HIS Final review

Utah & New mexico were organized based on

Popular soverignty

Union

Confederacy

Prominent Western territories are?

Louisiana Purchase

Utah & New Mexico territories

Southern States

Who Crafted the compromise of 1850?

Ulysses S. Grant

Stephen Douglass

Henry Clay

Robert E. Lee

Issue before the compromise of 1850

Union wanted more free states

South wanted slavery to be abolished

If California was a free states, it would upset the sectional balance of power in the state

There were too many runaway slaves which brought about the Fugitive Slave Act

Confederacy slave states

Deleware, Maryland, NJ, Ohio, Illinois

Kentucky, Virginia, Louisiana, Virginia, Texas, FL

Union Free states

Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, NJ

Kentucky, Virginia, Louisiana, Texas, FL

Free soil party were:

Northern Whigs who broke away and formed a new political party

People who wanted every state to have popular soverignty

Fugitive Slave Act was:

An act that forced officials to capture and turn in runaway slaves for incentives

If a slave escaped to a free state, they would automatically become citizens

Offered property for the capturing of a runaway slave

A group of slaves escaping slavery

What did "bleeding kansas" refer to

The territory became ground zero for the class between pro and anti slavery factional fighting

A time when many runaway slaves escaped to Kansas but were captured

The location of the underground railroad

How was the anaconda strategy used/looked

Like an anaconda a "snake like" formation that blocked the ports from Texas to the northern territories

Where the confederates would sneak attack the union along the Ohio river

A war strategy of attrition

What is "conscription"?

A compulsory enlistment for the armed forces

A way to get out of fighting in battle

A prescription used for war vets

What are "confiscation laws"

An act that made it legal to confiscate anyones property who supposed the rebellion

The right to take away armed forces guns and weapons

A law that lincoln enacted to confiscate property of those who supported the rebellion

What is "attrition"?

A military strategy

A military strategy used to wear down the enemy and deprive them of personnel and materials

A war strategy the confederates used to ambush the union

Border states remained in the:

Confederacy

Union

Utah & New Mexico territories

States west of the mississippi

Stephen Douglas:

Helped write the compromise of 1850

Set up the Kansas-Nebraska act

Led the union into battle

Led confederacy into battle

What did the emancipation proclamation say

Slavery was abolished

All slaves in the southern states were freed

All slaves in union states are freed

Every slave that was apart of the southern rebellion were free

What happened at Appomattox (1865)

Ulysses S. Grant surrenders the union to Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee surrenders the union to Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant surrenders the confederacy to Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee surrenders the confederacy to Ulysses S. Grant

14th amendment states:

All men are given the right to vote

A person cannot be denied the right to life, liberty and property

It abolished slavery

13th amendment stated:

It abolished slavery

A person cannot be denied the right to life, liberty and property without due process

All men were given the right to vote

15th Amendment:

Gave all men the right to vote

A person cannot be denied the right to life, liberty and property

It abolished slavery

The Kansas-Nebraska act

Allowed people to decide whether or not to allow slavery within their borders (popular sovereignty)

Was caused by the enactment of the Missouri compromise

Allowed slaves to become free if they escaped to slave states

All territories west of the Mississippi were free

The Dred Scott case:

Stated that a man does not become free if taken into a free state

Africans descended from slavery can never be a citizen

Congress can bar slavery from a territory at any time

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