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OC Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When 5000 "border ruffians" swarmed into Kansas and voted illegally in Kansas' election for a territorial legislature- this was called___________? | "Bleeding Kansas" and Kansas- Nebraska Act(1854) |
| The government created a section specifically for the arresting and returning slaves. This act was called? | The Fugitive Slave Law/ Act |
| President Lincoln gave a speech about remembering those 50,000 soldiers who died, and when the Union won the battle of Gettysburg Address. This speech was called? | THe Gettysburg Adress |
| This allowed California to be a free state? | Compromise of 1850 |
| Lincoln said:"We are here highly resolved that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom- and that the government of the people, by the poeple, for the poeple, shall not perish from this earth" | The Gettysburg Address |
| He stated that he became free when he stepped on free soil. As a reult, he sued for his freedom following his masters death. | Dred Scott Case |
| When Missouri was admitted as a slave state, and Maine as a free state, this was called___________? | Missouri Compromise |
| This book was written to show the cruelties of slavery and to gather abolitionists. | "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| This let Utah and New Mexico territories to decide for themselves whether to allow or not to allow slavery (called popular sovereignty). | Compromise of 1850 |
| Congress drew an imaginary line across the Louisiana Territory at 36 30. Slavery was prohibited north of this line. Missouri was th exeception. | Missouri Compromise |
| The first battle of the Civil War. The overly confident Union fled, while the confederates picked up their weapons. It showed both sides that the war would be longer than they realized. | Battle of Bull Run |
| This person's strategy was to fight a defensive war, in hopes to exhaust the Union. Then they would attack. | General Lee |
| ____________was the leader of the Union Army that led a total war in the south, eventually leading to a surrender in Virginia. | General Grant |
| After fighting for two weeks, this person finally surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virgina. | General Lee |
| In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that Scott could not sue for freedom because he was not a citizen. | Dred Scott Case |
| In order to cripple their economy, this person's strategy was to use the north's naval stregnth to blockade the southern ports. They hoped to cut off their trade of cotton with europe, hurting their economy. | General Grant |
| This allowed the Nebraska territory to be divided into two territories- Kansas and Nebraska. They would be able to vote for slavery or not in their states. | Kanasas- Nebraska Act (1854) |
| This abolished slave trade in the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) | Compromise of 1850 |
| Popular sovereignty- self government-meaning they vote on issues. This was practiced in the territories of New Mexico and Utah about the issue whether to allow or not allow slaves. | Compromise of 1850 |
| He hoped to preserve the union. He sent food but did not send weapons to Fort Sumter when they were being bombarded. | Abraham Lincoln |
| If this compromise was not used, then the balence of free and slave states would be tipped. | Missouri Compromise |
| This party was labeled as the abolitionists party. Abraham Licoln was affiliated withis party too. | Republican Party |
| This proposal suggested that- slavery was to be prohibited from any land gained from Mexico during the Mexican- American War. (1846-1848) | Compromise of 1850, Wilmot Proviso |
| This man led his troops to win the civil war. He knew that it was time to rebuild American and told the troops to stop cheering after the surreder was signed. | General Grant |
| He was initially unwilling to abolish slavery at the beginning of the Civil War, but eventually he would create the emancipation proclamation- freeing confederate slaves. | Abraham Lincoln |
| This amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal in the entire United States. | 13th Amendment |
| The 14th amendment stated what about citizens? | It stated that all people born or naturlized in the U.S., except Native Americans, are citizens. |
| This provided food, clothing, education, and jobs for the newly freed slaves and and poor whites. | Freedmen's Bureau |
| This man wrote in an abolitionist newspaper called the North Star. He was a former slave and a great speaker. | Fredrick Douglas |
| He was the southern sectional leader and South Carolina senator that fought for the states rights to have slavery. | John C. Calhoun |
| He was the sectional leader form the north that wanted to abolish slavery in new territories. He argued that states did not have the right to sucede the union. | Daniel Webster |
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