History quiz chapters 13-14

the first Whig President

William H. Harrison

1850s term for northerners who supported the South

“Doughfaces”

Former slave who became leading Black abolitionist

Frederick Douglass

Major river that divided free and slave states

Ohio

Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet B. Stowe

Compromise of 1850 clause the South celebrated

Fugitive Slave Law

1839 political party demanding an end to slavery

Liberty

Abraham Lincoln’s first political party

Whigs

the 1848 peace treaty that ushered in the Civil War

Guadalupe Hidalgo

The free state in the 1820 Missouri Compromise

Maine

A leading female Black abolitionist

Sojourner Truth

Supreme Court decision that made Blacks “property”

Dred Scott

Congressman who tried to abolish slavery in MO

James Tallmadge

A slave state added to the Union in 1845

Florida

Authored the 1850 Compromise

Henry Clay

President who brought in TX and Oregon Country

James K. Polk

Political party formed to keep slavery out of Mexican Cession

Free Soil

The political party that embraced slavery

Democratic

First western hemisphere nation to end slavery

Haiti

This 1803 land purchase doubled the U.S size

Louisiana

President of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

Major 3-day battle in 1863 in Eastern theater

Gettysburg

Where draft riots occurred in 1863

New York City

The first top commander of the Union forces

George B. McClellan

Where the Civil War started in 1861

Fort Sumter

Devised the “Anaconda Plan” for the North

Winfield Scott

One of 4 states that left the Union when war erupted

Virgina

Battle that produced the Emancipation Proclamation

Antietam

Declared “contraband of war” by Gen. Ben E. Butler

Runaway slaves

Fought for the Union in over 400 battles/skirmishes

USCT

Peace Democrats in the North

“copperheads”

The first major battle of the war

Bull Run

Key battle for black Union soldiers

Fort Wagner

Northern Democratic candidate for President in 1860

Stephen Douglas

The first state to secede from the Union in1860

South Carolina

What most former slaves did for work after the war

Sharecropping

Part of the 1862 Whig economic pledge

Morrill Act

The Republican candidate for President in 1860

Abraham Lincoln

March to the sea (Atlanta to Savannah)

William T. Sherman

A border state throughout the war

Maryland