Major Unit Topics

Question 0

New Republican Party

Answer 0

By the end of 1856, the nation’s political landscape had shifted. The Whig Party had split over the issue of slavery, and the Democratic Party was weak. This left the new Republican Party to move closer to presidency.

Question 1

Whig Party

Answer 1

The political party formed in 1834 to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson who expanded voting rights to all white males and also his veto concerning the charter of the National Bank.

Question 2

Election of 1856

Answer 2

Republican chose Jonhson Fremont vs. Democrats James Buchanan and the Republicans won. It was important because it have political strength to the Northerners.

Question 3

President Lincoln

Answer 3

His main goal at first was to keep the states together. Later slavery was included but not by choice.

Question 4

Fort Sumter

Answer 4

First shots of Civil War, Confederates fired upon Federal fort, fort surrenders, war begin.

Question 5

Robert E. Lee

Answer 5

Confederate General who had opposed secession but didn’t believe Union should be held together by force. Won two major victories against the Union, but loss a 3 days battle in the North.

Question 6

Stonewall Jackson

Answer 6

General in Confederate Army during Civil War whose troops at the first battle of Bull Run, stood like a stonewall and defeated the Union Army. He was accidentally shot by his own men and died.

Question 7

Jefferson Davis

Answer 7

First and only president of the Confederacy. Appointed Robert E. Lee commander of Army of Northern Virginia.

Question 8

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 8

The goal was to free slaves in any of the Confederate states of America.

Question 9

Suspension of Habes Corpus

Answer 9

The writs of is a person’s right not to be imprisoned unless charged with a crime and given a trial. Lincoln suspended those rights in an effort to stop anyone from supporting the Confederate.

Question 10

Know-nothing Party

Answer 10

Nativists, anti immigrant and anti Catholic

Question 11

Free Soil Party

Answer 11

Anti Extension of Slavery and pro-labor

Question 12

Democratic Party

Answer 12

State’s rights, limited govt, divided on slavery.

Question 13

Election of 1860

Answer 13

Abraham Lincoln thought slavery was immoral and used the Dred Scott case against Stephen Douglas. Lincoln gained national recognition and became first Republican president.

Question 14

Southern Secession

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Lincoln’s victory convinced the south that they had lost their political voice in the national govt.

Question 15

Confederate states of America

Answer 15

Delegates from the secessionist states meet up in Montgomery and formed it. The confederates constitution “protected and recognized” slavery.

Question 16

Ulysses S. Grant

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Lincoln promoted him to commander of the entire Union Army in 1864. Captured Vicksburg giving the Union control of the Mississippi River. Fought Lee in a series of battles ending in Lee’s surrender.

Question 17

William T. Sherman

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Attacked and destroyed Atlanta which helped Lincoln secure the political support that allowed him to be re-elected in 1864.

Question 18

Stephen Douglas

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A democrat who believed in Popular Sovereignty but thought slavery was moral.

Question 19

Battle of Gettysburg

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The battle was a turning point of the war and left the Confederates severely weakened. It left the North and South with a total casualties reaching more than 50,000 men.

Question 20

Gettysburg Address

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Given by President Lincoln to dedicate a portion of the battlefield as a cemetery.

Question 21

Bleeding Kansas

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A mini civil war in Kansas in 1856 cause by the tensions between the North (antislavery) and the South (proslavery).

Question 22

Popular Sovereignty

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The idea that people living in a territory should have the right to decide the issue of slavery for themselves.

Question 23

Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Opened territories of Kansas and Nebraska to US settlement. Repealed Missouri Compromise of 1820. Opened way for slavery issue to be decided there by popular sovereignty.

Question 24

Dred Scott

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He was taken into a free state and then back into the slave state. Scott sued for freedom since he had live in a free state, that he should be free.

Question 25

John Brown’s Raid

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In 1859 he and his followers tried to support slave uprising by seizing an arsenal in Harpers Ferry and after a trial, was executed. He was view by many in the north as a martyr for the antislavery movement.

Question 26

Lincoln’s second inaugural address

Answer 26

Lincoln sought to avoid harsh treatment of the defeated South. He balanced that rejection of the triumphalism with the recognition of the evil of slavery.

Question 27

Failure of Popular Sovereignty

Answer 27

Because of the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act which nullified the Missouri Compromise. There was illegal voting.

Question 28

John C. Fremont

Answer 28

Nominated by Republican Party in the 1856 election. Lincoln appointed him a major gen. In 1861 and gave him command of the Department of the West.

Question 29

James Buchanan

Answer 29

Nominated by the Democratic Party in the 1856 presidential election. Fail to deal with secession.