U.S History Test

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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


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