APUSH Civil War game questions

An enconomic depression in this year motivated many americans to go west in the hopes of better opportunities

Panic of 1837

The Overland trail that 350,000 Americans made by wagonto the Willamette Valey taking 3-6 months

Oregon Trail

Wyat wer 4 of the 8 afflicitions/problems that befell people that ventured west on the oberland trails

Diesese, injury, death, accidents, gunshot wounds, drownings, broken bones, infections

Name for an elitie Spanish or Mexican Resident/Rancher of California

Californios

Location in California where gold was found initially in 1848

Sutters Mill

Nickname for the rapid influx of gold seekers into California during the gold rush

49ers

Number of prospectors who traveled to California after gold was discovered

10s of thousands

What were two traditionsal skills of Chinese men that they brought to California that earned a steadier income than gold panning

cooking and washing clothes

Which Jewish immigrant moved to San Francisco from NYC and made a fortune selling durable canvas denim pants to minors

Levi Strauss

GB, Mexico, The comanche tribe and the US all laid claim to this territory in the early 1840s

Oregon Territory

The Whig Party refused to re-nominate this candidate for President in 1844and instead chose someone else

Not John Tyler but Henry Clay

James Birney became the candidate for this third party in 1844 and opposed annexation of Texas because it was understood it would become a slave state

Liberty Party

John Gast was the artist that created this painting in 1872 that captured the essence of westward expansion

Manifest Destiny

Who coined the term Manifrest Destiny in 1845 in his jounal the Democratic Review

John L. O'Suliivan

Wheredid President Polk agree to settle the boundary between Gristish Canada and the US to avoid a war in 1846

49th parallel

Who was responsible for forging the first trade agreement with Japan in 1854 by threatening war with them if they did not trade with the US.

Commodore Matthew C. Perry

This Plains tibe was once subdued by gifts by the Spanish governement and became aggressive towards MExico in the 1820s because they could not afford to sustain that same level of tribute

Comanche

The Mexican government recognized this northern river as the boundary between Mexico ans the US while the US recognixed this southern river as the boundary causing a dispute

Nueces and Rio Grande

The US sent this diplomat to Mexico to negotiate a border treaty between the 2 nations in 1846

John Slidell

President Polk sent this General and a military force to the disputed territroy between the US and Mexico in 1846 where fighting eventually erupted and the Mexican American war began

Zachary Taylor

President Polk famously asked Congress for a declaration of war in 1846 becaue as he claime American blood….

has been shed on American soil

Who opposed the war with Mexico

Whigs, northern abolitionists,Abraham Lincoln

Who helped lead the Bear Flag Revolt against Mexico and declared that California was a territroy of the US

John Fremont

Whayt was the name of the group of mostly Irish Cotholic immigrants who defected from the US army joined the Mexican Army and were eventually hung for desertion

Batallon de San Patricio

This was the President of Mexico who refused to give up against the US in the Mexican American War but was removed from power so MExico could negotiate

Santa Anna

This was the name of the treaty that ended the Mexican American war in 1848 granting the US the previously claimed Texas, California, and the New Mexico territory for $15 million

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

This was the largest American Indian group in the late 1840s with about 20,000 memberes but was decimated to half that amount by the mid 1850s due to diseaseof white westaward travelers

Comanche

Name 3 of the 5 western trails that wagans trains and traders journeyed on in the 1830s and 1840s

Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, California Trail, Mormon Trail, Old Spanish Trail

This 1846 proposal by a Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania called for slavery to be outlawed in any territoru acquired from Mexico but it failed due tsouthern resistance

Wilmot Proviso

Term fro the people that did not want slavery to spread into the western territories for fear of tis effect on the economic livelihood of small farmers and urban workers although not concerned for the plight of Black Americans

free soilers

Ewis Cass the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President was credited with coining this idea of letting the settlers of a territory decide whether r not a region should be slave or free

popular sovergneity

The Free Soil Party that ran former President Martin Van Buren as their candidate in 1848 and focused on the forbidding slavery to spread in the wst was actually the rebranding of this previous party that had focuesd more on the immorality of slavery

Liberty Party

Name 3 of the 5 provisions of the Compromise of 1850

California is a free state, NM and Utah would be decided by popular soveriegnty, land dispute between NM and texas would be in favor of NM, Texas war debts would be assumed by federal government, Slave trade abolished in DC, more strict fugitive slave law passed

This Act originally passed in1783 and reinforced in 185- was largely ignored by northerneres but mandated that local governemnts seize runaway slaves and return them to their owners

Fugitive Slave Act

This secret networ of routes and safe houses from southern plantations to northern free states and into Canada providing hiding places, transportation, and resources to enslaved people looking for freedom

Underground Railroad

These are the amounts of money that judges would be paid if thet sent an allegged excapeeback into slavery vs if they freed them

$10 vs $5

These were passed in northern states after the fugitive Slave Act was passed to ban statefficials from aiding in the capture and return of accused runaways

personal liberty laws

This pro-expansionist president was elected in 1852 signed the first formal trade agreement with Japan and looked to expand the US into Central American and the Carribean

President Franklin Pierce

The name of an unauthorixed expedition into Cuba by Democrats and private adventurers in the hopes of stirring up a rebellion that would result in the US annexation

filibusters

This proposal to buy Cuba from Spain leaked to the press and arose the anger of norhterners who saw it as a plot to spread slavery

Ostend Manifesto

This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe drew widespread attention for its harrowing depictions of slavery and gain converts to the anti-slavery cause

Uncle Toms Cabin

This thrid party also known as the AMerican Party ran candidates in the 1840s and 1850s that promoted anit-immigrant and anti-catholic messages

