unit 6

Question 1

Compromise of 1850

Answer 1

5 bills to ease tensions over slavery between the North and the South. California entered as a free state.

Question 2

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 2

Residents of a territory should vote whether they want slavery or not.

Question 3

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 3

Component of the compromise of 1850 requiring northerners to help capture runaway slaves. Northerners were enraged.

Question 4

Personal Liberty Laws

Answer 4

Laws passed by Northerners states to bypass fugitive slave act.

Question 5

Frederick Douglass

Answer 5

Former slave.

Question 6

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July

Answer 6

Speech highlighting hypocrisy of a nation celebrating liberty while millions remain enslaved.

Question 7

Harriet Tubman

Answer 7

Conductor of the underground railroad.

Question 8

Underground RR

Answer 8

Secret network of safe houses and routes used by enslaved people to escape to free states or canada.

Question 9

Harriet Beecher Stowe → Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 9

Novel humanizing the horrors of slavery for northern readers, becoming a massive best seller.

Question 10

Stephen A. Douglas

Answer 10

Powerful Illinois senator who championed popular sovereignty and designed the Kansas Nebraska act.

Question 11

Kansas-Nebraska Act & “Bleeding Kansas”

Answer 11

Law allowing Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery via popular sovereignty leading to a local civil war between pro and anti slavery settlers.

Question 12

Charles Sumner

Answer 12

“The Crime Against Kansas” speech attacking colleagues for supporting slavery

Question 13

Rise of the Republican Party

Answer 13

Formed by former whigs and free soilers to stop expansion of slavery into new territories.

Question 14

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 14

Supreme court ruling that black people were not citizens and that congress had no power to ban slavery in any territory.

Question 15

Lincoln - Douglas Debates

Answer 15

Series of debates for the Illinois senate. Lincoln lost the election, but debates made him a national figure.

Question 16

John Brown → “meteor of the war”

Answer 16

Radical abolitionist who believed violence was necessary to end slavery - raid on harpers ferry

Question 17

“Pottawatomie Massacre”

Answer 17

John brown led the pottawatomie massacre (killing pro slavery settlers).

Question 18

Harpers Ferry

Answer 18

John Brown led harpers ferry, an attempt to start a slave revolt.

Question 19

Election of 1860

Answer 19

Won by Abraham Lincoln. His victory triggered the secession of southern states who feared he would eventually abolish slavery.

Question 20

Fort Sumter & the Southern Secession.

Answer 20

First shots of the war were fired by South Carolina at fort sumter. The “upper south” joined the confederacy.

Question 21

South Carolina

Answer 21

First shots of the war were fired at fort sumter by south carolina. The “upper south” joined the confederacy.

Question 22

The Anaconda Plan vs. Southern Defensive Strategy

Answer 22

Northern strategy - to “strangle” the south by blockading ports and seizing the Mississippi river.

Southern Strategy - “defensive offensive” strategy intending to fight defensively an sought a “cotton diplomacy”

Question 23

Military technology

Answer 23

Minie ball (rifle bullet) and ironclad ships led to high casualty rates.

Question 24

1st Bull Run

Answer 24

First major battle, confederate victory proving the war would not be quick or easy.

Question 25

Antietam

Answer 25

Bloodiest day in us history.

Question 26

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 26

Executive order freeing slaves in rebel states. Changed wars purpose form saving the union to destroying slavery.

Question 27

Massachusetts 54th

Answer 27

One of the first african american units in civil war proving the capability of black soldiers.

Question 28

Gettysburg Address

Answer 28

redefined the Civil War as a struggle for human equality and the survival of democracy "new birth of freedom"

Question 29

Vicksburg

Answer 29

Union victory the day after Gettysburg that gave north control over the Mississippi river, splitting the confederacy in two.

Question 30

Abraham Lincoln 1st Inaugural Address

Answer 30

Lincoln's plea for peace stating he would not interfere with slavery or allow secession

Question 31

George B. McClellan

Answer 31

Early union general who was overly cautious.

Question 32

U.S. Grant

Answer 32

Union general eventually winning the war through aggressive persistance.

Question 33

Robert E. Lee

Answer 33

Army of Northern Virginia.

Question 34

The Homefront: Riots, role of women (Clara Barton), (medicine, “copperheads”,

Answer 34

Northern democrats who wanted peace, founder of American red cross

Question 35

Conscription (draft)

Answer 35

the mandatory enrollment of individuals into armed forces

Question 36

Habeas Corpus

Answer 36

Right to be brought before a judge. Lincoln suspended this to silence opposers and border state rebels.

Question 37

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Answer 37

Total war through Georgia intending to break the South's will to fight

Question 38

Appomattox Court House

Answer 38

Robert E. Lee (Army of northern Virginia) surrendered to US Grant ending the war here