One of the terms of the Compromise of 1850 that said it was the right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
The Union's three part plan to defeat the Confederacy quickly was called this.
1. blockade Southern ports
2. use MS. river to split Confederacy
3. capture Richmond
What is the Anaconda Plan?
100
She wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin that caused people in the north to become more sympathetic to the abolition movement.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
She was called the "angel of the battlefield" and she started the American Red Cross after the Civil War.
Who is Clara Barton?
200
He was a fierce abolitionist responsible for Bleeding Kansas and the raid on Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
200
Passed by Congress, it forced northerners to assist the south in capturing and returning fugitive slaves and made it illegal with harsh punishments to assist fugitive slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
He was the President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
This is the place where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
300
The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
What is secession?
300
The network of people who assisted slaves in their journey to freedom providing: food, safe houses, and direction.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
He filed a lawsuit to gain his freedom after he spent many years living in a free state and his owner died.
Who is Dred Scott?
300
This battle was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War causing more casualties than the entire Mexican American War.
What is Antietam?
400
Slave states that remained in the Union were called this. Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, and Kentucky
What are Border States?
400
A forced draft on both sides of the Civil War was called this.
What is conscription?
400
He was worthless in civilian life, but a brilliant Union General who would become the 18th President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
The very first shots of the Civil War took place here.
What is Ft. Sumter?
500
Fear of immigrants or favoring of native-born Americans is called this.
What is nativism?
500
This piece of legislation was supposed to settle the question of slavery once and for all and was proposed by Henry Clay.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
He was a Union General who was responsible for modern warfare and the technique of total destruction during the Civil War.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
500
He was called the "Great Compromiser" because he was responsible for negotiating 3 national crises in American history.