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