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Causes of the Civil War
Vast Vocab
MISC X2
100

How did the Missouri Compromise impact Missouri and Maine?

Missouri becomes a slave state, Maine becomes a free state.

100

What is the significance of the battle of antitiem?

first major battle in the north

100
What is the significance of Scott v. Sanford?
Makes popular sovereignty and Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional, makes slavery legal.
100

This term refers to the division into different regions of the United States and is a major cause of the Civil War.

What is sectionalism?

100
What was the belief that America had the God given right to expand to the Pacific Ocean? 

Manifest Destiny 

200
What state becomes a free state as a result of the Compromise of 1850?
California
200
Which president is elected in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
200
What was the political significance of the Kansas-Nebraska act?
Proved popular sovereignty is a failure and the division between the North and South.
200

what is the significance of the battle of vicksburg?

they fought over the Mississippi river this river promotated trade and transportation 

200

Which was the first state to secede after Lincoln's election? 

South Carolina 

300

What is manifest destiny? What did we build?

God told us to move west using the bible we hurt the Indians

railroads and barbed wire

300

What was the most important thing we built during this time and why?

railroads
300
How did the South and North feel about John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?
The South believed he was a terrorist while the North viewed him as a martyr.
300

This concept allows for rule by the people, when the population is able to determine a political issue through a popular vote.

What is popular sovereignty?

300

What is william T sherman known for?

Shermans march to the sea atlanta to savannah 

he picked up the railroad and burned atlanta down

400

What act repealed the Missouri Compromise and created Popular Sovereignty for deciding if a state is free or slave? 

Kansas-Nebraska Act

400
Which president promoted manifest destiny by annexing Texas and Oregon?
James Polk
400
How did the presidential election of 1860 impact the United States?
South Carolina votes to secede from the US and other states follow.
400

why did lincoln suspended habius corpus?

to send the confederates and their supporters to jail. 
400

Who owned the Oregon Territory before James Polk was president? 

Great Britain 

500

What are 4 Provisions of the Compromise of 1850?

Fugitive Slave Act, California admitted Free, No slave trade in DC, and New Mexico's Borders created

500

what was the purpose of gettysburg address?

to preserve the union

500

What is the difference between congressional reconstruction and presidential?

Congress wanted to punish the south

The president was lenient on the south

500

What ended reconstruction? Who did it?

Rutherford Hayes- he will remove the troops from the south The great betrayal

500

When pro & anti slave believers moved into Kansas to sway the vote, what event occurred between the two groups? 

Bleeding Kansas