This is the one thing that was an advantage for the South before the Civil War began.
What are military leaders?
100
The Mexican war provided military leaders experience for this future war.
What is the Civil War?
100
According to this, the people of any territory would determine whether or not it would be a slave state or free state.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
100
The basic strategy of this general was direct and attack the enemy on all fronts.
What is Ulysses S. Grant?
100
He won the 1856 election.
Who is James Buchanan?
200
One of the reasons that King Cotton failed was increased production in these two countries.
What are India and Egypt?
200
The end of the Mexican War brought a rush of new settlers into this territory.
What is California?
200
This legislation would ban slavery from all of the territories ceded to the United States from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
200
The capture of this city was probably the decisive victory that ensure that Lincoln won the election of 1864.
What is Atlanta?
200
The election of 1852 was significant in that it marked the end of this party.
What is the Whig party?
300
This person had a tough job being the first president of the South.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
The boundary dispute by the Americans claimed that Texas extended all the way to this river.
What is the Rio Grande?
300
This was opposed by Lincoln and based on the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Crittendon Compromise?
300
Lee's decision to invade the North in order to strengthen the Northern peace movement led to this battle.
What is Gettysburg?
300
The central platform of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election.
What is nativism?
400
The Southern idea of government was undermined by the very thing they were trying to protect.
What is states rights?
400
This president may have created the right conditions to create a war with Mexico.
Who is James Polk?
400
This guaranteed citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
400
This coupled with Gettysburg meant that any foreign aid was hopelessly lost.
What is Vicksburg?
400
Abraham Lincoln was nominated over this man because he made fewer enemies than him.
Who is William Seward?
500
This event convinced the South that Cotton was truly king.
What is the Panic of 1857?
500
This treaty included a $15,000,000 payment for the United States to acquire northern Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
500
This bill created controversy and illustrated the deep difference between President Lincoln and congress for the readmission of Confederate States in the Union.
What is the Wade-Davis bill?
500
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after the Union victory here.
What is Antietam?
500
Andrew Johnson was charge with the violation of the Tenure of Office Act in order to impeach him because he dismissed this man.