Unit 4

Question 1

Allows missouri to enter as slave state but PRESERVED BALANCE between north and south by carving free soil Maine out of Mass and prohibiting slavery in newly acquired territories

Answer 1

Missouri Compromise 1820

Question 2

Slaves revolt in Virginia, Turner, and slaves go around killing 60 whites. Raised fears among Southerners on further uprisings.

Answer 2

Nat Turners rebellion

Question 3

1840-1850, belief that the U.S. is destined by GOD to spread its empire of liberty across North America. JUSTIFIED expansionism.

Answer 3

Manifest Destiny

Question 4

1848, ended the Mexican American war, and the U.S. gained California and southwest territory.

Answer 4

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 5

1846, proposed/failed the law to ban slavery in new territories. FREE STATES

Answer 5

Wilmot Proviso

Question 6

Policy allowing territories to vote and DECIDE on the SLAVERY QUESTION in territories. Opposed by North abolitionists.

Answer 6

Popular Sovereignty

Question 7

1840-1854, party that opposed the extension of slavery in NEW TERRITORIES. It argued that the presence of slavery would LIMIT OPPORTUNITIES for FREE LABORERS.

Answer 7

Free Soil Party

Question 8

1849, Inflow of miners to Northern California after reports of gold at sutters mill in 1848. PROMPTED CALIFORNIANS TO APPLY FOR STATEHOOD.

Answer 8

California Gold Rush

Question 9

1850, Admitted California as a free state, opened New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty, introduced FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. Like most compromises, OPPOSED BY NORTH & SOUTH.

Answer 9

Compromise of 1850

Question 10

1850, mandated RETURN OF SLAVES caught in free states. FORCED NORTH TO ASSIST SLAVERY.

Answer 10

Fugitive Slave Law

Question 11

1854, proposed POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY in Kansas & Nebraska territories. REVOKED 1820 compromise and caused SLAVERY/FREE IMBALANCE.

Answer 11

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 12

1857, DREDD SCOTT CASE that ruled slaves were NOT CITIZENS, CAN’TSUE, and DENIED CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION.

Answer 12

Scott vs Sandford

Question 13

1858, political idea that states could decide slavery through POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY.

Answer 13

Freeport Doctrine

Question 14

1859, JOHN BROWN and others seized a federal arsenal in Virginia. John Brown was captured and hanged by SOUTH TROOPS led by ROBERT E LEE. Alarmed South of North.

Answer 14

Harpers Ferry

Question 15

PRESIDENT LINCOLN ELECTED, demonstrated REPUBLICANS AS OP, and ultimately led to South succession for 1860-1861.

Answer 15

Election of 1860

Question 16

1861, INITIATED CIVIL WAR and Confederates attacked a UNION FORT in SOUTH CAROLINA.

Answer 16

Fort Sumter

Question 17

1862, BLOODIEST DAY in the Civil War. It ended in a tactical draw but was a strategic Union victory that ALLOWED LINCOLN’S EMMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.

Answer 17

Battle of Antietam

Question 18

1863, declared slaves in rebelling states as FREE. ENCOURAGED SOUTH SLAVES TO FLEE TO UNION LINE. Some fleeing slaves even fought with North in the war.

Answer 18

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 19

FREE 1865, CITIZENS 1868, VOTE 1869

Answer 19

13th, 14th, and 15th reconstruction amendments

Question 20

1863, battle in Pennsylvania that ultimately DOOMED CONFEDERACY, as they were never again able to invade the North. BLOODIEST BATTLE.

Answer 20

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 21

1863, Lincoln delivers a speech at the dedication of the cemetery in Gettysburg battlefield. He framed war as a means to UPHOLD THE VALUES OF LIBERTY.

Answer 21

Gettysburg Address

Question 22

1863, 2 and a half months siege of the Confederate fort on the Mississippi River in Tennessee. VICKSBURG FELL to Ulysses S Grant and gave the Union CONTROL OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

Answer 22

Battle of Vicksburg

Question 23

1864-1865, Sherman’s lead march through Georgia to undercut confederates. Targets infrastructure.

Answer 23

Sherman’s march to sea

Question 24

1865, Lincoln emphasized on slavery as a sin, and God punishing both North and South. SHARED RESPONSIBILITY AND RECONCILIATION.

Answer 24

Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address

Question 25

1865-72, created to AID EMANCIPATED SLAVES providing food, education, clothing, etc. Achievements uneven because it depended on the quality of local administrators.

Answer 25

Freedman's Bureau

Question 26

1865-66, restrictive laws enacted by the South immediately after the Civil War, which ultimately FORCED BLACK'S INTO SHARECROPPING.

Answer 26

Black Codes

Question 27

Agricultural system shortly after the Civil War in which landowners gave tools to tenant farmers to harvest in exchange for a portion of the harvested crop. POOR WHITES AND BLACK'S.

Answer 27

Sharecropping

Question 28

1846-1848, the Mexican American war. 1861-1865, the Civl War. 1865-1877, reconstruction period (which ultimately failed)

Answer 28

Timelines

Question 29

The idea of expansion led to the Mexican American war. Newly acquired land caused an imbalance in North and South power, especially with slavery which led to the Civil War. Union wins, but with Lincoln assassination, VP Andrew Jackson from the South gets elected and ruins the accomplishment of the Civil War. Women also left out, so ultimately, reconstruction fails.

Answer 29

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