Civil War Quiz
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- Missouri Compromise
- Admitted Maine as a free state. Admitted Missouria as a slave state.
- Free-soil Movement
- Didn't want to end slavery everywhere. Didn't want slaves or free blacks moving to the West.
- Know-Nothing Party
- Popular reaction to fears that major cities were being overwhelmed by Irish Catholic immigrants.
- Sectionalism
- To focus on one section and not the whole country.
- Ordinance of Nullification
- declared the tariff of 1828 and 1832 null and void within South Carolina.
- Nat Turner's Rebellion
- Slave rebellion in Virgina in 1831.
- Abolitionist
- Northern religious leaders hoping to end slavery.
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Abolitionist who found the Liberator.
- Frederick Douglass
- Abolitionist and author of North Star
- Crittenden Compromise
- Proposal by John Crittenden to resolve US cession crisis of 1860-1861
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Part of the Compromise of 1850 that required the return of runaway slaves
- Underground Railroad
- network of undergronud routes where slaves tried to escape. estimated 30,000-100,000 people escaped
- Harriet Tubman
- African-American abolitionist. personally guided about 70 slaves to freedom.
- Stephen Douglas
- Nominee for President in 1860. lost to Abraham Lincoln.
- Wilmot Proviso
- free and soil parties formed in support of this. would have outlawed slavery in any territory.
- Compromise of 1850
- laws to regulate the spread of slavery in territories acquired from Mexico
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Settlers in Kansas and Nebraska could decide whether to be a free or slave state
- Mason-Dixon Line
- Part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Deleware, and Maryland
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Had profound effect on the North's view of slavery.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
- John Brown
- First white abolitionist to advocate the abolition of slavery.
- Raid on Harper's Ferry
- Led by John Brown hoping to initiate a slave uprising.
- Bleeding Kansas
- Attempt to influence whether Kansas would be a free or slave state
- Popular Sovereignty
- People of the state have all political power
- Dred Scott vs Stanford
- Ruled that African-Americans had no rights in America.
- Roger B. Taney
- Residing judge for the Dred Scott Case.
- Lecompton Controversy
- Supported slavery in the proposed state. Prime topics of the Lincoln-Douglas debate.
- Election of 1860
- Political System split 4 ways. Immediate result was the secession of 7 southern states.
- Abraham Lincoln
- 16th presiden and 1st from Republican Party. Ended slavery and preserved the Union.
- South Carolina secedes
- 1st state to secede from the US. Part of the CSA.
- Fort Sumter
- First shots of civil war fired here. Confederate batteries fired on the fort for 36 hours.
- Confederate States of America
- Formed by eleven states. US refused to recognize them.
- Jefferson Davis
- President of teh Confederate States of America
- Border States
- Deleware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Western Virgina
- Copperheads
- Democrats who opposed the civil war. Wanted immediate peace settlement with Confederates.
- McClellan
- Organized that army of the Potomac and briefly served as general-in-chief
- Grant
- Led Union general i nthe civil war
- Sherman+Lee
- Received recognition for outstanding command. Most celebrated forces during civil war.
- Jackson
- Famous for his Valley Campaign of 1862.
- Anaconda Plan
- Proposed in 1861 by General Scott to win the war with minimal deaths.
- Sherman's March to the Sea
- Conducted in late 1864 by Major General Sherman. Captured Atlanta then Savannah.
- "Total War"
- General Sherman destroyed the south's resources required to make war.
- Draft Riots
- Result of discontent with new laws passed to draft men into the civil war.
- Confiscation Act
- Any property used by Confederates during the civil war could be confiscated.
- Andersonville
- Site of prisoner-of-war camp. Camp Sumter.
- Battle of the Monitor
- First fight between two powered iron-covered warships. USS Monitor was the first ironclad warship.
- USS Merrimack
- The hulk upon which CSS Virginia was built. Launched by the Boston Navy in 1855.
- Appomattox Courthouse
- Civil war ended here. Battle of Appomattox Court House.
- Gettysburg Address
- Most Famous speech by Lincoln. Dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery.
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Declared the freedom of all slaves in the areas of the Confederate States of America.
- John Wilkes Booth
- Assassinated Presiden Lincoln. Confederate sympathizer who was dissatisfied with the civil war outcome.
- Ford's Theater
- Site of the Lincoln assassination.
- 13th Amendment
- officially abolished slavery
- CarpetBaggers
- Northerners who moved to the South