Unit 1 Review: Civil War & Reconstruction

This compromise prevented an immediate war, but it was not permanently effective:

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Treaty of Paris

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Why was the population in the California territory increasing so dramatically?

• Because of the Gold Rush

• Because of a new railroad system

• Because of a gold shortage in other states

• Because of a new university opening

Results of the Lincoln-Douglas debates:

• Lincoln gained national recognition; Douglas won the Senate seat

• Douglas gained national recognition; Lincoln won the Senate seat

• Lincoln won the presidency immediately after the debates

• The debates ended in a tie with no clear winner

Dred Scott decision:

• Ruled that African Americans were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in the territories

• Declared the Missouri Compromise constitutional

• Granted citizenship to all people born in the United States

• Abolished slavery in all U.S. territories

Harper’s Ferry:

• Site of John Brown's raid in 1859

• Location of the signing of the Declaration of Independence

• Capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War

• Birthplace of Abraham Lincoln

• First state to secede from the Union

Uncle Tom’s Cabin:

• Anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

• A science fiction novel by Jules Verne

• A detective story by Arthur Conan Doyle

• A romantic novel by Jane Austen

This bill was defeated in the Senate; it claimed all territory bought from Mexico should be closed to slavery:

• Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

The Compromise of 1850:

• A series of laws passed to resolve the issue of slavery in territories acquired from Mexico and to ease tensions between North and South.

• A treaty that ended the War of 1812 and established the US-Canada border.

• A set of amendments that abolished slavery throughout the United States.

• A law that granted women the right to vote in federal elections.

This declaration freed all slaves in the Confederacy:

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Bill of Rights

• Gettysburg Address

• Missouri Compromise

Lincoln promised “the dead shall not have died in vain” in this speech: __________

• Gettysburg Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Second Inaugural Address

• House Divided Speech