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H U.S. History | Unit 6
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Name the proposal that attempted to make all territory gained from Mexico free?
Willmost Proposal
Explain why abolitionists were opposed to popular sovereignty?
Still allowed the possibility of slavery.
How did the Compromise of 1850 affect California's slavery status?
Allowed to come in as a free state.
Why did the Fugitive Slave Act backfire on the South?
Made more
abolitionists
anti-slavery.
Who was the woman that wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriett Beacher-Stowe
What was the name of the piece of land that had to be purchased from Mexico to complete the Transcontinental Railroad?
Garden Purchase.
What is the name of the two territories that had to be organized to complete the Transcontinental Railroad?
Kansas
and
Nebraska
What was the name of the slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court?
Dredd Scott
Explain the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Scott v. Sandford?
African Americans are not slaves.
Who did Lincoln run for Senate against in Illinois?
Steven Douglas
Who was the man who led the raid at Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
How was Lincoln able to win the Election of 1860?
Democrats split
their
votes.
What was the name of the first state to secede from the United States?
South Carolina
Who was the President of
Confederacy
?
Jefferson Davis
What is significant about the casualty numbers at the Battle of Antietam?
Most casualties
in one day;
bloodiest single
day in
American history.
What are the names of the two battles that are considered the turning point of the Civil War?
Gettysburg and Vicksburg
What did the
Emancipation Proclamation
do?
Freed slaves in
Confederate states.
What were the names of three of the cities that were destroyed by Sherman's March?
Atlanta
,
Savannah
, and
Columbia
(SC).
What was the name of the location where Lee surrendered to Grant?
Appomattox
What was the name given to the small-scale civil war that broke out in Kansas?
Bleeding Kansas.