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