Review Game

1. Review Game

2. Popular sovereignty • ___________________________________ ______________________________ means that the people of a territory should determine for themselves whether or not to permit slavery.

3. slavery • In the election of 1848, what was the response of the Whig and Democratic parties ignored the issue of _________________________________.

4. California • Why was there a need for a quick formation of an effective government in ________________________ due to the very large and unruly population drawn into the state by the discovery of gold.

5. Fugitive Slave Laws • The existence of the “Underground Railroad” added to southern demands for stricter ______________ _____________ _______________.

6. Clay & Webster • Henry _______________ and Daniel __________________ were two notable advocates of compromise in the controversy over slavery in 1850.

7. California, Utah, New Mexico • According to the Compromise of 1850 ____________________ was admitted to the Union as a free state, and slavery in __________________ and _____________________________ territories would be left up to popular sovereignty.

8. President Taylor • The final battle to gain passage of the Compromise of 1850 was substantially aided by whose death?

9. Nicaragua and Cuba • Southerners seeking to expand the territory of slavery undertook filibustering military expeditions to acquire which 2 countries?

10. Japan • The primary goal of Commodore Matthew Perry’s treaty in 1854 was open trade with which country?

11. Missouri Compromise • Northerners especially resented Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act because it repealed which compromise prohibiting slavery in the Northern Territories?

12. Senate • The proposed admission of California directly in the Union was dangerously controversial since California was a free state it would destroy the balance of free states and slave states in the _________________.

13. Northern • Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin greatly strengthened _______________ anti-slavery feeling.

14. Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. • The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into violent antislavery politics by killing five proslavery settlers at ____________________________________________________. (location).

15. Republican • The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for the dramatic rise of the _______________________ party, even though they didn’t win..

16. Dred Scott • A key issue in the Lincoln–Douglas debates was whether the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the ______________________________ decision.

17. North • Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because they believed Brown’s violent abolitionist sentiments were shared by the whole _________________________.

18. 7 • Within two months after the election of Lincoln, __________ (number) southern states had seceded and formed the Confederate States of America.

19. supplies/provisions • Lincoln’s plan for the besieged units in Fort Sumter was to provide _______________________ for the garrison but not to reinforce it.

20. Ft. Sumter • The firing on _____________________________________ had the effect of arousing Northern support for a war to put down South’s “rebellion.”

21. Virginia, Arkansas, and Tennessee. • Among the states that joined the Confederacy only after Lincoln’s call for troops were _____________________________, ______________________________, ___________________________.

22. Union, Slaves • Lincoln at first declared that the war was being fought only to save the __________________________ and not to free the _____________________________.

23. Missouri, WV, Delaware, KY, Maryland • What were the 5 boarder states?

24. Ohio, South • The term “Butternut region” refers to the areas of southern ________________, Indiana, and Illinois that sympathized with the ________________________ and opposed an antislavery war.

25. South • In the Indian Territory (Oklahoma), most of the “Five Civilized Tribes” supported the ______________________.

26. South • Among the potential advantages of the __________________________ at the beginning of the Civil War were better-trained officers and soldiers.

27. Egypt, India • The South’s weapon of “King Cotton” failed to draw Britain into the war on the side of the Confederacy because the British found sufficient cotton from previous stockpiles and other sources like _____________ and __________________.

28. Britain • The success of the Confederate raider Alabama highlighted the issue of _____________________ (country) un-neutral policy of allowing Confederate ships to be built in its naval yards.

29. Lincoln, Union • ________________________ argued that his assertion of executive power and suspension of certain civil liberties was justified because it was necessary to set aside small provisions of the Constitution in order to save the ___________________________.

30. shoddy • Many of the new millionaires who emerged in the North during the Civil War made their fortunes by providing poorly made “_____________________________” goods to the Union armies.

31. Women • ________________________________ made particular advances during the Civil War by entering industrial employment and providing medical aid for soldiers on both sides.

32. Popular Sovereignty • ______________________ ______________________________ in Kansas led to "bleeding Kansas"

33. Missouri Compromise • The Dred Scott decision led to an overturn of the ________________________ _______________________.

34. Reconstruction • Lincoln's death resulted in movement toward a harsher ____________________________.

35. Congress • Radical Republicans wished to have __________________________ in charge of Reconstruction

36. Underground RR • The purpose of the so-called "_____________________________________________________________" was to help runaway Southern slaves escape to the North

37. Frederick Douglas • __________________________ ________________________ was a prominent black abolitionist?

38. Personal Liberty • ____________________ ___________________________ laws were designed to forbid state officials from assisting in the capture of runaway slaves

39. Gadsden Purchase • One of the principle purposes for the __________________________ _______________________ was facilitate a Southern route for the transcontinental railroad

40. Copperhead • During the Civil War the term "_________________________________" referred to Northern peace Democrats.

41. Freedman’s Bureau • The original purpose of the ________________________ _______________________ was to assist blacks in their transition from slaves to freedmen.

42. House of Representatives • In addition to abolishing slavery, the 13th Amendment had the effect of increasing the representation of former slave states in the __________________________ _____ ______________________________.

43. 14th • The ____________ Amendment provided a definition of citizenship and equal protection for all citizens under the law.

44. Scalawags • During Reconstruction, the term ______________________ was used to refer to white Southerners who supported Republican Reconstruction.

45. Union • The Civil War began as an attempt to preserve the ______________________________.

46. Congress • In Dred Scott v Sanford the Supreme Court held that _______________________ had the power to ban slavery in the territories.

47. Free Soilers • Individuals who opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories because they feared its effect on the labor system were known as ______________________________________________.

48. South Carolina • ________________________________ was the first state to secede from the Union.

49. Boarder States • President Lincoln was reluctant to emancipate the slaves in the first years of the Civil War because he feared that emancipation would drive the ______________________________ out of the Union.

50. British • One of the most threatening problems for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was possible _________________ recognition of the Confederacy.