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NOTGRASS HISTORY REVIEW 11 & 12

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  • Slave who lost a Supreme Court Decision
    Dred Scott
  • 1848 event in California that heightened the debate over slave territories
    Gold Rush
  • The tendency of people in different parts of the country to have different views
    Sectionalism
  • A Battleground for proslavery and antislavery forces
    Kansas Territory
  • Became president after Taylor's death, supported the Compromise of 1850
    Millard Fillmore
  • Made a vicious speech against slave interests
    Charles Sumner
  • who won the 1860 election
    Lincoln
  • A proposed ban on slavery in territory acquired from Mexico
    Wilmot Proviso
  • The Forbidding in the HOR of petitions regarding the abolition of slavery in DC
    Gag Rule
  • Senator from South Carolina who defended slavery
    John C. Calhoun
  • A collection of provisions organized by Henry Clay to avoid disunion
    Compromise of 1850
  • What happened when Lincoln tried to resupply Fort Sumter?
    Confederate forces fired upon the fort
  • An expression of US interest in buying Cuba
    Ostend Manifesto
  • Led a raid against Harper's Ferry Arsenal
    John Brown
  • Which two states saw the most battles during the Civil War?
    Virginia and Tennesee
  • This called for the right to take slaves into all the territories
    Nasville Convention
  • After the confederacy was form, slavery was only practiced in those states, T or False?
    False, how many union states practiced slavery and can you name them?
  • What were the strategies of the Anaconda Plan?
    Defend DC, Attack Richmond, Blockade the confederate ports, divide the confederacy by its major rivers
  • Republican Presidential Candidate in 1856
    John C. Fremont
  • what was the first battle of the civil war called and what was the outcome?
    Battle of Bull Run, it was a confederate victory
  • Democrat elected President in 1856
    James Buchanan
  • which state seceded from the union following the 1860 election?
    South Carolina
  • The Confederates hoped to
    hold the North to a stalemate and obtain a negotiated peace
  • Part of the Compromise of 1850 to which many Northerners objected
    Fugitive Slave Law
  • A confederate government was formed in February 1861 in what city?
    montgomery alabama
  • Letting settlers in a territory decide for themselves whether or not to admit slavery
    Popular Sovereignty
  • How many states made up the confederate states?
    11
  • The "Great Compromiser" senator from Kentucky
    Henry Clay
  • Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
    Jefferson Davis
  • Senator from Illinois who debated Lincoln
    Stephen Douglas
  • Gifted orator, senator from Massachusetts
    Daniel Webster
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