US History - Civil War

Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Missouri and THIS STATE were the 5 Border States

Tennessee battle where Ulysses Grant first makes his name in Union victory

Under popular sovereignty, the issue of slavery in the west was to be decided by the

The Radical Republicans in Congress after the Civil War

Legal theory that a state has the right to invalidate any federal law

This event marked the beginning of the Civil War:

Gettysburg, the turning point in the war, was fought in this state

Prevented blacks registered to vote from voting at party elections

Lee splits his outnumbered troops in half to surprise Union here; Stonewall Jackson dies

Congressional Reconstruction ended after the election of 1876 because

Confederate victory at 1st Battle of War shows this Civil War will not be short

Major confederate win as Gen. Burnside makes tactical errors that causes 13 K Union casualties

Loyalty to the interests of one's own region rather than to the country as a whole

Union victory at this battle led to the Emancipation Proclamation

The Fourteenth Amendment gave

In 1858 Lincoln & Douglas engaged in a series of debates seeking a seat in this State’s Senate

The law that prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36 30’ was the

The first state to leave the Union

What was Lincoln's goal at the outset of the Civil War?

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that

A clerk decided whether a citizen was literate or not after they read the state constitution.

Compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most often military service

Taking major trade port helped Union to start to close the Mississippi River to the South

California entered the Union as a free state as a result of the

3-Day defeat of Confederacy at this battle was the last foray into the North by Robert E. Lee