1. Civil War & Causes – Trashball Review

2. The Compromise of 1850 – explain how these 4 parts of the compromise are connected to slavery.
Washington, D.C.
Run-away slaves
California
Mexican Cession land

3. Washington, D.C. – banned slave trade there
Run-away slaves – passed Fugitive Slave act – crime to help run-aways
California – would become a free state
Mexican Cession land – would allow slavery there

4. First shots of Civil War fired here? Which side instigated?

5. Fort Sumter, and the South

6. What were 2 important outcomes of the Battle of Vicksburg?

7. Split south into 2 parts
Gave North control of Mississippi River

8. An unfortunate event days after Lee surrendered to Grant
An unfortunate event days after Lee surrendered to Grant. African Americans were very uncertain about their future.

9. Lincoln was assassinated

10. Massachusetts Congressman who was against secession.

11. Daniel Webster

12. 3 day battle in PA, and turning point of the Civil War.

13. Gettysburg

14. Explain what a civil war means.

15. Citizens of 1 country divide and fight against one another.

16. Why did the North go to war? What was their goal???

17. Preserve the Union

18. Why did the South go to war?

19. Wanted states’ rights – unhappy with a federal gov’t telling states what to do.

20. Was born in South America
Served in the Union Navy
Received Congressional Medal of Honor

21. Philip Bazaar

22. Member of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment
Received the Congressional Medal of Honor

23. William Carney

24. What is the difference b/w Lincoln’s 1st and 2nd inaugural addresses?

25. 1st written before the war, 2nd written at end of war.
1st trying to avoid war, 2nd trying to get country put back together peacefully

26. What advantages did the North have to fight the war?

27. More railroads – better transportation
Factories – to produce goods/supplies
Higher population – more ppl to fight, replace those who die.

28. Well respected Confederate Leader
Helped win Battle of Bull Run
Earned nickname b/c he held his ground and didn’t move

29. Stonewall Jackson

30. Lincoln said he supported the Fugitive Slave law, what did the law state?

31. Made it a crime for Northerners to help run-away slaves.

32. Which compromise settled the issue of whether or not the lands gained in the Mexican Cession would be free or slave? And… what was the decision?

33. Compromise of 1850 and Slavery was allowed
Extra point – Who wrote the Compromise of 1850???

34. What other compromise did Henry Clay write? What was its purpose?

35. Missouri Compromise
Admit Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Temporarily settled the balance b/w # of free and slave states in Senate.
Slavery NOT permitted North of line 36’30 parallel.

36. Robert E. Lee would not become the leader of the Union army, b/c he loved his home state of VA. What is this an example of?

37. sectionalism

38. Immediately after Lincoln was elected president, what happened?

39. South Carolina seceded

40. 1st major battle after Fort Sumter. Confederate victory in VA.

41. Battle of Bull Run

42. Bloodiest single day of fighting – at this battle in Maryland.

43. Antietam

44. What is the significance of Appomattox?

45. Lee surrenders to Grant, Civil War ends and North wins.

46. 3 important rulings that came from the Supreme Court cases, Dred Scott v. Sanford.

47. Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional
African Americans are not citizens
Congress can NOT ban slavery in territories

48. What does Confederate president, Jefferson Davis discuss in his inaugural address?

49. Reasons why the South should secede.

50. Which of the following had the greatest political impact on slavery?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
John Brown’s Rebellion
Fugitive Slave Law

51. Fugitive Slave Law – which was 1 of 4 parts of the Compromise of 1850

52. Which South Carolina Congressman spoke in favor of states’ rights?

53. John C. Calhoun

54. List 2 important documents written by Lincoln during the Civil War
List 2 important documents written by Lincoln during the Civil War. Explain them.

55. Emancipation Proclamation – freed slaves in the South
Gettysburg Address – commemorated/ honored the dead at the Battle of Gettysburg – since it was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War

56. How were the North and South different economically from each other?

57. North – industrial
South – agricultural = farming

58. Describe the actions of abolitionist, John Brown.

59. Attacked and stole weapons from US armory located in Harpers Ferry, VA with the intention of arming slaves so rebellions on plantations could happen.

60. Only state to form during the Civil War.

61. West Virginia

62. What is unique about border states?

63. They were slave states that STAYED as part of the US during the Civil war. They did NOT secede.

64. Any names to refer to the United States of America during the Civil War.

65. Union
North
Yankees
The Blue
Free States (although not really accurate, b/c slave states did exist in Union)

66. Any names to refer to the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

67. Confederacy
South
Rebels
The Gray
Slave states

68. How is the event “Bleeding Kansas” connected to popular sovereignty?

69. The people living in the territory would be the ones who get to decide whether or not Kansas would be a free or a slave states.