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US History
Chapter 14 Quiz Review
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Republican who served as the 16th president of the United States; lead the nation through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest crisis | Abraham Lincoln |
Democrat; Mexican war hero; U.S. senator from Mississippi; U.S secretary of war; only ever elected president of the Confederate States of America | Jefferson Davis |
Child of an abolitionist minister; deeply affected by the Fugitive Slave Act; author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Led an anti-slavery movement that became very violent; and even tried to raid a weapons cache; lead groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas Crisis | John Brown |
First southern state to secede from the Union; state where the first battle of The Civil War occurred | South Carolina |
Located on an island in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; home to the first battle of The Civil War | Fort Sumter |
Even that demonstrated how fragmented the nation had become; more divided than ever | Presidential Election of 1860 |
Year of a new president-elect | 1860 |
March of 1861 | Abraham was sworn into office; |
April of 1861 | Attack on Fort Sumter (civil war begins) |
To withdraw | Secede |
False or mis-leading information that is spread to a further cause | Propaganda |
People in the territory or state would vote directly on issues, rather than having their elected representative decide | Popular Sovereignty |
Runaway enslaved people | Fugitives |