Session & Civil War Vocab

Question 1

Want soil to be free of slavery. Ok with slavery in the south just don’t want to see it expand

Answer 1

Free soil party

Question 2

To officially separate

Answer 2

Secession

Question 3

Missouri compromise & another compromise that does
A. Cali becomes a free state
B. Strong fugitive slave law (they have to return runaway slaves)
C. No slave trade in DC
D. New Mexico & Utah to use popular sovereignty
E. Texas gets $10000000 to shut up

Answer 3

Compromise of 1820 & 1850

Question 4

Steven Douglas.

Kansas & Nebraska need to use popular sovereignty

Answer 4

Kansas-Nebraska act

Question 5

Harriet Beecher Stowe -> author

Starts changing perception of abolitionist from :( -> :). Southern read it and get offended

Answer 5

Uncle toms cabin

Question 6

Wants to kill every slave owner

Answer 6

John Brown

Question 7

Slave who’s master took him to Ohio o he thought he was free but the master said no so they took it to Supreme Court

Answer 7

Dred Scott decision

Question 8

7 states wanted to succeed because Lincoln was elected someone tells Lincoln “why don’t you tell the south you’ll protect slavery where it already exists” but Lincoln refuses

Answer 8

Crittenden Compromise

Question 9

What they call the 7 states that succeeded

Answer 9

Confederate states of America

Question 10

President of the confederacy

Answer 10

Jefferson Davis

Question 11

Kentucky
Missouri
Delaware 
Maryland
West Virginia 
(Slave states do not succeed)

Answer 11

Border states

Question 12

Commander of confederate army

Answer 12

Robert E Lee

Question 13

Commander of Union army

Answer 13

US Grant

Question 14

2 guy in confederacy

Answer 14

“Stonewall” Jackson

Question 15

#2 guy in Union 
Uses new concept in war "total war"

Answer 15

William T Sherman

Question 16

Battleships

Answer 16

Iron clads

Question 17

Mandatory draft laws
In the north if you pay $300 you don’t have to fight
In the south if you had 20+ salves you didn’t have to fight

Answer 17

Conscription law

Question 18

“Angle of the battlefield”
A nurse
Founder of red cross

Answer 18

Clara Barton

Question 19

Official document that says slaves are free

Answer 19

Emancipation proclamation

Question 20

Most popular speech

Answer 20

Gettysburg address

Question 21

Nickname to northern democrats that sabotaged Lincoln’s war efforts

Answer 21

Copperheads

Question 22

The US impressed the British ships

Answer 22

Trent affair

Question 23

Lincoln’s assassin

Answer 23

John Wilkes Booth

Question 24

Union constricts and suffocates the confederacy
Do 3 things
1. Take over Mississippi River
2. Take over Richmond
3. blockade ports
4. Where confederacy is the strongest, union goes

Answer 24

Anaconda plan

Question 25

The people / new territories vote to decide if they have slavery or not.
Steven Douglas

Answer 25

Popular sovereignty