The Road to Civil War
This proposal, which aimed to prohibit slavery in territories gained from Mexico, passed the House but not the Senate.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The bloodiest single day of battle in the Civil War took place here.
What is Antietam?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These migrants came to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s to escape famine, war, and poverty.
Who are the Irish?
Lincoln’s proposal to create military districts in the South aimed to prevent this.
What is anarchy and disorder?
The enforcement of this 1850 law caused unexpected public outrage and led to the passage of personal liberty laws in Northern states.
This strategy, nicknamed the "Anaconda Plan," aimed to suffocate the South by blockading ports and controlling the Mississippi River.
What is the Union war strategy?
Under President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan, Confederate states were readmitted when they ratified this amendment.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Tales of gold in California and violence from the Opium Wars drove this group to emigrate to the U.S. in the mid-1800s.
Who are Chinese migrants?
This was the last major advance by the South in the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Under the Compromise of 1850, the issue of slavery in these two territories would be decided by popular sovereignty.
What are Utah and New Mexico?
This document, issued after the Battle of Antietam, declared that slaves in rebelling states were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This federal legislation made it a crime to deny the right to vote based on race.
What is the Enforcement Act of 1870?
Before 1840, the U.S. population consisted primarily of these three main ethnic groups.
What are Europeans, Africans, and American Indians?
During debates with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln focused on this key issue.
What is the territorial expansion of slavery?
This senator's speech supporting the Compromise of 1850 destroyed his reputation as an abolitionist.
Who is Daniel Webster?
The Union general in charge of the war effort in the West, later known for leading the entire Union army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The first African American elected to the U.S. Senate.
Who is Hiram Revels?
This convention in 1848 marked the first organized push for women’s rights in the United States.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The Panic of 1857 was more severe in this region of the United States.
What is the North?
This controversial law's passage led to the formation of the Republican Party.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Lincoln believed this border state was most critical to the Union's war strategy.
What is Kentucky?
This term describes laws enacted in the South during Reconstruction to enforce racial segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This was NOT a cause of Irish immigration to the U.S. after 1840.
What are wars in Ireland?
The "march to the sea" by Union forces is best known for this type of destruction.
What is total destruction of all property?