APUSH Unit 5: The Civil War

This Act nullified Missouri Compromise and used popular sovereignty.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• New Mexico-Utah Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

Series of violent clashes between anti- & pro-slavery forces in the west

• Bleeding Kansas
• John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
• Nat Turner's Rebellion
• Bleeding Nebraska

Northern anti-slavery political party who sought to prohibit the expansion of slavery into the west

• Mountain people

• Free soilers

• Lords of the Loom

• Know-Nothings

What political party was formed by Whigs, Free-Soil Democrats, & was supported by workers & blacks?

• Republican Party

• Whig Party

• Democratic Party

• American Party

Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Gov't cannot regulate slavery in new territories

• Swift v. Tyson

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Ableman v. Booth

• Plessy v. Ferguson

What impact did the Emancipation Proclamation have on the Civil War?

• African Americans joined the Union army

• maintained the Northern economy

• forced Confederate surrender immediately

• had no effect

Union victory by Gen. Grant; cut off the West from the Confederacy by gaining control of the Mississippi River.

• Vicksburg

• Williamsburg

• Baton Rouge

• Antietam

Turning point of the war; Largest casualties; followed by an iconic speech by Lincoln

• Antietam
• Gettysburg
• San Jacinto
• Harrisburg

Gen. Lee officially surrenders to Gen. Grant here

• Appomattox
• Spotsylvania
• Atlanta
• Dove Creek

The place where Confederate cannons opened fire thus starting the Civil War

• Sherman's March to Sea
• Gettysburg
• Atlanta Campaign
• Fort Sumter