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