Civil War Battles and
Politics
Politics
Who was the abolitionist who wrote, Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
After what attempt at compromise (1854) did the North refuse to compromise again?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What year was Texas annexed in to the US?
What is 1845?
The Confederate General, Robert E. Lee lost this battle in the summer of 1863. It was the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle at Gettysburg?
This agreement, ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
What happened in 1859 that caused the Southern states to begin building up arms for defense against the Union?
What is John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry?
This compromise was devised by Illinois Senator, Stephen Douglas. It led to civilian fighting by 1856.
What is The Kansas - Nebraska Act?
The American president who annexed Texas in 1845.
Who is John Tyler?
Which Civil War battle split the South in half and caused Lincoln to make Ulysses S. Grant commander of the Union Army?
What is the battle at Vicksburg?
Which Reconstruction Plan included a 10% loyalty oath from states in rebellion + no amnesty for wealthy Southerners?
What is the Presidential Reconstruction plan?
What established that Congress couldn’t restrict slavery in US territories?
What was Dred Scott vs Sanford(1857)?
Which of the following is NOT a Henry Clay compromise?
Compromise Tariff of 1833
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
What was the major dispute between the US and Mexico that led the two into war in 1846?
What is the boundary dispute between Mexico (Nueces River) and the US (Rio Grande River)?
What battle (1864) began the implementation of “total war” against the Confederacy?
What is the battle at Atlanta?
Give two examples of ways that white Southerners resisted Congressional Reconstruction.
What is KKK, White League, Black Codes and/or interference with voting rights of freedman?
The ideology that the Constitution is a contract between the individual and the federal government was a belief held by which region of the US?
Who is the North?
What was the failed compromise proposed after Lincoln’s 1860 election?
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
Who was the future American President was a hero of the Mexican American war? He was pro expansion and pro-slavery.
Who is President Zachary Taylor?
General in the Mexican American war and devised the Union’s way strategy. His plan included a naval blockade called the “Anaconda Plan”.
Who is Winfield Scott?
Congress passed this act in 1867, which required the president to get consent from the Senate before he could remove his cabinet members, when this man was president.
What is the Tenure of Office Act and who is President Johnson?
What (failed) motion proposed that slavery be outlawed in US territories ceded in the Mexican-American?
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
In 1850, Congress agreed on a compromise designed to prevent southern succession. What were the five provisions of that agreement?
What is CA is a free state, popular sovereignty in NM and AZ, TX will be divided, slave trade outlawed in D.C. and the Fugitive Slave act?
This act was passed during the war to settle the west. The federal government gave away lands attained during Manifest Destiny.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?