Define the following with detail: REVIEW FOR CHAPTERS 15, 16, AND 17 TEST 1. Wilmot Proviso A bill passed by the House of Representatives but not by the Senate that would have outlawed slavery in the Mexican Cession area. 2. Fugitive Slave Law 1850 law that helped slave owners recapture slaves from the North 3. Compromise of 1850 In this compromise, California came into the Union as a free state, Congress adopted a stricter fugitive slave law, and the territories obtained from Mexico would be free to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. 4. Kansas-Nebraska Act Allowed people in the territory to decide whether they would be slave or free. A form of popular sovereignty. 5. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom s Cabin 6. Clara Barton The Angel of the Battlefield, helped establish the Red Cross, distributed food and bandages during the Civil War. 7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention 8. James Polk President during Manifest Destiny 9. Henry Clay Legislator who helped develop the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 (as well as the American System). Called The Great Compromiser. 10. James Monroe Established the Monroe Doctrine setting the Western Hemisphere off limits 11. Popular Sovereignty (and its part in the slavery issues) 12. John Brown Abolitionist crusader who was shot at Harper s Ferry attempting to inspire slaves to fight for their freedom. He was hung by the state of Virginia. 13. Marbury v. Madison Court case that established Judicial Review for the Supreme Court 1
14. Dred Scott v. Sanford A landmark ruling that held that slaves were property and could not be citizens. It greatly contributed to the tension leading up to the Civil War. 15. Mcculloch v. Maryland established the broad powers of Congress 16. Worcester v. Georgia Jackson opposed the decision of the Supreme Court regarding his Indian policies. 17. Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy 18. Stephen Douglas Debated Lincoln and a powerful congressman from Illinois 19. Secede When a state withdraws from a country or union. 20. Anaconda Plan Scott s Union plan to choke the Confederacy with blockades. 21. John Fremont First Republican candidate for President (from California) 22. Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln declared the slaves free (emancipated) 23. Total War making war against everything that could support the enemy army 24. Temperance supported the outlawing of alcohol 25. Abolition get rid of slavery 26. Suffrage the right to vote What were some of the decisions and influences of the Supreme Court on the road to the Civil War? In the Dred Scott decision they ruled slavery could not legally be banned in any territory, and declared that the Bill of Rights protected slavery and slaveholders. Discuss the early history of the Republican Party. Formed by Northerners who wanted to keep slavery from expanding out of the South. 2
Which states seceded prior to the Civil War? Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia Know the dates for: Compromise of 1850-1850 Dred Scott Decision 1857 Lincoln Douglas Debates - 1858 Battle at Fort Sumter April 1861 First Battle of Bull Run July 1861 Battle of Shiloh April, 1862 Battle of Antietam September 1862 Emancipation Proclamation January 1863 Battle of Gettysburg July 1863 Battle of Vicksburg July, 1863 Gettysburg Address November 1863 Sherman s March to the Sea March, 1864 Texas enters USA as state - 1845 California enters USA as state 1850 in the Compromise of 1850 Oregon enters USA as state February, 1859 Kansas enters USA as state January, 1861 Nebraska enters USA as state March, 1867 What were the border states at the start of the Civil War? Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Delaware, and Missouri What were the economic differences between the North and the South at the start of the Civil War? The North had more manufacturing than the South, the North had more railroad and transportation systems, the North had a more diverse economy (the South was focused on King Cotton). Plantation farmers in the South needed cheap slave labor to earn more money from cotton production. 3
What were Union advantages at the beginning of the Civil War? More factories, more miles of railroad, and a stronger Navy What were Confederate advantages at the beginning of the Civil War? Better Generals and stronger fighting spirit Briefly discuss key Union and Key Confederate generals? Union (North) George Meade, Ulysses S. Grant was the last commander of the Union Army, William T. Sherman Confederate (South) Robert E. Lee (Fought in the Mexican War, Won at the battles of Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg, Surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Commander of the Confederate Army), Stonewall Jackson (lost his left arm in battle), P.G.T. Beaugregard, Longstreet List the states that fought with the Union and the states that fought with the Confederacy: Union Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Oregon, California, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York, Maine Confederate South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee List the key aspects of the war strategies of the Union and the Confederacy: Union To capture Richmond, Virginia; to divide the Confederacy; to set up a blockade of the ports; to control the Mississippi River; Scott s Anaconda Plan (squeeze the economy of the South) Confederacy First it was defensive, leave us alone, used King Cotton to build bridges to foreign countries, ultimately tried for big victories to wreck Northern morale List some key facts about the following battles or events: First Battle of Bull Run July, 1861 Confederate Victory Shiloh April, 1862 Union Victory (Tennessee) Battle of New Orleans April, 1862 Union won and gained control of the largest city in the South and a major port Second Battle of Bull Run August, 1862 Another defeat for the Union army near Washington DC Antietam September, 1862 Bloodiest day of fighting in USA history Chancellorsville April, 1863 Confederate Victory (Stonewall Jackson was shot by own men) 4
Gettysburg July, 1863 Turning point of the Civil War / Lee suffered defeat (Pennsylvania) Vicksburg July, 1863 Gave the Union Army control of the Mississippi River (Mississippi) Battle of the Wilderness May 1864, part of Grant s Virginia campaign to end the war. Surrender at Appomattox Court House April 9, 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant Discuss technological advances that made the Civil War more deadly: Rifles were much more accurate and deadly yet they fought with much of the same methods as before Not a lot of medical advances - Diseases spread through camps because of unsanitary practices. Why was the Civil War more destructive on the South than the North? Most major battles took place in the South, Sherman s March to the Sea Battle of Fredericksburg December, 1862 Confederate Victory Lincoln was President for the duration of the Civil War and argued in his first Inaugural Address that the government was a Union of the people and not of the states, therefore states could not secede. 5