US HISTORY FLASHCARDS { GRADED
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Confiscation act - ✔✔The North can take Slaves away from the South
John B. Floyd - ✔✔Secretary of War
Franklin Pierce - ✔✔14th President
Millard Filmore - ✔✔1850-1853
*Thirteenth President
*Became president after Zachary Taylor died
*As a congressman, he revealed his opposition to both the expansion of
slavery and various abolitionist activities, driving away supporters
*Supported the Compromise of 1850
*Failed to obtain a nomination in 1852, but was nominated by both the
Whigs and the Know-Nothing movement in 1856
Constitutional Union Party - ✔✔
John C. Breckinridge - ✔✔pro-slavery candidate nominated by southern
Democrats for the 1860 presidential election
,Louisa May Alcott - ✔✔American writer and reformer best known for her
largely autobiographical novel:
Little Women (1868-1869).
George Meade - ✔✔He was the one who fought Lee and won at the battle
of Gettsyburg
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - ✔✔
Charles Sumner - ✔✔Guy who got beaten into a coma with a cane on the
senate floor
Transcontinental Railroad - ✔✔
Wilmot Proviso - ✔✔
Fort Wagner - ✔✔
chancellorsville - ✔✔
arlington cemetery - ✔✔
Mexican cession - ✔✔
54 40 or fight - ✔✔
Andersonville - ✔✔Prison camp in Georgia where Union soldiers were
severely mistreated, misfed, etc.
Betrayal of Ebeneezer Creek - ✔✔
, Petersburg - ✔✔City south of Virginia where Grant laid siege on Lee and
pushed him back further.
Preston Brook - ✔✔the guy who beat Charles Sumner with a cane and put
him in a coma
Quarter stone speech - ✔✔Gettysburg address?
Peninsula Campaign - ✔✔Union General George B. McClellan's failed
effort to seize Richmond, the Confederate Capital. .
Joseph Hooker - ✔✔United States general in the Union Army who was
defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee
Steam Power - ✔✔Steam Powered Engines?
Dred Scott - ✔✔United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a
non-slave state. He lost against the supreme court.
Savannah - ✔✔the destination of Roger Sherman's March to the Sea
Grant - ✔✔the Union General in Chief during war. Made Lee surrender at
Appamatox Court HOuse
George B. McClellan - ✔✔Union General who got fired for not doing
anything, Later ran against Lincoln in the election of 1864.
Border States - ✔✔Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware
The 13th Amendment - ✔✔Abolished slavery in the United States
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Confiscation act - ✔✔The North can take Slaves away from the South
John B. Floyd - ✔✔Secretary of War
Franklin Pierce - ✔✔14th President
Millard Filmore - ✔✔1850-1853
*Thirteenth President
*Became president after Zachary Taylor died
*As a congressman, he revealed his opposition to both the expansion of
slavery and various abolitionist activities, driving away supporters
*Supported the Compromise of 1850
*Failed to obtain a nomination in 1852, but was nominated by both the
Whigs and the Know-Nothing movement in 1856
Constitutional Union Party - ✔✔
John C. Breckinridge - ✔✔pro-slavery candidate nominated by southern
Democrats for the 1860 presidential election
,Louisa May Alcott - ✔✔American writer and reformer best known for her
largely autobiographical novel:
Little Women (1868-1869).
George Meade - ✔✔He was the one who fought Lee and won at the battle
of Gettsyburg
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - ✔✔
Charles Sumner - ✔✔Guy who got beaten into a coma with a cane on the
senate floor
Transcontinental Railroad - ✔✔
Wilmot Proviso - ✔✔
Fort Wagner - ✔✔
chancellorsville - ✔✔
arlington cemetery - ✔✔
Mexican cession - ✔✔
54 40 or fight - ✔✔
Andersonville - ✔✔Prison camp in Georgia where Union soldiers were
severely mistreated, misfed, etc.
Betrayal of Ebeneezer Creek - ✔✔
, Petersburg - ✔✔City south of Virginia where Grant laid siege on Lee and
pushed him back further.
Preston Brook - ✔✔the guy who beat Charles Sumner with a cane and put
him in a coma
Quarter stone speech - ✔✔Gettysburg address?
Peninsula Campaign - ✔✔Union General George B. McClellan's failed
effort to seize Richmond, the Confederate Capital. .
Joseph Hooker - ✔✔United States general in the Union Army who was
defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee
Steam Power - ✔✔Steam Powered Engines?
Dred Scott - ✔✔United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a
non-slave state. He lost against the supreme court.
Savannah - ✔✔the destination of Roger Sherman's March to the Sea
Grant - ✔✔the Union General in Chief during war. Made Lee surrender at
Appamatox Court HOuse
George B. McClellan - ✔✔Union General who got fired for not doing
anything, Later ran against Lincoln in the election of 1864.
Border States - ✔✔Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware
The 13th Amendment - ✔✔Abolished slavery in the United States
