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