Chapter 14 and 15 Test Flashcards
What did the doctrine of free soil insist?
That Congress prohibit slavery in the territories
What would the solution of popular sovereignty allow?
It would allow each territory to decide the matter of slavery for themselves
What did the Wilmot Proviso insist?
That Congress could bar slavery in any territory that Mexico had ceded to the Union
Who wrote up the compromise of 1850 and sent it to President Taylor?
Henry Clay
What six things did the Compromise of 1850 entail?
The admission of Cali. as a free state
The division of the remainder of the Mexican cession into two territories, New Mexico and Utah, without the federal restrictions on slavery
The settlement of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute on terms favorable to New Mexico
As an incentive for Texas, an agreement that the federal government would assume the considerable public debt of Texas
The continuance of slavery in the district of columbia but the abolition of the slave trade
A more effective slave law
What was the compromise of 1850 organized into?
The omnibus bill
Who gave the seventh or March speech?
Daniel Webster
After Taylor’s death, who took the presidency?
Millard Fillmore
Who finally instituted the compromise of 1850?
Stephen A. Douglas
The did the fugitive slave act do?
Denied fugitives right of trial
Cannot testify on own behalf
Have to return to slavery
More money to commissioner if they ruled for the slaveholder
What was happened after the attempt to free Anthony Burns
Shattered the complacency of conservative supporters of the compromise of 1850
What anti-slavery book was turned into a play?
Uncle Tom’s cabin
Who won the election of 1852?
Franklin Pierce
Which election left the Whig party diminished to only the know-nothings and Republicans
1852
What drove Douglas to organize the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
His intent for a transcontinental railroad
The Kansas-Nebraska act, which divided the Nebraska state into both slave and free, violated which doctrine?
The Missouri compromise
How did Taney address the Dred Scott Case?
Scott could not sue for his freedom
No black or descent from a slave could become a US citizen
The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
What events posed Lincoln as a true threat for presidency?
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Whose name was not on any of the ballots in the election of 1860, even though he won?
Lincoln
What was the aftermath of the election of 1860?
Southern States succeeded from the union
What event marked the beginning of the confederate Army?
John Brown’s attacks on Harper’s Ferry
Who was the first president of the confederate States?
Jefferson Davis
What event marked the beginning of the civil war?
The cannon attacks on Fort Sumter
What advantage and disadvantage did the Union army have against the confederate army?
They had more soldiers but they were not as experienced
Who came up with the Anaconda Plan?
Winfield Scott
What were the three parts to the Anaconda plan?
The Peninsula Campaign
The Western Campaign
Naval Blockade
Who took over the Union army after the Peninsula Campaign?
George McClullen
Who controlled the confederate army?
Robert E. Lee
What was Lee’s strategy to win the war?
Wear out the Union Army
Who led the captures of Paducah, Kentucky and Fort Donaldson
Ulysses S. Grant and Tecumseh Sherman
What was the first major battle of the war and who won?
The Battle of Shiloh - Union Victory
What was George McClullen’s major problem?
Too conservative and refused to use the army
What was Lee’s strategy to winning the Battle of Seven Days?
To distract the Union Army away from Richmond
What did Lincoln suspend in Virginia, allowing him to arrest any rebels or anyone anti-government?
Habeas Corpus
Who won the Battle of Cedar Mountain?
Confederates
Who won the second battle of Manassas
Confederates
Who replaces McClullen after Lincoln fires him?
Albert Burnside
Who decides to create an Ironclad to rival the confederates’?
Gideon Welles
What did the contraband act say?
You could keep all southern Contraband as property
What did the Confiscation Act say?
Allowed the Union to keep escaped slaves
Who won the election of 1864?
Lincoln
Who accepts the Confederate surrender?
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
What was the first time we see sterile operating rooms and hospitals?
the Women’s Sanitary Society
What did the Homestead Act say?
In each state, a hundred and sixty acres of free land west of the MI river, would be set aside for universities
Which amendment banned slavery forever?
13th
