Slavery Divides the Nation
Who helped slaves escape the South in large numbers? (Last and first)
Harriet Tubman
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What event triggered the Civil War?
Attack on Fort Sumter
What regiment was completely made up of African American soldiers?
54th Massachusetts Regiment
What was the first draft called, formed by the Union?
Conscription
Which vital Confederate general died after two victories?
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
On their way to take the Southern Capital, where were Grant and his men stopped?
Petersburg, Virginia
What gave territories the right to vote on slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
Explain the two goals of the Anaconda Plan.
Cut off southern ports, split the Confederacy (Miss. River)
Republican
What battle was the single bloodiest day in the Civil War?
Battle of Antietam
What two things did the Union introduce as a way to help pay for the war?
Income Tax and War bands
What two Confederate victories gives Lee the confidence to march into Union territory?
Battle of Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg
Which two Union Generals helped bring an end to the war with their strong leadership and ruthless style of warfare?
Grant and Sherman
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What was Douglas's view on Popular Sovereignty in his debate with Lincoln?
It was Constitutional
Who was the primary general of the Union and the Confederacy? (Need name and affiliation)
Grant/Union - Lee/Confederacy
What recent battle gave Lincoln the upper hand to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
Battle of Antietam
What made farmland available at a cheap cost?
Homestead Act
The defeat of what key fort/city led to the Confederacy being split?
Where and when does Lee surrender to Grant? you need city, state, and month/day/year
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
April 9, 1965
What did the Wilmot Proviso propose?
Slavery should be banned from all territory gained won from Mexico
Who led violent attacks against Southerners?
John Brown
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What often happened to captured African American soldiers?
Killed
Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus. What is it?
protects a person from being imprisoned without charges of specific charge
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
Who assassinated Lincoln? What day? you need month/day/year
John Wilkes Booth
April 14, 1865
What system did slaves use to escape the South?
Underground railroad
Which slave sued for his freedom, but later was ruled that slaves were not people, and therefore had no rights?
Dred Scott
Which state was responsible for attacking Fort Sumter?
South Carolina
What area did the Emancipation Proclamation free slaves in?
States still in rebellion against the Union
For every soldier that died in battle, how many died from disease?
Two
What strategy was used by Grant and Sherman at the end of the war?
What officially ended slavery in the United States?
Thirteenth Amendment
What admitted Cali. as a free state, gave territories popular sovereignty and enforced stricter fugitive slave laws?
Compromise of 1850
Know-Nothings were comprised of nativists. What were they against?
Immigrants/Immigration
What was the first state to secede?
South Carolina
What specific area was not affected by the Emancipation Proclamation?
Loyal Border states?
What did Lincoln pass, allowing women to oversee hospitals and sanitation?
US Sanitary Commission
Where did Grant decide to go after taking Vicksburg?
Richmond, Virginia
What early advantage of the Confederacy became a strong point for the Union?
Skilled military leadership