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