Unit 6 APUSH Smith
Antietam
1862 battle in Maryland that saw more than 20,000 casualties. Union won, but failed to chase reeling confederate
Dred Scott
A slave who sued for his freedom because he was taken to a free territory
Free and independent states
According to South Carolinas declaration of secession, the Declaration of Independence made South Carolina and the other states in the union
Articles of Comfederation
According to the South Carolina declaration of secession this did not give them the ability to secede
George Fitzhugh
Believed that slavery was more human than slave labor
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Called for popular sovereignty in the Louisiana Purchase on slavery Led to an intra-territorial war and the creation of two territorial governments
Compromise of 1850
Called for popular sovereignty in the Utah and New Mexico territories Admitted California as a free states Created a fugitive slave act
Wilmot Proviso
Called for slavery to be allowed in Texas, but nowhere else in territories gained from Mexico
John bell
Constitutional Union party candidate in 1860 presidential election
Tennesse
Did not remain in the union throughout the balance of the civil wat
Jefferson Davis
Elected president of the Confederacy
Freed only slaves in the territories currently in rebellion
Emancipation Proclamation
False
Emancipation proclamation took effect in 1865
A sectional party enacted a "presidential of the US whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery
Final event that caused South Carolina to secede
South carolina
First state to secede from the union
Fewer European immigrants
In the 1850s, the south different from the North in that the South had
Lincolns path of continued war
In the 1864 election cartoon, what path did the author state was the better one to take
McClellans path of peace
In the election carton what did the author suggest Britain and France preferred the Union take
False
Is slavery mentioned in the Gettysburg address
Nat Turner
Led a rebellion that killed 57 whites
Missouri Compromise
Made Maine a free state, Missouri a slave state Banned slavery north of 36 degrees, 30 minutes latitude in the Louisiana Purchase
Sojurner Truth
Mixed both abolitionism and whites
Stephen Douglas
Northern Democrat candidate in 1860 presidential election
American Colonization
Proposed retiring freed slaves to Africa
Fredrick Douglas
Published the "North Star," an abolitionist newspaper
John Brown
Raided a federal Arsenal to arm a slave rebellion, but it was put down and he was executed, becoming an antislavery martyr
Abraham Lincoln
Republican candidate in 1860 presidential election
John Fremont
Republican presidential candidate in 1856
Enacting the Crittenden Compromise
South Carolina in declaring its intention to secede said the northern states were not fulfilling their constitutional obligations in all the following except
John Breckenridge
Southern Democrat candidate in 1860 presidential election
National legislation could not stop the spread of slavery into the territories
The Dred Scott decision established which of the following principles
Repealed the Missouri Compromise
The Kansas-Nebraska Act heightened the sectional crisis because it
Opposition to the further extension of slavery into the territories
The Republican Party originated in the mid-1850s as a sectional party committed to which of the following
William Lloyd Garrison
The call for "immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves" is most associated with the position of
The natural population increase of American-born slaves
The dramatic increase in the south's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to
Called for Union soldiers to assist freed slaves in going to Canada
The emancipation proclamation did not
None
The majority of southern whites owned how many slaves
Underground Railroad
This group assisted slaves in escaping to Canada after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act
To ensure that the government for the people by the people of the people will not perish from the earth
What did Lincoln state would be the best way to honor those who died at Gettysburg
Invention of the cotton gin
What had the greatest impact on the institution of slavery in the United States during the first quarter of the 19th century
The fugitive slave law
What provision of the compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850s
To dedicate the Gettysburg battlefield
What was the purpose of the Gettysburg address
Settlers in a given territory have the sole right to determine whether or not slavery will be permitted there
Which of the following states the principle of popular sovereignty as practiced in the antebellum period
The lower south: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
Which region was most dependent on slave labor in the antebellum years
James Buchanan
Won the presidential election of 1856 and was the 15th president
Harriet Beecher Stow
Wrote an antislavery novel that was the best-selling book in the US in the 1850s (Uncle Toms Cabin)
Shermans March
in an act of total war, this event saw much damage to civilian targets in the south
Gettysburg
longest battle of the war, taking place in July 1863. lee lost 1/3 of his army
Merrimack vs. Monitor
major 1862 naval battle fought to a draw
Bull Run
major early COnfederate victory in 1861, largely due to the effects of Stonewall Jackson
appomattox court house
the surrender was signed here in 1865
Vicksburg
when the confederates surrendered this city after a Union siege, it allowed the Union to control the Mississippi