Test IV: The Civil War Flashcards
bill that inducted California into the Union as a free state and allowed the Utah and New Mexico territories to choose
Compromise of 1850
government established by seceded states
Confederacy
Massachusetts Senator known as greatest U.S. orator
Daniel Webster
slave who appealed to Supreme Court for freedom
Dred Scott
land purchased from Mexico for railroads
Gadsden Purchase
settlers moving to the West to become rich
Gold Rush
treaty that ended the Mexican War
Guadalupe Hidalgo
author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom
Harriet Tubman
president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
American pioneer who conquered California
John C. Fremont
commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army
Robert E. Lee
general of the Mexican Army
Santa Anna
commander-in-chief of the Union Army
Ulysses S. Grant
Union general who burned Atlanta
William T. Sherman