The Issue of Slavery
What was The Wilmot Proviso?
The Wilmot Proviso was a significant proposal in U.S. history aimed at preventing the extension of slavery into territories acquired from Mexico after the Mexican-American War. Introduced by Democratic Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania. The proviso's failure to be enacted sparked intense national debate over the issue of slavery and led to the formation of the antislavery Republican Party in 1854.
What was the Confederacy?
the Confederate States of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the Union.
Where is known to have been the first place where the Civil War began?
Fort Sumter
What document was issued on January 1, 1863?
Emancipation Proclamation
Shortly after the fall of Fort Sumter, the federal government created the United States Sanitary Commission. What was its purpose?
to improve the hygienic conditions of army camps and to recruit and train nurses.
Why did California’s application for statehood cause an uproar?
Although most California voters opposed slavery, most of the state lay south of the Missouri Compromise line, and therefore legally should have been open to slavery.Although most California voters opposed slavery, most of the state lay south of the Missouri Compromise line, and therefore legally should have been open to slavery.
In 1856, an important legal question came before the Supreme Court. What was it?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Lincoln’s call for troops provoked a very different reaction in the states of the upper South. On April 17, ..................., unwilling to fight against other southern states, seceded—a terrible loss to the Union.
Virginia
What would become known as Cotton Diplomacy?
Cotton diplomacy was a strategy used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War to gain international support by coercing Great Britain and France to recognize the Confederacy. The strategy was based on the belief that the Confederacy's near monopoly on global cotton supplies would lead to diplomatic recognition and potential military intervention from cotton-dependent nations.
Who was Clara Barton?
Founder of the American Red Cross; she administered care to the Union soldiers during the American Civil War.
Abolitionists and free black activists helped slaves escape to freedom along a series of routes known as the......................................
The Underground Railroad
What was the event that culminated in the South's decision to secede from the union?
The election of Abraham Lincoln prompted the southern states to leave the Union.
Name three advances that brought a revolution in warfare.
- Ironclad Technology
- New Weapons
- New Strategies
Who accepted the Confederate surrender at Appomattox that ended the war?
General Robert E. Lee
What is the Thirteenth Amendment about?
an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1865, that has abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
Mention at least one Term from The Compromise of 1850
Who was John Brown and what happend on the night of October 16, 1859 in Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
While politicians debated the slavery issue, John Brown was studying the slave uprisings that had occurred in ancient Rome and on the French island of Haiti. He believed that the time was ripe for similar uprisings in the United States. Brown secretly obtained financial backing from several prominent northern abolitionists. On the night of October 16, 1859, he led a band of 21 men, black and white, into Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia). His aim was to seize the federal arsenal there, distribute the captured arms to slaves in the area, and start a general slave uprising.
Which event in 1862 was a major blow to the Confederacy.
The Capture of New Orleans
Why did emancipation also offer a strategic advantage in foreign policy?
Why did emancipation also offer a strategic advantage in foreign policy?
How did the Civil War affect U.S. politics and economics?
The war affirmed the Union's supremacy, led to the 14th Amendment's guarantee of civil rights, and resulted in the Republican Party's political dominance, while the South faced a long period of economic devastation and social hardship, eventually transitioning from slavery to sharecropping
“The colored men’s rights are less than those of a jackass. No man can take away a jackass without submitting the matter to twelve men in any part of this country. A black man may be carried away without any reference to a jury. It is only necessary to claim him, and that some villain should swear to his identity. There is more protection there for a horse, for a donkey, or anything, rather than a colored man.”
Who said this?
Frederick Douglass
quoted in Voices from the Civil War
Explain the different positions and arguments between Abraham Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln.
Douglas believed deeply in popular sovereignty, in allowing the residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery. Although he did not think that slavery was immoral, he did believe that it was a backward labor system unsuitable to prairie agriculture.
Lincoln, like many Free-Soilers, believed that slavery was immoral—a labor system based on greed.
Point out the Union's military strategies for conquering the South.
The Union, which had to conquer the South to win, devised a three-part plan: (1) the Union navy would blockade southern ports, so the South could neither export cotton nor import much-needed manufactured goods; (2) Union riverboats and armies would move down the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two; and (3) Union armies would capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia. Northern newspapers dubbed the strategy the Anaconda plan, after a huge snake that suffocates its victims in its coils.
What happened at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, in 1864?
A particularly gruesome massacre occurred at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, in 1864. Confederate troops under General Nathan Bedford Forrest killed over 200 African American prisoners and some whites, shooting the prisoners as they begged for their lives.
Who killed Lincoln?
The assassin, John Wilkes Booth—a 26-year-old actor and southern sympathizer