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100 Cards in this Set
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was proposed by Stephen Douglas to promote the building of _________ |
Transcontinental Railroad |
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Prior to the Civil War citizenship was closely linked to _____ |
Race |
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______, formed in 1848, was the first major political party whose charter specifically opposed to slavery |
Free Soil Party |
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The Freedmen's Bureau saw its greatest success in the fields of ______ and _______ |
Education, Health |
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The _____ war marked the first time the U.S. invaded a foreign country |
Mexican/American |
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Under Abraham Lincoln's preliminary Reconstruction plans only ___ precent of the 1860 electorate would have to take an oath of allegiance in order for a confederate state to be readmitted to the Union |
10 |
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_____ was the author of the essay entitled on Civil Disobedience which opposed the Mexican-American War |
Henry David Thoreau |
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One stated purpose of General ______'s march from Atlanta to Savannah was to demoralize the South's civilian population |
Sherman's |
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T/F: ________ the Dred Scott decision was highly criticized throughout the North. |
True |
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Under the legislation known as _______ Kansas and Nebraska would be permitted to decide the slavery issue via popular sovereignty. |
Compromise of 1850 |
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The ______ system kept many sharecroppers and tenant farmers in a state of constant debt and poverty. |
Crop-Lien |
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____ became the destination of choice for the migrating Mormons |
Salt Lake City, Utah |
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T/F: In 1861, when the Union Military commander in Missouri issued orders freeing all slaves in that state Lincoln publicity endorsed the action he even referred to it in his emancipation proclamation |
False |
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As the newly elected president Lincoln's hesitancy in publicity endorsing abolition was due in part by this desire to keep the _________ in the Union |
Border States |
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The Republican "free labor" ideology led to arguments by Lincoln and Seward that ____ and ___ were incompatible |
Free Labor, Slave Labor |
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The ____ would have banned slavery from all lands acquired as a result of the Mexican-American Wae |
Wilmont Proviso |
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In addition to a position opposing the _____ decision, the expansion of slavery, and supporting aid to build a transcontinental railroad the 1860 Republican platform also addressed the issue of free homestead in the West |
Dred Scott |
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T/F: Contrary to popular opinion the Union and the Confederacy both enjoyed a level of parity when it came to military manpower |
False |
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The group that claimed to have rescued the white South from corruption, misgovernment, and northern black control adopted the name ______ |
Redeemers |
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Mormon leader _____ refused to separate church and state |
Joseph Smith |
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T/F: The Freedmen's Bureau was responsible for arranging passage for former slaves back to Africa |
False |
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Economically, the ____ led to the creation of nation-state dedicated to national economic development |
Civil War |
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The January 1848, ______ brought a flood of people to California |
Gold strike at Sutters Mill, California |
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The ____ Amendment guaranteed the right to vote without regard to race |
15th |
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The Emancipation Proclamation was only immediately applicable in those areas held by ______ |
The Union Army |
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In the view of _____ his reconstruction plans should include at least limited black suffrage |
Abraham Lincoln |
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A "Coolie" was a racial epithet in reference to a _______ |
Chinese Worker |
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By the 1860, approximately ______ people has made the trek to Oregon and California |
300,000 |
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The _______ Party was affirmation that antislavery sentiment had spread beyond the abolitionist ranks |
Free Soil Party |
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Jefferson Davis's military strategy was based on the strategic importance of ____ to the world's economy |
Cotton |
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_____ led the Union forces that captured John Brown and his gang at Harper's Ferry |
Colonial Robert E. Lee |
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T/F: The Confederate Constitution was modeled after the U.S. Constitution |
True |
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The 15th amendment guaranteed __________ |
All men the right to vote regardless of race |
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The Battle at ______ was the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War |
Antietam |
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The ____ Act allowed the federal government to override state and local authorities |
Fugitive Slave Act |
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Expansion of slavery was not one of the justifications for the westward movement known as _____ |
Manifest Destiny |
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Andrew Johnson vetoed the ______ because he did not believe blacks deserved citizenship |
1866 Civil Rights Act |
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The abundance of ____ attracted numerous Americans to Texas in the 1820's |
Land for farming |
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The phrase "Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to _____ border dispute |
Northern Oregon |
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T/F: Prior to his election as President Lincoln supported returning fugitive slaves to their owners |
True |
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The ____ Amendment abolished slavery |
13th |
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The growing American presence in Texas led ______ to demand more autonomy for Texas from Mexican officials |
Stephan F. Austin |
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For all practical purposes the election of ____ ended the Reconstruction |
1877 |
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The fighting in ____ would make it the bloodiest year of the Civil War |
1864 |
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______ was the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
Stephen A. Douglas |
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Britain outlawed slavery during the decade of the ______ |
1830's |
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The ______ issued by General Sherman confiscated abandoned Plantation lands and divided it amounts the former slaves |
Special Field Order #15 |
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The term _____ refers to the period in which blacks comprised a legislative majority in South Carolina |
The Prostate State |
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The Crittenden resolution would have extended the ______ line to the west, with: slavery prohibited north of the line and guaranteed south of it |
Missouri Compromise |
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T/F: Andrew Jackson opposed the annexation of Texas fearing it would upset the balance of power between the slave and Free states |
True |
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Lincoln wanted for the victory at ____ before releasing his Emancipation Proclamation |
Antietam |
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The ____ Amendment conferred citizenship on any person born of naturalized in the U.S. |
14th |
