Tecumseh Sherman
During the Civil War, the Union proposed the ____ to "constrict" the South into surrendering during the war.
Anaconda Plan
A new party that emerged, the ___ consisted of Northern Whigs and Southern Anti-Slavery Democrats.
Republican Party
President Lincoln instituted ____ which required criminals to be brought to trial to see what crimes they did indeed commit.
Habeas Corpus
The location of the Confederate States capital.
Richmond, VA
Publisher of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which illustrated slavery as a moral issue to the country.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The location of the South's surrender was ____.
Appomattox Court House