17 Sectional Struggle
The Compromise of 1850 and the ____ Act were a source of increased sectional conflict in the antebellum years
Kansas-Nebraska
Lincoln belonged to this political party when he was in Congress.
Whig
Location of the first shots of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
He made "Georgia Howl" due to his military campaign from Atlanta to Savannah.
W. T. Sherman
16th US President & his political party.
Lincoln/Republican
A major goal of Commodore ___ expedition was to expand American trade into a country that had traditionally isolated itself from most foreign powers.
Matthew Perry's
Congressman beaten by a cane over his anti-slavery stance.
Senator Charles Sumner
Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, West Virginia
Maryland.
Name given to the strategy that most led to the Union's victory over the South that included a blockade of the South, control of the Mississippi River, & the taking of Richmond.
Anaconda Plan
18th US President & his political party.
Grant/Republican
Frederick Douglass was most influenced by what major social movement of the time?
Second Great Awakening
An unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War.
Wilmot
A series of draft riots occurred in this city in 1863.
New York
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation most directly followed what major battle?
Battle of Antietam
15th US President & his political party.
Buchanan/Democrat
The Kansas-Nebraska Act mandated that the issue of slavery be determined in the new U.S. territories by what means?
Popular sovereignty
In his opinion on the case Dred Scott v. Sandford, Chief Justice ___ upheld the sentiment above by stating that Congress had no right to regulate slavery in United States territories
Roger Taney
What 1798 resolutions did southern states use to justify seceding from the United States?
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Lincoln's main opponent in the 1864 election.
George B. McClellan
12th US President & his political party.
Taylor/Whig
One of the more controversial effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was that it effectively ended
the Missouri Compromise
A position on slavery in U.S. territories that was developed by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas and presented during the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 in defiance of the Supreme Court.
Freeport Doctrine
His Cornerstone Speech discussed the purpose of the southern secession including "States' Rights" & slavery.
Alexander Stevens
Union general at the Battle of Gettysburg.
George G. Meade
14th US President & his political party.
Pierce/Democrat