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Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?
Why did presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren reject adding Texas to the United States?
Fifty-four forty or fight referred to demands for American control of what territory?
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to __________.
The Free Soil Party __________.
Stephen Douglass economic motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to __________.
In 1854, the Know-Nothings won all the congressional races as well as the governorship in __________.
How did the caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks effect the Republican Party?
The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court __________.
During his debate with Abraham Lincoln in Freeport, Illinois, Stephen Douglas __________.

Which of the following puts these events in the proper chronological order, from first to last?
I. Virginia seceded from the Union.
II. Abraham Lincoln was first elected president.
III. Confederate States of America formed.
IV. South Carolina seceded from the Union.

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In 1860, which state became the first to pass an ordinance of secession and declare itself separated from the Union?
During the secession winter of 18601861, who offered the most widely supported compromise plan in Congress, which allowed the
westward extension of the Missouri Compromise line?
Among the Confederacys advantages during the Civil War was __________.
Approximately how many Union and Confederate soldiers died during the Civil War?
What was the major objective of the Anaconda Plan?

Which of the following puts these Civil War battles in the proper chronological order, from first to last?
I. Antietam
II. First Bull Run
III. Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor
IV. Gettysburg

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Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he __________.
What event led to Lincolns issuance of an emancipation proclamation?
Unfortunately, the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 made an exclusive provision that _________.
The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer regiment is best known as __________.
Beginning in 1863, what did Frederick Douglass urge northern blacks to do?
Lincoln spoke of a new birth of freedom for the nation in his __________.
Copperheads were __________.
In July 1863, the Union won two key victories that are often identified as turning points in the war. These victories occurred at
__________.
The Thirteenth Amendment __________.
Frederick Douglass viewed the abolition of slavery as __________.
How did the Civil War affect plantation/planters?
The Freedmens Bureau is best know for _________.
The southern Black Codes __________.
Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce were the first two black __________.
The Fifteenth Amendment __________.
What action by Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives?
The Fourteenth Amendment marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights because it__________.
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was drafted to __________.
The Enforcement Acts, passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871, were designed to __________.