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1. ___________ was the idea that the citizens of each new territory should be allowed to
decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery or not.
2. Because of his role in promoting the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and solving the
nullification crisis in 1833, Henry Clay was nicknamed "The Great Compromiser."
3. Many historians consider Uncle Tom's Cabin, by _______, to be a cause of the Civil War.
4. Anger over the Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in a new coalition that became the
_______________ Party.
5. The politician who said "a house divided against itself cannot stand" was _____________.
6. The dissolution of the Union began with the secession of the state of ________________.
7. The Confederacy chose ____________________ as its president.
8. Viewing any opposition to the war as treason, Republicans referred to the Peace
Democrats as ___________________.
9. The _________________ was among the first African American regiments officially
organized in the North, and fought valiantly at Fort Wagner near Charleston, SC.
10. __________ was an important nurse soldiers to on the battlefields of the Civil War.
11. _______________ Charge at Gettysburg resulted in the slaughter of Confederate troops.
12. The famous quote "a nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal" was part of the ____________________.
13. Before burning ____________________, General Sherman ordered all civilians to leave.
14. Lee surrendered to Grant at _________________________.
15. Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction offered a general _______, or pardon, to
Southerners who abided by certain conditions.
16. After emancipation, former slaves became known as ____________________.
17. Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction were called __________.
18. White Southerners who supported Reconstruction were called _________________.
19. Gaining money illegally through politics is called ____________________.
20. The _______________ was a secret society formed to fight against Republicans &
Reconstruction; later it sought to deprive African Americans of their rights.
21. Most tenant farmers became ____________, who paid a share of their crops to cover
rent and other costs.
22. People who moved to California looking for gold were called ________________.
23. Political and economic division of the country was known as ________________
24. ________________ believed that slavery should not extend into the territories.
25. The ____________ was a political party started to stop the expansion of slavery into
the territiories.
26. In 1820 the ________________ drew a line to show where slavery could spread.
27. ______________ by Harriet Beecher Stowe described the evils of slavery.
28. The ___________________ said the land gained from Mexico would be closed to slavery.
29. The ___________________ admitted California as a free state, gave the South a strong
fugitive slave law , & established popular sovereignty for territories.
30. ______________ the idea that the people should vote to determine the future of slavery.
31. The ________________ was passed to help Southern states captured escaped slaves.
32. ________________________ was a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
33. The _______________________ was a network of safe houses to help escaped slaves.
34. In ______________ pro-slavery and abolitionist groups actually shed blood.
35. ___________________ was the abolitionist who raided Harper’s Ferry.
36. The ______________ case made slavery legal all over the US.
37. ___________ and __________ ran in the 1858 Illinois Senate race and ________ won.
38. Lincoln belonged to the ____________________ Party.
39. The _____________ Doctrine was Douglas’ idea that slavery couldn’t exist without
supporting laws; it cost him the support of Southern Democrats.
40. Large population, resources, industries and better transportation were ___________
advantages.
41. Motivation and military leadership were __________________ advantages.
42 _____________ was elected president in 1860
43. The ____ Southern states who left the Union called themselves the _________________.
44. __________ was the US president during the Civil war; ___________ was the CFA leader.
45. Slave states that stayed with the Union were called _______________
46. The _______________Plan was designed to cut the Confederacy into two parts and cut
off all its trade with other nations.
47. _________ was the leading Confederate general; __________ the Union general.
48. The attack on Ft. ______________ was where the Civil War began.
49. ________________ the first real battle of the Civil War.
50. ________________ was the single deadliest day of the Civil War.
51. Lincoln’s ________________ officially freed all slaves being held in enemy territory in
the Civil War.
52. ___________________ was the turning point of the Civil War.
53. The __________________ was the speech given by Lincoln after the battle at Gettysburg.
54. _______________ was the battle where the Union was able to split the South by
capturing control of the _________________ River,
55. ____________________ was the General that led a destructive March through the South.
56. At ________________, _________ surrendered to ________________ to “end” the Civil War.
57. Money given for joining the Union Army was called _______________
58. _______________________ was the worst POW camp found in the South.
59. _________________ was the head of the Union Army nursing corps and started the
American Red Cross.
60. The period after the Civil War was called ____________________
61. _____________ Plan was to bring the country unite as soon as possible by being as
forgiving as possible.
62. ______________________ is when the President forgives a group of people.
63. The ________________________ wanted to punish the South for the war.
64. The ___________ Bill required the majority of white Confederates take an oath of
allegiance to the Union.
65. The ________________________ divided the former Confederacy into military zones.
66. ____________ assassinated Abraham Lincoln, & was a Confederate sympathizer.
67. _______________ became President when Lincoln was assassinated, & was the first
President to be impeached, but was not found guilty.
68. The _______ Amendment banned slavery.
69. The _____ Amendment defined citizenship and guaranteed due process to all.
70. The ________ Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote.
71. __________________ paid rent for the land they worked.
72. _______________ worked the land for a share of the crop.
73. The _______________ was a reconstruction agency formed to help war torn areas of the
south and to help former slaves adjust to their new lives.
74. __________________________ were laws restricting the activities of African Americans.
75. _________________ laws were passed during and after Reconstruction that officially
segregated the races in the north and south.
76. The separation of the races is called __________________
77. ______________________ ended Reconstruction, it allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to
win the electoral college & therefore the presidency; federal troops leave the South.
78. In order to raise money to operate, the federal government imposed a ______ in 1789.
80. ______________ is the idea that states can declare federal laws unconstitutional.
81. Many people said the _____________ did not give the federal government the power
to create a national bank.
82. The Star Spangled Banner was written after the British bombed Fort McHenry in
Baltimore during the war of ___________.
83. ___________ powers were created by the Constitution’s “necessary & proper” clause.
84. In the Adams-Onis Treaty, _______ gave ____________ to the US.
85. The __________________ connected Buffalo to Albany in 1825.
86. Gibbons v. Ogden insured that federal law would be supreme in interstate __________.
87. In Worcester v Georgia the Supreme Court said the ___________ could keep their land.
88. The Webster-Ashburton Treaty established a firm boundary between Maine & ______.
89. The idea that God had given the continent to the US was called ________________.
90. _______________ helped to open up trails to the west for settlers.
91. Parts of Oregon were claimed by the US and ______________.
92. Because the first pioneers didn’t own the land they settled on they were called _____.
93. Mexicans invited American to move into _________ because their citizens didn’t want
to live there.
94. The thousands of settlers who moved to California during the gold rush were _______.
95. Lincoln didn’t want ________ to secede because it would mean that the capital would
be surrounded.
96. The _____________ Proviso wanted to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession.
97. _______________________ was the idea that the people in the territories should decide
whether to be free or slave.
98. Jefferson Davis wanted to avoid large _________ & let the North exhaust itself.
99. Democratic presidential candidate McCelland promised to _______________ if elected.
100. Many members of Congress rejected the elected southern members because they
had been former _________________________.