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This Mexican-American War veteran served only 32 days as president of the United States and served as the first elected president of the Whig Party.
Who was William Henry Harrison?
Southern states began seceding as a result of the election of this president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The American Civil War started with this battle.
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter
The removal of federal troops in the South and the election of Rutherford B. Hayes came from this agreement.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
The belief of a divine will for the US to expand westward to the edge of the continent.
What was Manifest Destiny?
Known as the "father" of popular sovereignty, an ideology that fueled the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who was Lewis Cass?
This state was the first to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This battle put an end to General Robert E. Lee's plan to invade the north.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg
The organization that was intended to support the success of freed slaves after the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
This bill would have forbidden slavery in any new territories acquired from Mexico after the Mexican-American War. Was not passed.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Supreme Court Justice who made the controversial ruling in Dred Scott vs. Sandford that overturned the Missouri Compromise.
Who was Roger Taney?
US congressman who became infamous for his violent use of his cane on the senate floor.
Who is Preston Brooks?
Created by Winfield Scott early in the war, this military plan called for the strangulation of the South by Union naval and land forces.
What was the Anaconda Plan
The Supreme Court decided here that military tribunals cannot try civilians, even in wartime.
What was Ex Parte Milligan?
The three senators known as the Great Triumvirate.
Who were Henry Clay, John C Calhoun, and Daniel Webster?
Author of The Impending Crisis of the South, which warned of the damage caused by slavery to the South's economy.
Who was Hinton Helper?
The first violent conflict over slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This battle provided the necessary Union victory to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was the Battle of Antietam
A plan for Reconstruction that required 50% of all former Confederate voters to pledge their loyalty to the Union.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
Proposed pro-slavery constitution for Kansas that protected slaveholders.
What was the Lecompton Constitution?
Was the last member of the Whig party to enter the presidential office and played a crucial role in creating the Compromise of 1850.
Who was Millard Fillmore?
An economic policy which led to increased sectionalism by supporting northern manufacturing.
What is the Morrill Tariff Act (Tariff of 1861)?
This was an early battle in the Western theater of the Civil War, fought from April 6-7, 1862 in southwestern Tennessee. It was also the Confederacy's best chance at keeping the Union out of Mississippi.
What was the Battle of Shiloh
A state of financial ruin that plagued the nation due to overspeculation and poor loans and drove it into two decades of financial stagnation.
Stephen Douglas' response to Lincoln's challenge in the Lincoln-Douglas debates
What was the Freeport Doctrine?