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DSST Civil War 1
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1. caused controversy after it won independence from Mexico. Northerners feared it would be admitted as a slave state and upset the balance of power. It finally became a slave state in 1845.
Potawatomi massacre
Virginia Military Institute
Texas
Army of Northern Virginia
2. One of the three major armies of the Confederacy Its first mission was to defend Richmond - the capital of the Confederacy. Its second mission was to defeat the Army of the Potomac.
Army of Northern Virginia
Slaves were savages - owners treated them like children - the Bible
Fugitive slave law
General Buford
3. resembled US/protected and recognized slavery in new states and independent states - allowed for secession
Nullification
General Buford
CSA constitution
Peace Democrats
4. Would have banned slavery in the territories acquired after the war with mexico
Copperheads
General Joe Johnston
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmont Proviso
5. Led to bloodshed over expansion of slavery - Raised issue of popular sovereignty
Border states
Copperheads
Kansas Wars
Compromise of 1850
6. allowed to participate in combat late in the war - suffered a far higher mortality rate - service was a source of pride because it symbolized their freedom.
Smooth bore
Black soldiers
Fremont
Northwestern Conspiracy
7. taught mostly southerners to be better generals - riders - outdoorsmen
SC - GA - FL - MS - LA - AL - TX
Mine ball
Lincoln
Virginia Military Institute
8. opposed the war and called for reuniting the states through negotiation rather than force
1860 election
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Smooth bore
Peace Democrats
9. VA - NC - TX - SC - Louisiana - Florida - AL - AK - MI - Georgia - TE
Virginia Military Institute
Seceded states
William H. Seward
Army of the Potomac
10. The Union forces in the east that were under the command of Pope - George McClellan - and others.
1860 election
CSA constitution
Seceded states
Army of the Potomac
11. The document which established the present federal government of the United States and outlined its powers. It can be changed through amendments.
Compromise of 1850
USA Constitution
Army of Northern Virginia
South Carolina
12. supported nullification in response to the tariff of abominations
Clement Vallandigham
General Buford
John Calhoun
1860 election
13. Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin; Secretary of State: William H. Seward; Secretary of Treasury: Salmon P. Chase; Secretary of War: Simon Cameron; Attorney General: Edward Bates
14. law: Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
South Carolina
Northwestern Conspiracy
Kansas Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
15. marked the start of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Tariff of abominations
Wilmont Proviso
16. 1856 Republican Nominee
Fremont
Kansas Nebraska Act
South Carolina
Missouri compromise
17. Conflict when people went to Kansas to vote on the issue of slavery. Many fights broke out between the opposition.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1860 election
Virginia Military Institute
Bloody Kansas
18. Delaware - Maryland - Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states - but did not secede.
Mine ball
Wilmont Proviso
Border states
War Democrats
19. Uncle Tom's Cabin author
Clement Vallandigham
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lincoln
Fort Sumter
20. abolitionist newspaper publisher to whom Lincoln wrote a letter about wanting to restore the union - even if slavery had to continue.
Horace Greely
Black soldiers
Smooth bore
Harriet Beecher Stowe
21. First state to secede from the Union
General Joe Johnston
South Carolina
Army of the Potomac
Clement Vallandigham
22. Copperhead leader
Clement Vallandigham
Kansas Nebraska Act
Army of the Potomac
Mine ball
23. 1828 regulation with serious negative impact on the South's economy - while benefiting Northern and Western industrial interests
Nullification
Compromise of 1850
Black soldiers
Tariff of abominations
24. a type of muzzle-loading spin-stabilising rifle bullet - had a small iron plug in the base whose purpose was to drive forward the bullet and - under the pressure of powder gases - obturate the bullet to fill the hollow space and expand the lead skirt
Army of the Potomac
Mine ball
War Democrats
John Calhoun
25. SCOTUS ruling that a slave taken into a free state was not free - made the Missouri compromise unconstitutional
Fremont
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
Army of Northern Virginia
26. law: Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state - Maine to enter the union as a free state - prohibited slavery north of latitude 36
Virginia Military Institute
Missouri compromise
General Joe Johnston
Lincoln's Cabinet
27. patriotically supported the Lincoln administration
Smooth bore
Virginia Military Institute
War Democrats
William H. Seward
28. An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves - was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an armory
John Brown
Texas
John Calhoun
Kansas Nebraska Act
29. trains
Army of the Potomac
John Brown
Moved soldiers and supplies more in the Union
Harriet Beecher Stowe
30. Pro-slavery arguments
Slaves were savages - owners treated them like children - the Bible
George McClellan
Dred Scott Decision
Texas
31. He insisted that under the Constitution he was bound only to preserve and protect the nation.
SC - GA - FL - MS - LA - AL - TX
Fugitive slave law
Kansas Nebraska Act
Lincoln
32. Union. A cavalry commander. He has an eye for finding the best ground on a battlefield. He has been given two brigades and ordered to follow the movements of the Confederate army. Gettysburg.
Moved soldiers and supplies more in the Union
General Buford
Fort Sumter
General A. S. Johnston
33. Mandate that northern states forcibly return escaped slaves to their owners
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fugitive slave law
Bloody Kansas
Copperheads
34. The political system was split four ways -and all of them proved unable to keep the Union together.This brought Lincoln to power without the vote of a single southern state.
Peace Democrats
Lincoln's Cabinet
1860 election
CSA constitution
35. Fort Sumter location
Missouri compromise
1860 election
USA Constitution
Charleston - South Carolina
36. 7 states that seceeded first
Fort Sumter
CSA constitution
SC - GA - FL - MS - LA - AL - TX
Dred Scott Decision
37. firearm that is not rifled. Used in the South
Smooth bore
Mine ball
Army of Northern Virginia
Fort Sumter
38. Party that opposed the Civil War and wanted peace
Clement Vallandigham
Copperheads
CSA constitution
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
39. Union commander who took over for Scott during the first part of the war; won a major battle at Antietam but was replaced after Lincoln was unhappy with his passive strategy
George McClellan
Potawatomi massacre
Black soldiers
Mine ball
40. Ended Mexican War - US received Texas and other states - US paid Mexico $15 million dollars
Compromise of 1850
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
General A. S. Johnston
41. He assaulted Grant at the battle of Shiloh. He dies at the battle because he was shot in the leg and cant feel it - and thus bleeds to death.
Copperheads
Moved soldiers and supplies more in the Union
General A. S. Johnston
1860 election
42. CSA general at 1st Battle of Bull Run and Peninsula Campaign - - He surrendered to William Sherman on April 26th - 1865 in North Carolina after unsuccesfully defeating Sherman's men at Bentonville.
Copperheads
Dred Scott Decision
General Joe Johnston
Border states
43. Thomas Hines convinced Confederate President Jefferson Davis of a plan to instill mass panic in the Northern states - by means of freeing prisoners and causing arson in larger Northern cities.
Northwestern Conspiracy
Seceded states
William H. Seward
Lincoln
44. Trusted of Lincoln's cabinet
William H. Seward
1860 election
Moved soldiers and supplies more in the Union
Compromise of 1850
45. John Brown - antislave fanatic - led an attack on proslavery immigrants. stabbed/shot 5 to death
Wilmont Proviso
1860 election
Smooth bore
Potawatomi massacre
46. theory advanced by John Calhoun in response to the Tariff of 1828
USA Constitution
Army of the Potomac
Smooth bore
Nullification
47. law: California was free state - stricter Fugitive Slave Law - ended Slave Trade in DC
Peace Democrats
William H. Seward
Copperheads
Compromise of 1850