Important People
This was Lincoln's VP who rose to power after Lincoln died, and made a mess of Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This was the belief that God mandated Americans to expand West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This group of people believed slavery was a moral issue and that it should be abolished.
Who are the abolitionists?
Victory at Antietam let Lincoln take this action without seeming petty.
What is declare the Emancipation Proclamation?
After Lincoln died, and especially after the 1866 Congress Elections, this branch of government had a 2/3 vote and overturned Johnson's veto, making Reconstruction Congressional.
What is the Legislative branch/Congress?
This Union General won Vicksburg.
Who is Grant?
California was temporarily called this during the war.
What is the California Bear Republic?
This person wanted slavery to end by any means necessary, and was very violent. He led a raid on Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
Describe the importance of Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
Gettysburg: South would never get closer to winning than it did there, and it was a turning point in favor of the Union
Vicksburg: Gave the Union control of the Mississippi, cutting off Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas; as well as proved Grant's worth by taking the "impenetrable" city
Give the names for the two types of people Southerners hated: the Northerners who profited from Reconstruction and poor farmers.
Who are Carpetbaggers and Scalawags?
This general led troops to Mexico City during the war, and is viewed as the best general of the 1800s.
Who is Winfield Scott?
The US stupidly brought his person out of exile to Mexico during the war, but he betrayed them.
Who is Santa Anna?
Name the political party that wanted to halt the expansion of slavery for economic reasons.
Describe the 3 parts of Scott's Anaconda Plan and how they were achieved.
Take control of the Mississippi, done by Grant at Vicksburg
Blockade Southern ports, completed by Monitor in its face off with Merrimack
March on Richmond, done through Grant's war of attrition.
This group violently opposes Republicans and were White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs).
Who are the KKK?
This person used for his freedom after being taken to a free state, but was ruled as property by Taney.
Who is Dred Scott?
Lincoln proposed this resolution due to Polk's half-truths about how the Mexican-American war started.
What is the Spot Resolution?
This bill passed the House, but not the Senate, and would have prevent slavery from expanding. It made the South scared.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
List the 4 border states.
What are Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri?
These were used by Southern states to circumvent the 13th, and 14th amendments.
What are black codes?
This Union General ran against Lincoln in 1864 after being fired by Lincoln twice.
Who is McClellan
Name the 4 parts of Polk's plan after he became president in 1844.
1. Lower tariffs
2. Restore the Divorce Bill (no more national bank)
3. Get the Oregon border to what it is now after getting Britain to cede some territory
4. Get California from Mexico
This person beat up Sumner with a cane because Sumner was against slavery.
Who is Preston Brooks?
This Confederate general was shot by his own troops. Double points if you can name the battle he got his nickname from.
Who is "Stonewall" Jackson? What is the 1st Battle of Bull Run?
Describe and differentiate the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
13th: abolished slavery
14th: made everyone born in the US a citizen with equal legal protection
15th: made it so States couldn't deny voting based on race or previous servitude