Know-Nothing Party

This new political party mostly concentrated n the North formed in 1854 was a combination of Northern Democrats Former Whigs and Free-Soilers that also advicated for internal improvments

Republican Party

This 1854 Act that both negated the MO compromise and previous treaty rights held by American Indians in the Plains but alled for popular sovergneity to decide slavery issure in these territories

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Nickname fro pro-slavery voters who crossed over from Missouri into Kansas to vite earkty and often in the territorial election

border ruffians

Name for the pro-slavery constitution in Kansas that divided on the nation and precipitated violence over support or oppostion of slavery

Lecompton Constitution

Nickname given to this western territoru as a result of the violent conflicts over the fate of slavery in the mid 1850s

Bleeding Kansas

MA senator that was attacked on the floor of the US senate by Preston Brooks for insulting remarks against his uncle and fellow South Carolinian, Andrew Butler

Charles Sumner

This 1856 Republican Presidential candidate was also the leader of the Bear Flag Revolt that aided in the conquest of California from Mexico in 1848

John C. Fremont

Democratic President elected in 1856 due in part to his lock of a stance on the slavery issue brewing the in US but would do little to calm the tensions that developed over the issue

President Buchanan

Enslaved African American who suedfor his freedom after living in free territory for over 5 years

Dred Scott

Location where abolitionist John Brown hoped to forment a slave reellion in Oct of 1959 but was thwarted by federal troops captured and executed

Harpers Ferry Virginnia

3 of 4 candidates that ran in 1860

Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis and John Breckinridge

percentage of popular vote that abraham lincoln got without being on ballot in 10 southern states

just less than 40%

Failed plan introduced by KY senator in 1860 about slavery

Crittenden Plan

6 of 11 confederate states

North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, South carolina,Mississippi, Flordia,Alabama, Georgia, Lousisiana, Texas

Site of first battle of the civil war

Fort Sumter

city became the confederate capital after virginnia seded

Richmond

4 border states that did not secede despite being slave states

Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky

One of the 4 cited authoritian measures taken by Lincoln when war broke out to keep border states from seceding

limited freedom of the press

Number of southern states that seceded after firing on fort sumter

4

What percentage of the US pop livedin the Union at the outset of the war

more than 60%

percentage of factories were in union

85%

Who was the Wash.D.C. socialite who spied for confederacy and helped deliver victory at first major battle in July 1861

Rose Greenhow

Another name for battle of bull run

first manassas

term used by benhamin butler to describe runaway slaves that came into union camps seeking freedom

contraband

Name of Law that claimed that any enslaved person working for Confederate army would no longerbe bound to their enslavers

Confiscation Act

this 1862 battle was the bloodiest in US history led to 23,000 casualites and turned Union attitudes in favor of recruitig African Americans to fight

Battle of Shiloh

This all black regiment that formed shortly after African Americans were allowed to enlist and included all 3 of Fredick Douglas’sons

Massachusetts 54th

It was this bloody victory that allowed for Linclon to issue his Emancipation Procclamation

Battle of Antietam

Unleaved biscuit many union soldiers survived off of

hardtack

How many more soldiers died from disease than combat

for every soldier that died in combat 3 died of disease

death rate of African American soldiers compared to white soldiers

3 times more

what 3 As didn't exisst that made medical fatalities horibble

Antibiotics, Antiseptics, anesthetics

Age range for Condfederate men in all 3 drafts

all white males 17 to 50

What must confederate men do to be exempt from draft

own 20 or more slaves or hire a substitute

what idustry doubled in north with a cut off of cotton imports

woolen

2 jobs for women created because of thiis war

sewing and clerical

this female nurse tended to scores of injured soldiers and helped form the American Red Cross

Clara Barton

nickname for new federal banknotes issued in war to help finnance war effort

greenbacks

EC, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy stone founded organization that demanded Emancipation Act pertain to All African Americans

Womens National Loyal League

Border state that staged gueriila attacks on Union soldiers

Missouri

Law passed in 1863 for draft in Union but could be forgoed with $300

Enrollement Act

Violetn riots broke out in this city in July 1863 which included immigrants who were resetnful of the draft and high nflation

NYC

Rate of inflation in North during civil war

20%

Northern Democrats who opposed the war after the venemos snake

Copperheads

Inflation rate in south that led to food riots by working class women

2,600%

Rallying cry of southern peace movement in 1864 amoung farmers and others and the burdens it created for poor or non slave owning southerners

a rich mans war and a poor mans fight

Key union victory in July 1863 and a turning point in the war and the confederates had an unsuccessful invansion on the north

Battleof Gettysburg

Union Victory after Gettysburg that turned control of Mississippi to Union side

Siege of Vicksburg

Lincoln's famous speech to commorate the dead after at a turning point battle

Gettysburg Address

One time Union commander and candidate for Northern Democrats but lost against lincoln

George B McClellan

Number of African American men that served for the union in the army and navy

200,000

Term for military strategy used by union to attack civilian crops,livestock, feild,and property and undermine supply chains

hard war

300 mile route from atlanta to Savannah that cause 60 mi wide path of destruction to break will of confederacy

Shermans March to Sea

General William Shermans response to plight of African Americans in the south

Feild Order Number 15

One of many acts of violence against natives in 1864 that killed 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho and furthered distrust and beginning decades of conflict

Sand Creek Massacre

Ammendmentthat passed in JAn 1865 that prohibited slavery

13th ammendment

Assasin of Abraham Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth

Term for the process from 1865 to 1877 when ex confederate states were subject to things to be put back into Union

Reconnstriction