Chapter 10 LA History

____ days after the Confederate surrender, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

In ______ states, ideas about freeing the slaves were seen as a threat to the economy and society

an act designed to ensure southern slaveholders that they could reclaim slaves who escaped to free states

________ ran unopposed for governor in 1863

______ won the Presidential Election of 1860

When Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to put down the Confederates, ___ more states seceded, starting the Civil War

Which party's motto was "free soil, free labor, free man"?

In the South, the economic system was dependent on ________.

the principle that the rights of individual states should prevail over the rights of the federal government

a large snake that crushes its prey in its coils

It was financially beneficial for commissioners to ______ slaves to masters who claimed them.

_________ wrote the legislation titled the Wilmot Proviso.

brought Missouri into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state

a bitter herb whose root was ground to serve as a replacement for coffee

General Order No. ___ demanded that the city's women cease to "insult or show contempt" to Union officers or soldiers.

officials appointed by one country to look after their citizens and business interest in another

_______ organized one of the volunteer units most closely identified with Louisiana.

The goal of the blockade was to prohibit ______, damaging the southern economy.

furious

Luxury items like coffee, sugar, and tea became rare.

Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat died in _____.

looting

allowed the Union army to confiscate the property of those who continued to support the Confederacy

Abraham Lincoln was reelected president in _____.

_______ of Illinois was the 4th candidate in the presidential race of 1860.

In April, Louisiana joined ___ other states in the newly formed Confederate States of America.

chaos, confusion

Banks began to move Union forces into Southwestern Louisiana in

take possession of

Louisiana Governor ________ began to move the state toward secession after Lincoln's election.

Estimates for the loss in economic terms are as high as _____ million in Louisiana alone.

Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant in ______ Court House, Virginia.

making an unfair profit on essential goods during emergency times

At the time, the Battle of _____ was the bloodiest battle in American history.

fierceness

The Union navy had established a blockade of all southern ports by ______.

Wheat's troops earned the nickname ________

The Battle of _____ ended with one in five men killed, wounded, captured, or missing.

worsen, grow more troublesome

the thinking of northerners & southerners that their own part of the country was fundamentally different from the other

Louisiana's Confederate capital at Shreveport was the last to surrender on June 2, _____.

goal was to squeeze its opponent into submission by controlling the Mississippi River

The events at ______ led to a confederate surrender.

Union troops engaged Confederate forces under the command of ______.

President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in _____.

A cruel master named ______ purchased Tom and abused him, resulting in his death.

proposed legislation that would prohibit slavery in any new territory acquired from the Mexican-American War

The remaining Confederate forces surrendered on July 9 _____.

the ability of the people of an area to decide an issue, such as whether to allow slavery, for themselves

the use of naval forces to isolate a seaport and prevent ships from entering or leaving it

the murder of a prominent person, usually for political reasons

The Civil War's official end took place on April 9, _____.

Lincoln did not even appear on the ballot in ___ of the 15 slave states.

In _____, Louisiana seceded from the United States.

David Farragut turned the city over the Union General ________.

Benjamin Palmer gave a sermon in New Orleans called "The South: Her Peril and Her Duty" in _____.

an act to set up a draft

a multi-part compromise whereb CA joined the Union as a free state and UT and NM territories could decide on slavery

The Conscription Act required all able-bodied men between __ and 35 to enlist.

reward

Confederate forces surrendered on July 4, ____.

Baton Rouge fell to Farragut's fleet in

A Union naval fleet by flag officer David Farragut began to bombard those forts in ____.

Baton Rouge surrendered to Union forces in May _____.

the union, formed in April 1861, of 7 slave states that had seceded from the US beginning shortly after the election

_______ had been placed in charge of Confederate troops in the city.

a proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln that did not end slavery but was designed to create havoc by freeing

The character of Uncle Tom's Cabin was "sold down the river" from ________ to Louisiana.

unruliness

Abraham Lincoln represented the six-year-old ________ Party.

a tactic where an army tries to capture a fort or town by surrounding it and preventing supplies from reaching it

runaway

compulsory enlistment for military service

one who fights in wars primarily for profit or for adventure

Federal troops quickly surrendered in _______ because they did not have the supplies or arms they needed.

In December, ______ was the first state to secede.

Lincoln died from his wounds on April 15, _____.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was a novel published in ______.

excused

tending to inflame or stir up people

Union General Ulysses S. Grant had to march his troops more than _____ miles to achieve his objective.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was _______

After the Union captured Opelousas, the Confederate state government was forced to move to _______.

Fugitive Slave Act: commissioners received __ dollars for a case that returned a slave and __ when claim was rejected