Compromise of 1850
According to the Compromise of 1850 this state would be admitted as a free state
California
The fighting that broke out in Kansas following an unfair election regarding slavery.
“Bleeding Kansas”
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas stated the best way to settle the issue of slavery was
popular sovereignty
How many states made up the Confederate States of America?
11
Grant led the Union Army to victory in this Tennessee battle even though he lost 2,000 more men in the battle.
Shiloh
African-Americans in the North lived in fear they would be accused of being runaway slaves, captured and put into slavery.
Fugitive Slave Act
After the caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brook's in the Senate:
Brook's supporters bought him a new cane inscribed "Hit Him Again"
January 1, 1863- The Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in the
rebellious Southern states
23, 24 (West Virginia)
He missed the chance to finish off the crippled Southern Army after the Battle of Antietam.
George McClellan
Under the Fugitive Slave Act, federal commissioners were paid:
$5 if the defendant was released.
$10 if the defendant was turned over to the slaveholder
A U.S. arsenal that John Brown and his sons tried to attack
Harpers Ferry
How many candidates were there in the 1860 presidential election?
4
Who was the first state to Secede?
South Carolina
This General helped lead the Confederacy to victory at the First Battle at Bull Run?
"Stonewall" Jackson
The Compromise of 1850 abolished slavery in this city:
Washington D.C.
Sued for his freedom and lost in a Supreme Court case led by Roger Taney. The ruling would protect slavery using the U.S. Constitution.
Dred Scott
Complete the following quote from Lincoln’s 1 st Inaugural Address: “We are not . . .
enemies, but friends.”
Robert E. Lee's home state was?
Virginia
The South's attack on ____________________ on April 12, 1861 was the beginning of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
The Compromise of 1850 gave the South:
A stronger law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves
Slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty in Kansas.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
One of Lincoln's hidden weapons of the war was:
Train, Telegraph
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
After one day of fighting this battle became the bloodiest day in American History
Antietam