Beg, Borrow, Steal

• 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.