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DSST Civil War 1
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1. 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
Fremont
General A. S. Johnston
Virginia Military Institute
George McClellan
2. Mandate that northern states forcibly return escaped slaves to their owners
John Brown
Fugitive slave law
Slaves were savages - owners treated them like children - the Bible
Nullification
3. supported nullification in response to the tariff of abominations
Slaves were savages - owners treated them like children - the Bible
Seceded states
General Buford
John Calhoun
4. John Brown - antislave fanatic - led an attack on proslavery immigrants. stabbed/shot 5 to death
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Potawatomi massacre
Northwestern Conspiracy
Fugitive slave law
5. VA - NC - TX - SC - Louisiana - Florida - AL - AK - MI - Georgia - TE
Charleston - South Carolina
Seceded states
William H. Seward
Compromise of 1850
6. Copperhead leader
Clement Vallandigham
SC - GA - FL - MS - LA - AL - TX
Wilmont Proviso
Slaves were savages - owners treated them like children - the Bible
7. 7 states that seceeded first
War Democrats
CSA constitution
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
SC - GA - FL - MS - LA - AL - TX
8. He insisted that under the Constitution he was bound only to preserve and protect the nation.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Lincoln
John Brown
CSA constitution
9. trains
Nullification
Army of Northern Virginia
Moved soldiers and supplies more in the Union
Tariff of abominations
10. taught mostly southerners to be better generals - riders - outdoorsmen
Kansas Nebraska Act
Virginia Military Institute
Slaves were savages - owners treated them like children - the Bible
CSA constitution
11. marked the start of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Kansas Nebraska Act
Copperheads
Nullification
12. 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.
South Carolina
Peace Democrats
1860 election
Northwestern Conspiracy
13. 1856 Republican Nominee
1860 election
Compromise of 1850
Fremont
Horace Greely
14. 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.
Horace Greely
General A. S. Johnston
Northwestern Conspiracy
Potawatomi massacre
15. opposed the war and called for reuniting the states through negotiation rather than force
John Brown
Nullification
SC - GA - FL - MS - LA - AL - TX
Peace Democrats
16. resembled US/protected and recognized slavery in new states and independent states - allowed for secession
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Peace Democrats
CSA constitution
Dred Scott Decision
17. 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.
Fugitive slave law
Army of Northern Virginia
General Joe Johnston
Kansas Wars
18. Conflict when people went to Kansas to vote on the issue of slavery. Many fights broke out between the opposition.
Missouri compromise
Mine ball
General Buford
Bloody Kansas
19. Fort Sumter location
Charleston - South Carolina
Lincoln's Cabinet
Army of the Potomac
William H. Seward
20. theory advanced by John Calhoun in response to the Tariff of 1828
John Calhoun
Nullification
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Army of Northern Virginia
21. 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.
South Carolina
Lincoln
Horace Greely
Black soldiers
22. abolitionist newspaper publisher to whom Lincoln wrote a letter about wanting to restore the union - even if slavery had to continue.
Kansas Nebraska Act
Charleston - South Carolina
Horace Greely
Smooth bore
23. Led to bloodshed over expansion of slavery - Raised issue of popular sovereignty
John Brown
CSA constitution
Copperheads
Kansas Wars
24. 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
Army of Northern Virginia
1860 election
John Brown
John Calhoun
25. Would have banned slavery in the territories acquired after the war with mexico
Seceded states
Virginia Military Institute
John Brown
Wilmont Proviso
26. 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
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Army of the Potomac
General A. S. Johnston
Mine ball
27. Trusted of Lincoln's cabinet
South Carolina
William H. Seward
Smooth bore
Fugitive slave law
28. 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.
Fugitive slave law
Army of Northern Virginia
Peace Democrats
Fort Sumter
29. 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.
Mine ball
John Brown
Texas
Kansas Nebraska Act
30. 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.
Army of the Potomac
Clement Vallandigham
Nullification
1860 election
31. The Union forces in the east that were under the command of Pope - George McClellan - and others.
William H. Seward
Army of the Potomac
Fort Sumter
Horace Greely
32. Delaware - Maryland - Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states - but did not secede.
Missouri compromise
Border states
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Seceded states
33. Ended Mexican War - US received Texas and other states - US paid Mexico $15 million dollars
Black soldiers
Tariff of abominations
Smooth bore
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
34. 1828 regulation with serious negative impact on the South's economy - while benefiting Northern and Western industrial interests
Horace Greely
Tariff of abominations
Virginia Military Institute
General A. S. Johnston
35. 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
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36. 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
Potawatomi massacre
Mine ball
Missouri compromise
Nullification
37. patriotically supported the Lincoln administration
Clement Vallandigham
War Democrats
Virginia Military Institute
Border states
38. SCOTUS ruling that a slave taken into a free state was not free - made the Missouri compromise unconstitutional
Bloody Kansas
Mine ball
Dred Scott Decision
Texas
39. 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.
William H. Seward
General Buford
Texas
1860 election
40. The document which established the present federal government of the United States and outlined its powers. It can be changed through amendments.
Slaves were savages - owners treated them like children - the Bible
Border states
Army of Northern Virginia
USA Constitution
41. Uncle Tom's Cabin author
Clement Vallandigham
Army of Northern Virginia
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Smooth bore
42. 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.
General Buford
Nullification
CSA constitution
Lincoln's Cabinet
43. Party that opposed the Civil War and wanted peace
Lincoln's Cabinet
Copperheads
Mine ball
Peace Democrats
44. Pro-slavery arguments
South Carolina
Dred Scott Decision
Missouri compromise
Slaves were savages - owners treated them like children - the Bible
45. law: California was free state - stricter Fugitive Slave Law - ended Slave Trade in DC
Compromise of 1850
Horace Greely
Peace Democrats
Wilmont Proviso
46. First state to secede from the Union
Bloody Kansas
William H. Seward
Black soldiers
South Carolina
47. firearm that is not rifled. Used in the South
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Texas
Slaves were savages - owners treated them like children - the Bible
Smooth bore