Unit 6 (Antebellum America and the Civil War)

Provide three events that resulted in land acquisition for America from 1775 to 1850.

Revolutionary War, Louisiana Purchase, Adams Onis Treaty, Texas Annexation, Mexican American War, Gadsden Purchase

Identify at least three results of the Kansas Nebraska Act.

Creation of Republican Party, Death of Whig Party, End of Missouri Compromise, Bleeding Kansas, Brooks Sumner Affair

Identify the belief that American had the “god-given”right to expand its influence over new lands.

Manifest Destiny

What was Polk’s rallying cry to obtain more of the Oregon Territory from Great Britain?

54’40” of Fight

Which president won the election of 1844 and dramatically increased land for America in four years by taking land from Mexico?

James Polk

Who did Mexico sell land to and lead American settlers to settle in Texas (part of Mexico at this time) to help solve their debt situation?

Stephen Austin

Identify the Mexican general/president who defeated Americans at The Alamo and fought against America during the Mexican-American War.

Santa Anna

Identity the treaty that gained America all western lands from Mexico after the Mexican American War.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Identify the proposed legislation that would have banned slavery in the Mexican Cession territory if approved.

Wilmot Proviso

Identify the name for all the land gained from Mexico after the Mexican American War.

Mexican Cession

What caused a massive migration to the west coast one year after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Gold Rush

Identify at least three parts of the Compromise of 1850.

CA (free), Mexican Cession (popular sovereignty), DC Slave Trade abolished, stronger fugitive slave law and Texas borders not extend

Identify the author and anti-slavery publication that increased abolitionist thought made shortly after the stronger Fugitive Slave Law was passed.

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Identify the person who proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act.

Stephen Douglas

This rule in Congress forbid the discussion of slavery (abolition of extension) in federal legislation from 1836 to 1850.

Gag Rule

A strategy to end slavery in the country by sending enslaved individuals to Africa to live in Liberia.

Colonization

Identify the fiery abolitionist who killed pro-slavery individuals during the Kansas Civil War.

John Brown

What is the infamously court case where the Supreme Court ruled that enslaved people are property and can not sue for their freedom regardless if they are residing in a “free” state/territory?

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Who did Abraham Lincoln lose to in the 1858 Illinois U.S. Senate race?

Stephen Douglass

What was it called when Stephen Douglas said he supported popular sovereignty over the Dred Scott Decision?

Freeport Doctrine

Identify John Brown’s violent attempt to lead a slave uprising in the South during the year 1859.

Harper’s Ferry Raid

What event caused the secession of Southern states?

Election of 1860

Identify the last ditch attempt to make a compromise to prevent a Civil War that would constitutional amendments where the North could not interfere with slavery in the country.

Crittenden Compromise

Identify the North’s war aim at the start of the Civil War.

Preserve the Union

Identify the north’s military strategy to slowly strangle the South into submission by blockading its coast and dividing it in half.

Anaconda Policy

Identify the turning point event that led to the Emancipation Proclamation and England removing assistance to the Confederate States.

Battle of Antietam

Identify the document that freed ONLY enslaved individuals in the Confederate states but not anywhere else.

Emancipation Proclamation

What violence erupted in the North in response to the Emancipation Proclamation?

New York Draft Riots

How could a southerner become exempt from the draft?

If they owned 20 or more slaves.

How could a northerner become exempt from the draft?

Pay $300 to the federal government

Identify a leading Confederate General who eventually surrendered to Union forces in 1865.

Robert E. Lee

Identify the victorious general that Lincoln finally found to close out the Civil War.

Ulysses S. Grant

With a Union victory, what constitutional amendment abolished slavery in 1865?

13th amendment

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in 1865?

John Wilkes Booth

What event happened from 1861-1865?

Civil War

What event happened from 1845-1848?

Mexican American War

Identify at least three events in the 1850’s that led to the Civil War.

Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act, Republican Party, Dred Scott, John Brown, Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Sumner, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Fugitive Slave Act, Election of 1856, Election of 1860, and so on.

Identify three examples of how Henry Clay tried to resolve sectional tension.

Compromise of 1820

(Missouri Compromise) Nullification Crisis, Compromise of 1850

Henry Clay created an American System that resembled what previous economic plan?

Hamilton’s Financial Plan

What are three events you associated with the 1840’s?

Texas Annexation, Mexican American War, Election of Polk, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexican Cession, Gold Rush, Irish and German Immigration, Know Nothing Party, Seneca Falls Convention, etc.