Misc Terms
What is nursing?
The next three major events following the beginning of siege of Vicksburg
What is the Battle of Gettysburg, the Union seizes the Miss. River, and the Gettysburg Address?
The two states that were established as a result of the Missouri Compromise
What are Maine and Missouri?
The geographic feature utilized as a supply line by the Confederates
What is the Mississippi River?
The reason many southerners were surprised by the election of President Lincoln (don't answer as a question)
His name hadn't appeared on the ballot in several of Southern states (Bonus if you know how many)
Something that is unable to be changed
What is unamendable?
Examples of conditions faced by confederate soldiers
What is inadequate clothing, no shoes, lack of shelter, basic necessities and resources?
The act passed that repealed the Missouri Compromise
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The land here was best for growing cash crops such as cotton and tobacco
Kansas and Nebraska exercised this right when establishing whether or not they would allow slavery in the region
What is popular sovereignty?
The political party whose goal was to prevent the spread of slavery into the west
What is the Republican Party?
The reason the Confederacy began drafting soldiers from ages 17-50
What is increased death toll?
The compromise passed that was an agreement that California would join the Union if the strict fugitive slave law was passed and upheld
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The area of the United States with plains that were best for growing food crops (+100 for specificity)
What is the Northern United States? (Northern prairie plains from southern Minnesota east to Ohio)
The way and reason John Brown behaved the way that he did during his sentencing
What is dignified and to attract national attention?
General Grant's actions and the effect it had on southern citizens
What is total war and deprivation of the south?
What was shown with the incident involving officers from Georgia claiming only they can command Georgian troops
What are organizational struggles?
Declaration made by Abraham Lincoln that freed slaves in the Confederate territories
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Advantages that the Confederacy had over the Union
What is defending the land and knowledge of the terrain?
The difference between the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850
What is citizen obligation to participate, fines, and jail time?
The reason President Lincoln felt that according to the constitution, he had the right to suspend habeas corpus
What is for reasons of public safety in times of invasion or rebellion?
The name of the Virginia town and the reason for which the Confederates surrendered (not as a question)
Appomatox Court House and they were trapped by Union fighters
The purpose of the Wilmot Proviso (Bonus for how it relates to Lincoln's ideology)
What is the prevention of the spread of slavery into the west?
The states that were loyal to the Union, but permitted slavery
What are Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia?
Who is John Brown, Dred Scott, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Abraham Lincoln etc.?