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Congressional Acts & Compromises
Vocabulary
Important Figures
Battles
Miscellaneous
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Introduced by Henry Clay to address the growing tensions between Missouri entering as a slave state and established the 36/30 line which admitted Missouri as a free state and Maine as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise
100
A method authorized by the federal government which gave the territory's citizens the right to vote on political issues (slavery)
What is popular sovereignty
100
American politician from South Carolina that believed states had individual rights and that states entered the union willingly and can secede from the union at will.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
100
First major battle of the Civil War.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
100
States whose loyalties remained neutral at the beginning of the
What are border states?
200
Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850. It stated that all runaway slaves would have to return to their masters.
What is Fugitive Slave Act
200
Federal fort located in South Carolina that was seized by Confederate General Beauregard that triggered the start of the American Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
200
Extreme abolitionist who raided the Harper's Ferry federal arsenal in order to arm enslaved African Americans and inspire a revolt.
What is Nat Turner?
200
The battle that was the turning point of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
200
Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
What is habeas corpus?
300
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise act and allowed white male settlers to determine by popular sovereignty, whether a state will be free or slave state.
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
Book published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe that outlined the cruelty of slave trade and showed how slave families were separated by slave owners.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
300
President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
This was the deadliest one day battle in American History.
What is Antietam?
300
This proclamation initially freed zero slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
Proposed by Henry Clay, comprised of 4 separate major sections including banning slave trade in DC, allowed Utah and New Mexico territory to decide slavery by popular sovereignty, California would be entered as free state, and Texas gives it's claim to New Mexico.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
Decision made by US Supreme Court that ruled African Americans were not citizens and were not aloud to sue in the US courts
What is Dred-Scott Decision?
400
General who led the Confederate Troops.
Who is General Lee?
400
This battle secured the Mississippi River for the North.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
400
This famous battle took place between two ironclads. It changed naval warfare forever.
What is Monitor v Merrimack?
500
This bill banned slavery in any territory acquired for Mexico during the Mexican American War
What is Wilmot Proviso?
500
The place where the Southern surrender took place.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
500
Union General who was fired by President Lincoln twice for being slow to act.
Who was George McClellan?
500
This general took the stance of total warfare and burned half of Georgia on his march to the sea.
Who is General Tecumseh Sherman?
500
This woman became the "Angel of the Battlefield" because of her job with the Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?