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