American Yawp Exam Study Guide 2024| Questions with Correct Answers
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American Yawp
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American Yawp
Bleeding Sumner - Charles Sumner was attacked because of a speech that he made
against proslavery forces in Kansas
Compromise of 1850 - (1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and
popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries,
(4...
American Yawp Exam Study Guide 2024|
Questions with Correct Answers
Bleeding Sumner - ✅Charles Sumner was attacked because of a speech that he made
against proslavery forces in Kansas
Compromise of 1850 - ✅(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and
popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries,
(4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave
law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
Fugitive Slave Act - ✅(1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for
the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to
slaveholders
John Brown - ✅Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at
Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
Kansas-Nebraska Act - ✅1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people
in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
Personal Liberty Laws - ✅pre-Civil War laws passed by Northern state governments to
counteract the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Acts and to protect escaped slaves and free
blacks settled in the North, by giving them the right to a jury trial.
Popular Sovereignty - ✅A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Scott v. Sanford - ✅The 1857 Supreme Court decision ruling that a slave who had escaped to a
free state enjoyed no rights as a citizen and that Congress had no authority to ban slavery in
the territories.
, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) - ✅Harriet Beecher Stowe's widely read novel that dramatized
the horrors of slavery. It heightened Northern support for abolition and escalated the
sectional conflict.
Wilmot Proviso (1846) - ✅The Wilmot Proviso was a rider to a bill proposed by Pennsylvania
Congressman David Wilmot in 1846 that sought to ban slavery in any territories or new
states acquired from Mexico. Essentially the argument was over whether there would be
slavery in Texas, New Mexico, California, and other new western states. The debate is
considered a crucial part of the lead-up to the Civil War.
imagined community - ✅the invented sense of connection and shared traditions that
underlies identification with a particular ethnic group or nation whose members likely
will never all meet
Appomattox Court House - ✅Famous as the site of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse,
where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee To Ulysses S. Grant
took place on April 9, 1865
Battle of Chancellorsville (1863) - ✅Lee daringly divided his numerically inferior force and
sent Stonewall to defend the flank. His strategy worked, and was his most brilliant victory, yet
dearly bought. Stonewall was accidentally killed by his own men at dusk.
Battle of Gettysburg (1863) - ✅Civil War battle in Pennsylvania, Lee was trying to invade the
North and force Lincoln to consider ending the war, thereby letting the Confederacy remain
a separate country, Lee order Pickett's Charge-a failure-Lee retreated, Union won this battle,
many lives were lost on both sides, turning point of the war, last major attempt to invade the
North
Emancipation Proclamation - ✅Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it
declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
Fort Sumter - ✅Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the
confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War
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