APUSH Period 5

The Civil War

100

The President during the Civil War period

Abraham Lincoln

200

The event that began the war in which South Carolina troops opened fire on a Union fort that had been sent supplies by Lincoln

Fort Sumter

300

The first attack on Confederate forces in the war in which 30,000 federal troops marched to attack the Confederate troops in Virginia. Confederacy prevailed

First Battle of Bull Run

400

The march of Union troops to Atlanta, a major Confederate railroad hub, that eventually made the Confederacy surrender

Sherman's March to the Sea

500

Which constitutional guarantee (says that citizens must be told why they are being arrested) did Abraham Lincoln suspend with his executive power during the Civil War to arrest 15k Confederate sympathizers

Habeus Corpus

Reconstruction

100

The amendment that formally abolished slavery in the United States

The 13th Amendment

200

Lincoln's plan for reconstruction that viewed southern secession as simply rebellion against the Union and leniently mandated that only 10% of voters from each state had to pledge loyalty to the US and every state had to agree to abolish slavery

Ten-Percent Plan

300

The party that presented a Reconstruction plan that was very heavy-handed towards the confederacy and required the majority of every states' voters to pledge loyalty to the US (was killed with a pocket veto by Lincoln)

The Radical Republicans

400

The amendment that formally established birthright citizenship for those formerly enslaved and said that Americans' civil rights could not be infringed upon by states

The 14th Amendment

500

The 1867 (6767676767) act that divided the South into 5 military districts and led to federal troops entering the South to ensure Reconstruction was being upheld in Southern states

Military Reconstruction Act

The Slavery Debates

100

The compromise by Henry Clay that aimed to combine the major proposals for how to deal with slavery in the US after the Mexican-American war

Compromise of 1850

200

The man who proposed expansion of slavery with no restrictions and viewed slavery as a "positive good"

John C. Calhoun

300

The antislavery movement that opposed slavery for economic reasons and suggested that slavery was a threat to free labor in the north

Free Soil Movement

400

A proposal for a structure that would allow each new states' citizens to vote on whether they want slavery or not

Popular Sovereignty

500

The raid led by an abolitionist leader, aiming to arm slaves in a rebellion against planters and southern leaders

John Brown's raid of Harper's Ferry

Mexican-American War

100

The conflict over the annexation of this Mexican territory (now US state) was a large cause of the war

Texas

200

The President of the United States during the Mexican-American war period

James K. Polk

300

The names of white Americans and Mexican Natives, respectively

Anglos and Tejanos

400

The three states that the U.S. gained from Mexico due to the war

California, New Mexico, Texas

500

A part of a federal funding bill that was added in by a Congressman (first name David) that mandated that slavery be banned in all land gained from the war

Wilmot Proviso

Election of 1860

100

The sole republican candidate and winner of the election of 1860

Abraham Lincoln

200

The phenomenon of southern states getting fed up with the federal opposition to the expansion of slavery and rebelling against the Union

Southern Secession

300

The first state to draft their articles of secession in 1860, claiming that the election was rigged.

South Carolina

400

The structure with which each political party solely represented a region of the United States (Republican=North, Democrat=South)

Sectional Parties

500

The sub-party that pushed John Bell as one of three democratic nominees and offered no solution to the issue of slavery

Constitutional Union Party