Unit 6 Original Flashcards
What Act made it possible for slavery to move into territory north of 36-30 line?
Hint: Named afte 2 states.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What railroad connected the East Coast to the West Coast?
Hint: Across-
Transcontinental Railroad
Hint: Trans- means Across; Across the Continent
What are the 3 causes of the civil war?
- Federal Power
- Westward Expansion
- Slavery
How did Lincoln force states to choose sides after Fort Sumter?
Hint: What is needed to fight a war?
Made them send in troops
Hint: Need troops to fight a war
Why was it important to keep Maryland in the Union?
Hint: What’s the most important place in the US?
Prevent Washington DC from being surrounded
What fort was attacked starting the Civil War?
Hint: Total end to peace
Fort Sumter
Hint: Sum- means total, like in math
What was a last-ditch effort attempting to avoid war between states?
Hint: How do you avoid fights?
Crittenden Compromise
Hint: Compromises are used to avoid fights
What state was the first to secede?
Hint: Starts with S…
South Carolina
Hint: South Carolina
What did the southern states create by seceding?
Hint: Together Treaty
Confederate States of America
Hint: Con- means Together; -Fed means Treaty
What was the main point of the Republican Party platform?
Stop westward expansion of slavery
How did the South “protest” Lincoln’s candidacy?
Hint: How do you stop someone from being elected?
Didn’t put him on ballot
Hint: You can’t be elected if not on the ballot
True or False: Lincoln was an abolitionist.
False
What state had a mini civil war between slave owners and abolitionists took place?
Hint: What is a result of war?
“Bleeding” Kansas
Hint: Bodies bleed in wartime
Who was taken by his owner into a free state and sued for his freedom?
Hint: State, Sued
Dred Scott
Hint: State, Sued
Who was a violent white abolitionist that murdered at least five slave owners in Kansas?
Hint: Song
John Brown
Hint: John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave,
His soul’s marching on.
What did John Brown raid due to his plans to start a slave rebellion?
Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry
Who did Lincoln run against and lose to after a series of debates?
Hint: Series of Debates
Stephan Douglas
Hint: Stephan Douglas
What is the word for someone who dies for a cause?
Martyr
How was Charles Sumner almost killed by Preston Brooks on the floor of Congress?
Hint: Charles Sumner Congress
Caned
Hint: Caned
What compromise in 1820 designated what parts of the Louisiana Territory would be free or slave?
Hint: State after Louisiana
Missouri
Hint: M comes after L
To appease the North, this was proposed to make all land from Mexico be free.
Hint: Proposed
Wilmot Proviso
Hint: Proviso
After the Mexican-American War, the US owned land from…
Hint: East to West
The Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
What political group wanted to keep the West for whites so that they did not have to compete for jobs?
Free Soil Party
What is another word for letting the people rule?
Hint: A lot of people like
Popular Sovereignty
Hint: Popul- means people
Who faced strong Nativism in California?
Asians
Why were people drawn to California in 1848?
Hint: What is 1849 California known for?
Gold Rush
Did California want to be a slave or free state?
Free
What agreement gave the U.S. stronger fugitive slave laws?
Compromise of 1850
Who were settlers that traveled out West using routes like the Oregon Trail?
Hint: Across
Overlanders
Hint: Over- means across
What book angered the North and led to hatred of slavery?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What prevented war with England?
Oregon Treaty
Name California’s revolution for its own independence.
Hint: California’s flag
Bear Flag Revolt
Hint: Look up California’s flag
The United States believed our border with Mexico went to the Rio Grande River while Mexico believed it only went to the ___________.
Hint: Letter after M
Nueces River
Hint: Mexico, Nueces River
Annexing Texas angered what two groups of people?
Hint: M & N
- Mexicans
- Anti-Slave Northerners
Hint: Mexicans and Northerners
Why did the Mormons go westward?
Hint: What is Mormonism?
Start a new religion
Who was the “Expansion President”?
James Polk
What was the idea that Americans had a God-given right to conquer and civilize North America?
Manifest Destiny
Why did the U.S. easily capture Mexico City the capital of Mexico?
It was unguarded
What treaty led to the U.S. acquiring the Northern half of Mexico?
The Treaty of Hidalgo Guadalupe
