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