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History Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fanaticism | A strong belief towards something that make people refuse to consider other opinions |
| Total War | A type of war where a country uses everything in order to support the war |
| Popular Sovereignty | Residents of an area vote to decide whether slavery should be allowed |
| Sectionalism | Loyalty to one part of a country rather than the whole |
| Vicksburg | Major Union victory that gave the north control of the Mississippi River |
| Richmond/Petersburg campaign | Long Union siege that cut off Confederate supply and helped bring the Civil War to an end |
| Sherman’s March to the Sea | Generals Grant and Meade laid siege from Atlanta to Savannah because of failing to take Petersburg and Richmond |
| Antietam | Bloodiest single day, Confederates thought that they would win and this would be the last battle, Union won |
| Gettysburg | Bloodiest battle of war Union won |
| Virginia and monitor | First battle of ironclad warships |
| Compromise of 1850 | |
| Missouri Compromise | |
| Wilmot Proviso | |
| Crittenden Proposal | |
| Dried Scott Decision | |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
| John Brown | |
| Andrew Johnson | |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | |
| Robert E Lee | |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union general, he told confederate troops that no terms except immediate and unconditional surrender are accepted |
| Jefferson Davis | Senator from Mississippi and former secretary of war |
| How did the fight over slavery in the territories change from 1820 to 1860 and how did this contribute to the beginning of the Civil War? | |
| Which Supreme Court ruling did one of those amendments change and how? | |
| Who surrenders while Lincoln is alive (and where), | Robert E Lee surrenders at the appormatix courthouse because he ran out of troops and supplies |
| What was the goal of the person who assassinated Lincoln? | They hoped to kill leaders so that the South would win the war |
| Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address | |
| Hard war | When the Union tried to win over the Confederates by destroying property |
| His second address when he became President. It was not as detailed as his first one because he felt like a lot of people already knew him and what he believes in. | |
| A compromise that admitted California as a free state and strengthened the fugitive slave act. It helped settle arguments between the North and South, but it did not permanently fix it. | |
| Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Made a line that separates North from South. | |
| A proposal to outlaw slavery. Did not get passed by Congress. | |
| A series of measures written by a U.S. senator trying to help the divide of the nation. These measures were defeated | |
| Dred Scott Decision | A slave that tried to sue to get freedom. Supreme Court said that slaves had no legal rights. |
| Admitted both Nebraska and Kansas as territories. They had to decide whether to make them free or slave states using popular sovereignty. Lots of fights corrupted. | |
| Extreme abolitionist that murdered pro-slavery people in Kansas | |
| 17th President of the U.S. and was vice president of Lincoln. Johnson favors slavery. | |
| Union leader that led Sherman’s March to the Sea and fought total warfare | |
| Commander of the Confederate army. Surrendered at the Appromatix Courthouse to Ulysses S. Grant | |
| During the 1820s, everyone was trying to keep an equal # of states in the North and South. Even though it worked for a little, there was lots of arguments over it that caused Bleeding Kansas, etc. So, after trying to settle it, Lincoln decided their next | |
| The Dred Scott Decision was to announce that black Americans were not citizens, but the 14th amendment changed that by allowing everyone to be a citizen, no matter your race. | |
| Fugitive Slave Act | A law that protected slavery. It strengthened the abolitionist movement |