History 1
By 1830 what was the most important issue for social reformers?
Anti Slavery movement
Who were two of the leading transcendentalist?
Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you choose not to vote, what is that?
abstain
The ruling on the Dred Scott case outraged who?
opponents of slavery
What type of ship was the Merrimack that the Confederates had?
Ironclad
Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm
What movement did Lucretia Mott help organize?
Women's rights movement
Who was a violent opponent to slavery and caused problems in Kansas?
John Brown
Ulysses S. Grant
By capturing the Mississippi river
Who was the most famous African American abolitionist in the north?
Frederick Douglass
Who was a famous transcendentalist author?
Henry David Thoreau
Slavery
General Grant spoke highly of which group of soldiers?
African American
What was the capital of the confederacy?
Richmond, VA (Virginia)
Who was the most famous conductor on the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What caused the north to get really angry (pre-Civil War)?
Who was the biggest proponent to states rights?
John C. Calhoun
Which two countries during the Civil War was the South trying to get to come to their aid?
Britain and France
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson
Where did African American leaders hold an anti slavery convention?
Philadelphia
Which president was responsible for annexing Texas?
James K Polk
The south was happy when what happened?
The Supreme Court ruled on the Dred Scott case saying that restricting slavery was unconstitutional.
Who was the top nurse for the Union army and convinced them to let women serve as nurses?
Dorothea Dix
Frederick Douglass and Horace Greeley urged Lincoln to do what?
Make the war about slavery