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Cards (20)

  • 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.