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| What congressional solution made California a free state and gave popular sovereignty to the New Mexico and Utah territories? |
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| What part of the soultion in the Compromise of 1850 upset manynorthners (there were five parts of thi soultion)? |
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| What act supported by Stephen Douglas gave popular sovereigenty to two territories just west of Missouri? |
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| What political party was formed in the 1850's that supported the anti-slavery platform (also, it is known as the party of Lincoln)? |
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| What famous court case upheld the right of slaves owners as property holders and disallowed slaves to file cout cases? |
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| Scoot v. Sanford (Dred Scott decision) |
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| Who led the masscure at Pottawatomie Creek, NE and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry? |
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| Who won the presidential election in 1869? |
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| What state was the first to secede from the Union in 1860? |
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| What county in Alabama never secede from the Union? |
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| What state was actuall spilt over the decision to secede and eventually became two states? |
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| What was the most famous of the Black military units to fight in the Civil War? |
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| What act passed by the Republican dominated congress (during the Civil War) gave large land grants to states from the federal government? |
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| What did Lincoln pass on January 1,1863 granting freedom to slaves in the Confederate states in rebellion? |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| What did Lincoln suspend during the Civil War, depriving many citizens of their civil right? |
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| What was the first major battle of the Civil War? |
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| What battle resulted in the single bloodiest day of the Civil War? |
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| What major three-day battle did the Conferdatesd (under Lee() lose in Pennsylvania? |
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| What battle in Mississippi resulted in a complete blockade of the south by the Union? |
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| What Union general captured Atlanta and continued southeast to Savannah destroying everything in his path? |
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| What famous speech was given by Lincoln at a consecration ceremonry where he reminded Americans of the basic ideal, "All men are created equal?" |
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| Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Grant in 1865? |
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| What was the program called that return southern states to the Union, rebulit the South's infrastructure, and attempted to protect the rights of free blacks? |
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| What where the laws called passed by southern states attempting to control freedmen and keeping them in a subservient position? |
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| What were northners caleed who voted Republican, and were scorned by southerns after the Civil War? |
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| What were southerns called who voted Republican after the Civil War? |
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| What southern secert society emerged during the Reconstruction and whose legacy(as president) is remembered as being very corrupt? |
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| What congressional solution resulted in Hayes winning the presidential election in 1876 and Reconstruction ending? |
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| What were the laws called passed in southern states after Reconstruction that stripped African Americans of basic right like voting? |
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| What type of farming existed in the south after the war where farmers rented land to grow crops? |
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| What type of farming existed in the south after the war where farmers were forced to share crops with landowners? |
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