Unit 5 APUSH&DE Vocabulary Quiz

The battle victory Lincoln needed in order to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

• battle at andersonville
• battle of antietam
• battle at fort sumter
• battle at vicksburg

This freed the slaves.

• 14th
• 15th
• 12th
• 13th

An executive order issued by Lincoln that freed the slaves in the rebellious states.

• Gettysburg Address
• Executive Order #101
• Lincoln's demand to free the slaves
• emancipation proclamation

Signed into law under President Pierce & it violated the Missouri Compromise because it allowed citizens to decide as to whether they will be a slave or free state above the latitude line set by the Missouri Compromise.

• Missouri Act
• Kansas Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Wilmot Provisio

The Scorched Earth policy of the Union Army through Georgia at the end of the Civil War.

• Sherman's March to the Sea
• Grant's March to the Sea
• Burn through Georgia
• Lincoln's March to the Gulf

Democratic politician from Illinois that ran and lost against Lincoln.

• Abraham Lincoln
• Stephen Douglas
• Millard Fillmore
• Preston Brooks

a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico

• Oregon Treaty
• Gadsden Purchase
• Treaty of Paris
• Nebraska Treaty

It granted 160 acres of land to any man or woman that claimed & cultivated the land out west.

• Acres for Free Act
• Farming Act
• Farm the Land Act
• Homestead Act

This was composed of 5 bills designed to defuse a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1800
• Compromise of 1850
• Congressional Compromise

Commander of the Confederate Army

• Robert E Lee
• Stonewall Jackson
• Charles Sumner
• George Pickett