Nation Building

Question 0

Henry Clay

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Proposed the American System, compromise of 1850, and the Missouri Compromise

Question 1

American system

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Was put forth by Henry clay and it created an infrastructure for the nation Monroe vetoed the part of giving money so it failed. The collapse leads to sectionalism

Question 2

Missouri compromise

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The gaining of Missouri unbalanced the free to slave states in the Us senate. So to keep everyone happy Missouri is admitted as slave and Maine as free. Happened because of slavery.

Question 3

Wilmot Proviso

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pa governed who suggests we band slavery in Mexico territory because we we’re suppose to gain land from Mexico but that would create sectionalism so it fails.

Question 4

Compromise of 1850

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Slaves were protected, there were stronger fugitive slave laws, California was free, and slave trade was abolished in Washington DC

Question 5

Popular sovereignty

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Notion that people who move to a new territory determine if it is free or slave

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Uncle toms cabin

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Written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 7

Republican Party

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Born in 1854 it was completely sectional the goal was to stop the expansion of slavery

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Kansas-Nebraska act

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Created by Stephen Douglas it repealed he Missouri compromise, spilt the Louisiana purchase into two territories, and allowed it’s settlers to accept or reject slavery by popular sovereignty

Question 9

Dred Scott

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It was a court case where a slave was suing for his freedom since he moved to a free territory. The ruling was the congress doesn’t have the right to determine if a territory is free or slave. Supreme Court says all territories were slave

Question 10

Stephen Douglas

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Was a senator who proposed a bill to organize the territory west of Missouri and Iowa he disregarded the compromise line

Question 11

John brown

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Led a raid on harpers ferry. He believe he was god’s agent and by killing all the slave owners slavery would be stopped. He was hung for treason

Question 12

Harpers ferry

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In Virginia at the time and the raid by john’s mend led to the organization if the southern militia and later the confederate army

Question 13

Abraham Lincoln

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President of the us during the civil war

Question 14

Anaconda plan

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A key point in the unions war strategy was encircling the south as an anaconda circles it’s prey. The plan entailed a naval blockade and the capture of the Mississippi rive and corridor

Question 15

Crittenden admendment

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Congress tried to resolve the sectional crisis in the months between Lincoln’s election and inauguration. The proposal would have extended the Missouri compromise line west to the pacific but it fails.

Question 16

Fort Sumter

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1st shot fired by the confederated, the bombardment continued for 40 hours without loss of life. On April 13 the union forces surrendered

Question 17

James m mason and John Slidell while on their way to England we’re captured by the union and taken into custody. They let them go because it would have led to a war between Britain and the US

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Trent affair

Question 18

Captured by Ulysses S grant the confederates were forced to withdrawal from Kentucky and middle Tennessee

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Fort Henry and Donelson

Question 19

John C Calhoun

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Was given a chance go achieve his goal of creating a southern voting bloc that would cut across regular party lines

Question 20

John Quincy Adam

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His election led to the election of 1828

Question 21

Shiloh

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23,000 causalities in 2 days seen as the turning point. The union son because steamboats with reinforcements came and grant became depressed

Question 22

New Orleans

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April 26 fleet under David Farragut coming up from the gulf captured NO. It was a major port so a major loss for the confederates

Question 23

Antietam

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September 17 bloodiest single day battle. 5,000 men died on two sides. Was a draw it is the ultimate turning point because it loses foreign recognition

Question 24

Emancipation proclamation

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President icon proclaimed that the slaves of the confederacy were free. Since the south had nt yet been defeated the proclamation did not immediately free anyone but it made emancipation an explicit war aim for the north

Question 25

Fredericksburg

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Was a failure due to a uphill struggle and the slaughtering of union soldiers

Question 26

McClellan

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He failed to capture Richmond cause he was cautious and stupid. He only started campaigning after he became head of he army of the Potomac

Question 27

Vicksburg

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Captured by grant in a risky move. This is what stood between the north and the Mississippi River

Question 28

Gettysburgh

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Lee’s army marches and confronted a union army that had taken up strong defensive position. At the end of the three day battle lee retreated and Meade failed I follow up on his victory

Question 29

Grant vs lee

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Grant knew that lee would run out of me. So grant renewed his attack and forced the confederfs to abandon Petersburg and Richmond on April 2 1865. Lee realized his hopelessness now. Fought a series of bloody battles

Question 30

March to the sea

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After Sherman’s invasion of Georgia and Atlanta went well he cut himself off from supply lines and lived off the land. He marched un oppose through Georgia to the sea destroying almost everything of possible military or economic value in a corridor

Question 31

Sherman

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Led the western armies towards alants and the heart of Georgia

Question 32

Appomattox Courthouse

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Lee surrendered on April 9th