Title: What congressional solution made California a free state and gave popular sovereignty to the New Mex
1What congressional solution made California a
free state and gave popular sovereignty to the
New Mexico and Utah territories?
2Compromise of 1850
3What part of the solution in the Compromise of
1850 upset many northerners (there were five
parts to the solution)?
4Fugitive Slave Act
5What act supported Stephen Douglas gave popular
sovereignty to two territories just west of
Missouri?
6Kansas-Nebraska Act
7What political party was formed in the 1850s
that supported the anti-slavery platform (also,
it is known as the party of Lincoln)?
8Republican
9What famous court case upheld the right of slave
owners as property holders and disallowed slaves
to file court cases?
10Scott vs. Sanford ( Dred Scott decision)
11Who led the massacre at Pattawatomie Creek, NE
and led the raid on the federal arsenal at
Harpers Ferry?
12John Brown
13Who won the presidential election in 1860?
14Abraham Lincoln
15What state was the first to secede from the Union
in 1860?
16South Carolina
17What county in Alabama never seceded from the
Union?
18Winston County
19What state was actually split over the decision
to secede and eventually became two states?
20Virginia (West Virginia)
21What was the most famous of the Black military
units to fight in the Civil War?
2254th Massachusetts
23Which act passed by the by the Republican (during
the Civil War) gave 160 acres of farm land to
anyone who would live on and farm the land for
5-7 years?
24Homestead Act
25What act passed by the Republican (during the
Civil War) gave large land grants to states in
order to fund the development of colleges?
26Morill Land Grant Act
27What did Lincoln pass on Jan. 1, 1863 granting
freedom to slaves in the Confederate states in
rebellion?
28Emancipation Proclamation
29What did Lincoln suspend during the Civil War,
depriving many citizens of their civil rights?
30Writ of Habeas Corpus
31What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
32First Bull Run
33What battle resulted in the single bloodiest day
in the Civil War?
34Antietam
35What major three-day battle did the Confederates
(under Lee) lose in Pennsylvania? Gettysburg
36What battle in Mississippi resulted in a complete
blockade of the south be the Union? Vicksburg
37What Union general captured Atlanta and continued
southeast to Savannah destroying everything in
his path?
38General Tecumseh Sherman
39What famous speech was given by Lincoln at a
consecration ceremony where he reminded Americans
of the basic ideal, All men are created equal?
40Gettysburg Address
41Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Grant in
1865?
42Appomattox Courthouse
43What was the program called that returned
southern states to the Union, rebuilt the Souths
infrastructure, and attempted to protect the
rights of free blacks?
44Reconstruction
45What were the laws called passed by southern
states attempting to control freedmen and keeping
them in a subservient position?
46Black Codes
47What were northerners called who move to the
South, voted Republican and were scorned by
southerners after the Civil War?
48 Carpetbaggers
49What were southerners called that voted
Republican after Civil War?
50Scalawags
51What southern secret society emerged during
Reconstruction that harassed, tormented, and
killed blacks demanding equality?
52Ku Klux Klan