History Test 7, Chapter 14 Flashcards
Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
The admission of what state in 1850 temporarily upset the balance between free and slave states?
California
Where was the first shot of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter
Which two men met at Appomattox Court House to discuss terms of surrender?
Lee and Grant
Who was known as the ‘‘Angel of the Battlefield’’?
Clara Barton
John C. Calhoun was a famous ‘‘states’ rights’’ spokesman from what state?
South Carolina
How many states joined the Confederacy?
11
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Which man introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglas
What officer was responsible for capturing John Brown in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia?
Robert E. Lee
first major battle of the war
Bull Run
bloody battle fought in Tennessee
Shiloh
battle in which the Confederate army split and lured the Union into a trap
Chancellorsville
bloody battle fought in Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
bloodiest single day of the war
Antietam
Fredericksburg
A. E. Burnside