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The Whisky Ring scandal occurred during the ____ administration |
Ulysses S. Grant |
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The ____ would have authorized the U.S. to seize Cuba from Spain |
Ostend Manifesto |
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Frederick Douglas saw ____, not as an end, but as a beginning |
Abolition of Slavery |
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________ would prove to be the least successful goal of the radical republican's reconstruction plans |
Land Reform |
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The denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants by the ______ Party attracted some voters |
Know-Nothing |
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Because the incident happened in the disputed area ______ who opposed the Mexican American war requested that President Polk should specify the exact spot where blood had first been shed |
Abraham Lincoln |
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Early on it was determined that the mail aspirations of former slaves was for ______ which would allow them to provide for their families |
Ownership of Land |
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The National Woman Suffrage Association was founded by ______ and _____ |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony |
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Transcendentalist _____ was a very vocal opponent of the Mexican American War |
Henry David Thoreau |
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T/F: Ulysses S. Grant demonstrated a greater understanding of strategy and tactics than any of his predecessors |
True |
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The _____ and the ______ were the first two ironclad warships to engage in combat |
USS Monitor and Merrimac (USS Virginia) |
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The meeting between ____ and a group of black ministers in Georgia resulted in the order that will come to be known as the "Forty acres and a mule" rule |
General William T. Sherman |
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General ______ was characterized as forever overestimating the enemy's strength and stalling for time |
George B. McCellan |
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The actions of ______ during the war helped inspire Republicans to believe that emancipation should also include equality before the law |
Black Soldiers |
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The introduction of the ____ onto the battlefield changed the nature of combat |
Rifle |
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For former slaves political freedoms meant _____ |
The Right to Vote |
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The Union strategy called _____ involved using the naval blockade to "squeeze" the south into submission |
Anaconda |
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The Civil War helped to reinforce the concept that _____ also meant that everyone was entitled to fruits of their |
Definition of Freedom |
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T/F: To most former slaves the concept of freedom was much more than simply the right to vote |
True |
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______ say himself as the new leader of the Senate after the deaths of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster |
Stephan A. Douglas |
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To assist in the much needed economic growth southern states helped to finance _______ |
Construction of Railroads |
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At the first battle of _____ local citizens brought picnic lunches to watch the festivities |
Bull Run |
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_____ is considered to be the author of the Compromise of 1850 |
Henry Clay |
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____ and ____ were the first two black members of the U.S. Senate |
Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce |
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After 1863, black abolitionist ____ urged northern blacks to enlist in the Union Army and fight for freedom |
Fredrick Douglas |
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In 1861, ______ was the first Union commander to decree that all slaves in his jurisdiction were freed |
John C. Fremont |
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Which of the following countries DID NOT go through some sort of popular uprising in 1848 U.S. - Great Britain - France - Russia - Italy |
Russia |
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In a strange sort of twist, with the ____ law, in the Compromise of 1850, normally states-rights southerners were seem as demanding action an involvement by the federal government |
Fugitive Slave Law |
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In Longfellow's "The Warning" poem he compared ______ to the biblical character Samson
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American Slave |
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Lincoln's suspension of the _____ was seen by some as exceeding his constitutional powers |
Writ of Habeas Corpus |
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According to most Constitutional scholars ratification of the ____ Amendment on July 9, 1868, marked the most important change in the Constitution since the adoption of the Bill of Rights |
14th |
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The Republican practice of reminding the voters that it wad Democrats who had orchestrated the secessionist movement was known as ______ |
Waving the bloody shirt |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton maintained that _____ required universal suffrage |
Reconstruction |
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Lack of a ____ political system denied the Confederacy an appreciated opposition |
Opposition Party |
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______ and ____ were the names given to the Northern and Southern republicans who sought to take advantage of political power in the South during Reconstruction |
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags |
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The 1868 Democratic campaign motto of Horatio Seymour and Francis Bliar was ______ |
"This is a white man's Country. Let white men rule" |
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In the first two years of the war most of the fighting took place in the state of _______ |
Virginia |
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The series of extremely restrictive legislative actions taken by some of the early Un-reconstructive southern governments were known as _____ |
The Black Codes |
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Under the ____ any former slave who failed to sign a yearly labor contract would be arrested on vagrancy charges |
Black Codes |
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The economic policies enacted by the _____ increased the size and power of the federal government |
Union |
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The statue known as ____ which sits atop the nation's capitol was assembled under the direction of a slave |
Statue of Freedom |
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____ hoped the Kansas-Nebraska Act would encourage the construction of a transcontinental railroad |
Stephan A. Douglas |
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The declaration of ______ and the suspension of ____ were Lincoln's attempts to curtail wartime dissent |
Martial Law and Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus |
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The ______ would have prohibited slavery in all territories acquired as a result of the Mexican American War |
Wilmont Proviso |
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Compared to the other offerings based on what little we know about Lincoln's Reconstruction plans they can best be described as ______ |
Extremely Lenient |
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The passage of the ___ Amendment split the feminist movement into two major organizations |
15th |
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The ______ and _____ denominations had the largest followings amongst former slaves after the end of the war |
Methodist and Baptist |
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The agricultural system known as ______ was supposed to be a compromise between former slave desires for land and former slave owners' desire for labor |
Sharecropping |