U.S History Test
The 11 states that succeeded were called _________
The Confederate States of America
Compromise of 1850 is also called
The Fugitive Slave Act
What did Henry Clay create?
The Missouri Compromise and the Fugitive Slave Act
What did the Confederacy say to American Troops?
They had to leave the South
The Compromise of 1850 allows...
Southerns to go search and bring back their slaves
Abraham Lincoln is from
Springfield, Illinois
Who did Abraham run against for senate?
Stephen Douglas
Total War
Destroy an entire area
General Sherman's March to the Sea
General Sherman burned Atlanta and marched all the way through Georgia to Savannah
Who created the Fugitive Slave Act?
Henry Clay
Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
Hodgensville, KY
Andrew Johnson was ______
Impeached
Becoming a _______ is Abe Lincoln's only education
Lawyer
General Robert E. Lee was the ___________
Leader of the American Army but joined the Confederacy
General Ulysses S. Grant
Leader of the U.S troops
Year of Missouri Compromise
1820
What year was the Illinois Senate Race Abe ran in?
1858
What year did Abe run against Stephen for president?
1860
What years did the Civil War take place?
1861-1865
Reconstruction
1865-1877
Underground Railroad
A system of stops and house to assist runaway slaves
Name 2 Kentuckians
Abe Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
Who was Abraham Lincoln's Vice President?
Andrew Johnson
General Robert E. Lee owned the ___________ House
Arlington
General Robert E. Lee's property was taken and turned into __________
Arlington National Cemetery
Who won the 1858 Senate Election? Why?
Douglas; he was the incumbent
The Missouri Compromise kept the states ____
Equal
The Speed Family owned a plantation called
Farmington
Where did Lincoln first see slavery?
Farmington- Louisville
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Ford's Theater
Maine is a
Free state
Who shot Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Who did Abe Lincoln meet in Law School?
Joshua Speed
Abe Lincoln moved from ______ to _________.
Kentucky to Indiana
Fort Sumter, 1861
Located in Charleston, first battle of the Civil War in 1861
Who is Abe Lincoln's wife? Where is she from?
Mary Todd Lincoln: Lexington
Capretbaggers
Nickname for Northerners that took advantage of southerners after the war
Jefferson Davis was the _____________
President of the Confederacy
Jim Crow Laws
Segregation- keeping black and white people separated
Missouri is a
Slave state
Major reason for the Civil War
Slavery
What did republicans want to ban in the 1860 presidential election?
Slavery
Emancipation Proclamation
Slavery is illegal in the U.S as of January 1st, 1863
What does the 13th Amendment state?
Slavery is illegal in the United States
What did the South use slavery for?
To pick cotton
Where is Jefferson Davis from?
Todd/Christian County, KY
Harriet Tubman
Traveled back and forth from the north to south to bring slaves to freedom in the north
Battle of Gettysburg
Turning point of the war
Where is Appomattox Courthouse?
Virginia
military academies
West Point (army), Naval Academy, Air Force
Appomattox Court House
Where the Civil War ended
Secession
to leave