From Compromise to Crisis
This act, originally proposed by Henry Clay, but later modified by Stephen Douglas and broken down into smaller parts, would:
1. Allow for popular soreignty regarding slavery in new territories
2. Outlawed the SALE of slaves in Washington D.C.
3. Allowed California to enter as a Free state
4. Had Texas give up some of its land in exchange for the federal government taking over it's debts
5. Pass a much stronger Fugitive Slave Act
What is the compromise of 1850?/ 1850 Compromise?
This Act was an attempt by the Federal government to create a transcontinental railroad.
What is the Pacific Railroad Act?
This group formed primarily from the WHiGs and anti-slavery Democrats.
Who are the Republicans?
This Fort, owned and operated by the Union, was attacked by the Confederacy starting the Civil war.
What is Fort Sumter?
During this event Lincoln said "I have no intention nor any legal right to abolish slavery."
What is the Lincoln-Douglas debate/First Inagural speech?
This idea would allow territories to vote for whether or not they wanted to have slavery in their territory or not.
What is popular sovereignty?
This act promised 160 Acres of land to anyone who would move to the western territories and improve the land.
What is the Homestead Act?
This man wound up being the Union's Top General after a string of lackluster generals.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This was the first true battle of the Civil War. Fought in Virgina, civilians brought picnic baskets to watch the fighting.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
This wartime declaration issued by President Lincoln freed all slaves held in Confederate territory and allowed able body African American Men to join the Army and Navy of the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclimation
This Act Creates two territories North of the Missouri Compromise line open to popular Sovereignty and causes the tension between North and South to reach extreme levels as people move to the territories to vote for or against slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What is the thirteenth Amendment?
This man was the President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This battle is one of the most well known of the Civil War and led to Lincoln's most famous speech.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This is the name of Abraham Lincoln's Assassin.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This was the nick-name given to one of the newly created territories due to all the conflict between pro and anti-slavery groups that moved to the territory.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This Act established the first broad income tax in the U.S. to help fund the Civil War.
This group of northern Democrats accused Lincoln of being a tyrant after he suspended Habaes Corpus.
Who are the copperheads?
This battle in 1862 is decisively won by Confederate general Robert E. Lee, much like the first time this battle was fought.
What is the Second Battle of Bull Run?
This opinion on reconstruction, given during Lincoln's final speech, is most likely what drove his assassin to kill him instead of merely kidnapping him.
What is black suffrage?
This event included the near beating to death of senator with a cane over an insult and an argument over slavery.
What is the caning of Senator Sumner?
This Act, vetoed by Lincoln, proposed that a majority of a rebellious states population would need to take an oath of loyalty in order to rejoin the Union.
What is the Wade-Davis Act?
This General ordered his troops to march and destroy all Confederate infrastructure in an attempt to reduce their ability to wage war.
Who is general Sherman?
This is the place where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is the Appomattax Couthouse?
These words were said to have been yelled by Abraham Lincoln's Assassin after he jumped onto the stage from the balcony.
What is "Sic Semper Tyrranis"?