Key Events and Figures in Pre-Civil War America

1848 election winner

Zachary Taylor

General Cass war veteran of

War of 1812

1848 election winner

Zachary Taylor

General Cass war veteran of

War of 1812

Zachary Taylor's party

Whig

Zachary Taylor war hero in

Mexican-American War

General Zachary Taylor won which election

1848

Popular Sovereignty

Settlers determine free or slave status

Party organized by anti-slavery men in 1848

Free Soil

Party foreshadowed by Free Soil Party

Republican

Year Martin Van Buren elected President

1836

Martin Van Buren's was who's vice president

Andrew Jackson

Martin Van Buren's party

Democratic

Event causing mass migration to California in 1848

Gold Rush

Main goal of Underground Railroad

Helped slaves escape to North and Canada

People aiding slaves in Underground Railroad

Conductors

Harriet Tubman's nickname

Moses

Leader of Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

Part of Compromise of 1850 that upset abolitionists

Fugitive Slave Act

Law known as the "bloodhound law"

Fugitive Slave Act

Proposer of Compromise of 1850

Henry Clay

State Henry Clay was from

Kentucky (born in Virginia)

President after Taylor's death

Millard Fillmore

President who signed Compromise of 1850

Millard Fillmore

State made free by Compromise of 1850

California

Abolished in Washington D.C. by Compromise of 1850

Slave trade

States under popular sovereignty in Compromise of 1850

Utah and New Mexico

Most controversial part of Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Act

1852 election winner

Franklin Pierce

Democratic candidate in 1852 election

Franklin Pierce

President with Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War

Franklin Pierce

Purpose of Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

Prevent US/UK control of Central America canal

Country with Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

United Kingdom

Destination of Matthew C. Perry's dispatch

Japan

Reason for Matthew Perry to go to Japan

Open trade with US

Ostend Manifesto purpose

Reasoning for US purchase of Cuba from Spain

President of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis

State Jefferson Davis was from

Mississippi

Document giving US northern Mexico tip

Gadsden Purchase

Debates involving Lincoln and whom before 1860 election

Stephen A. Douglas

Creator of Kansas-Nebraska Act

Stephen Douglas

Slavery decision left to who by Kansas-Nebraska Act

Residents of the states

Act repealing Missouri Compromise of 1820

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Court case deeming Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

Dred Scott case

Author that showed the North slavery's wickedness

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Lincoln's reference who when he said "the little woman who wrote the book that made this war"

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Book highlighting slavery's social problems in 1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Abolitionist leading Harper's Ferry raid in 1859

John Brown

Massacre organizer in Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

John Brown

Where did John Brown have 5 proslaveryites to pieces

Pottawatomie Creek

Location of Pottawatomie Creek

Kansas

Lecompton Constitution contents

Protecting slaveholding, excluding black people from rights

Deliverer of 'Crime against Kansas Speech'

Charles Sumner

Assaulter of Sumner post-speech

Preston Brooks

1856 clash showing North-South slavery tensions

Brooks-Sumner Affair

Congressman attacking Charles Sumner

Preston Brooks

Preston Brooks state

South Carolina

1856 election winner

James Buchanan

Major Supreme Court decision during Buchanan's start

Overturning Missouri Compromise/Dred Scott decision

Buchanan's political party

Democrats

Dred Scott case Supreme Court ruling

Missouri Compromise unconstitutional & black citizenship illegal

Case deeming 1820 compromise unconstitutional

Dred Scott Case

Dred Scott case influence on South succession

Expanded slavery in America

Famous Lincoln-Douglas debate on slavery

Douglas Freeport Doctrine

Dred Scott's significance and action

Enslaved man suing for freedom in free soil state

Chief Justice in Dred Scott Decision

Roger Taney

Chief Justice offending antislaveryites in Dred Scott

Roger Taney

1857 Supreme Court case ruling Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

Dred Scott vs. Sanford

Slave suing for freedom based on free soil residence

Dred Scott

Number of Lincoln-Douglas debates

Seven

Originator of 'Freeport Doctrine'

Stephen A. Douglas

Freeport Doctrine statement

State can prevent slavery by legislation

Federal arsenal attacked by John Brown in 1859

Harper's Ferry

Year Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, & Bell ran for president

1860

Lincoln's first presidential win year

1860

First state to secede from the union

South Carolina

Confederate States of America President

Jefferson Davis

Fort Sumter state location

South Carolina

Which city was the capital of the South when they first seceded

Montgomery, Alambama

Border States

Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri

Did Border States allow slavery

Yes

Who did Lincoln unofficially ask to command the northern troops

George McClellan

Which battle did "Stonewall" Jackson get his nickname

First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas)

How did "Stonewall" Jackson die

Pneumonia

Anaconda Plan

Strangle the Confederacy with land and sea blockades, gain control of the Mississippi, ambush Confederate capital

What did Lincoln suspend during the Civil War

Writ of Habeus Corpus

First Nationwide Draft in the North

1863

Name of who paid a fee to avoid the Civil War draft

Draft Dodgers

Major city with anti-draft riots due to unequal number of lower class men being drafted

New York City

What battle gave the South a inflated sense of confidence

Bull Run

Leader of Confederate Army

Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee's state

Virginia

Who did Monitor belong to

Union

What ship was created to fight the Merrimack

USS Monitor

What did Lincoln after the battle of Antietam

Issue the Emancipation Proclamation

Battle of Antietam prevented who from entering the war

Britain and France

What state was the battle of Antietam fought in

Maryland

Lincoln drafted this after Antietam

Emancipation Proclamation

What states weren't affected by the Emancipation Proclamation

Border states

Thirteenth Amendment

Abolished slavery

Who won the battle at Gettysburg

The Union