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Civil War Era Review
Quiz Prep for the Civil War unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This act of congress in 1820 determined that no new slave states north of the 36 N line of latitude could be added to the United States. | Missouri Compromise |
| This act of congress revoked the previous ruling and determined that new states could decide for themselves whether slavery would be legal or not in their state. | Kansas Nebraska Act |
| This supreme court case ruled that slaves were not citizens and that states could not prohibit slavery as it was a implied right in the constitution. | Dred Scott v Sanford |
| This siege of a fort on the Mississippi River gave control of the river to the Union and separated the Confederacy in half. | Vicksburg |
| This was the largest and northernmost battle of the Civil War and served as the turning point after which the North began to take control of the conflict | Gettysburg |
| This senator ran against Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860 and argued for states' rights to decide for themselves on the issue of slavery | Stephen Douglas |
| This former senator was president of the Confederate States of America | Jefferson Davis |
| This war between the U.S. and it's southern neighbor from 1846-1848 ended in the treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo and developed much of the experience of generals who fought in the Civil War | Mexican American War |
| This state won a revolution from Mexico and became it's own republic before joining the United States in 1845. | Texas |
| The states of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington were bought from the British by this president | James K Polk |
| After defeating Mexico by capturing Mexico City, the United States paid 15 million dollars (and forgave Mexican debt) for the territory that became these three states. | California, New Mexico, Arizona |
| Slavery became profitable again and experienced a resurgence because of this invention by Eli Whitney in 1794 | Cotton Gin |
| Name 3 inventions during the Civil War era that changed the world | Railroad, Telegraph, Interchangeable Parts |
| This actor shot and killed Abraham Lincoln while attending a play in 1865 | John Wilkes Booth |
| This president founded the modern democratic party, dissolved the national bank and relocated most of the remaining native Americans in the South to the Oklahoma territory. | Andrew Jackson |
| This confederate bombardment in South Carolina marked the beginning of the Civil War | Fort Sumter |
| This general and later president was the leader of the Union in the final years of the Civil War | Ulysses S. Grant |
| This president, who had served as a general in the War of 1812, died of pneumonia only 30 days after his inauguration. | William Henry Harrison |
| This president was the first vice president to take over for a president in U.S. history | John Tyler |
| This president took over for Zachary Taylor after Taylor died in office. | Millard Fillmore |
| This president developed the idea behind the democratic party and was it’s second president, but suffered from an economic collapse largely caused by his predecessor | Martin Van Buren |
| This president was largely depressed and absent due to the death of his son, further exacerbating the tensions that led to the Civil War | Franklin Pierce |
| This president, a former ambassador to England, was largely content to see the south secede and did little to discourage the Civil War | James Buchanan |
| The Trail of Tears is the common name for the removal of this tribe from their native lands to reservations in Oklahoma under Andrew Jackson, in violation of Supreme Court rulings | The Cherokee |
| This highly successful southern general surrendered the Confederate army at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865 | Robert E. Lee |
| This Executive order, signed in 1863, freed slaves living in the Confederacy as a wartime measure to weaken the south | The Emancipation Proclamation |
| This constitutional act, passed through Congress in 1865 just before the end of the War, abolished slavery in the United States. | The 13th Amendment |
| This lawyer gained national prominence for his anti-slavery arguments in his debates with Stephen Douglas in the Illinois Senate election. | Abraham Lincoln |
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