Abeka US History: Chapters 15-16 Test Review

Who was the nominee of the Southern Democrats for the presidency in 1860?

John C. Breckenridge

The abolitionist who attacked a settlement at Pottowatomie Creek, Kansas

John Brown

Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?

Henry Clay

How did slavery affect Southern Industrialism?

Slavery forced wages down, causing potential factor workers to seek employment in the North instead.

How did the results of the Kansas-Nebraska act demonstrate the shortcomings of popular sovereignty?

Kansas became a battleground between abolitionists and proslavery invaders.

In Dred Scott v. Sanford, how did the Supreme Court rule?

Scott was still a slave because slaves were property that Congress could not Constitutionally seize and make free.

Lincoln's first inaugural address message

He said he did not intend to interfere with slavery in the places where it already existed.

President of the Confederacy during the Civil War

Jefferson Davis.

Sponsor of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill

Stephen A. Douglas.

Published The Liberator

William Lloyd Garrison.

President who attempted to buy Cuba

Franklin Pierce

Network of escape routes for slaves

The Underground Railroad

Best known leader of the escape routes

Harriet Tubman.

The military commander sent to stop the raid at Harper's Ferry.

Robert E. Lee

General who led the "March to the Sea."

William Tecumseh Sherman

Earned the nickname "Stonewall"

Thomas Jonathan Jackson

Turning point of the Civil War

Battle of Gettysburg

Actor who assasinated President Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth

The representative of the YMCA and the Christian Commission who spent much time witnessing to the Union and captured Confederate troops

D. L. Moody

Abolished slavery permanently from the United States

13th Amendment

Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant met at ______ to discuss terms of surrender.

Appomattox Court House

Harriet Beecher Stowe's book that portrayed the dreadful abuses of slave life.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The name given to the conflict in Kansas between antislavery and proslavery settlers.

Bleeding Kansas

Declared that if Spain refused to sell Cuba, the United States would be justified in seizing the island from Spain.

The Ostend Manifesto

1854

Formation of the Republican Party.

1860

Republicans win their first election.

April 12, 1861

Fort Sumter is attacked; Civil War begins.

January, 1863

Emancipation Proclamation.

July, 1863

Battle of Gettysburg.

April 9, 1865

Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House.

North's advantages

Abundant resources, large population, more capital, more factories, more skilled laborers, and better transportation facilities.

South's advantages

Head start in preparing for war, knowledge of the land, and fighting for a cause they believed in.

South's disadvantages

Did not have the resources to fight an extended war.