HY 103 EVALUATION EXAMS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Robert Lee - ✔✔Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not
believe the Union should be held together by force
✔✔William T. Sherman - ✔✔general whose march to sea caused destruction to the
south, union general, led march to destroy all supplies and resoures, beginning of total
warfare
✔✔George B. McClellan - ✔✔leader of the union army until shortly after antietam. fired
by Lincoln for being a coward and taking his time
✔✔Antietam - ✔✔the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on
Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with almost
23,000 casualties. After this "win" for the North, Lincoln announced the Emancipation
Proclamation
✔✔Emancipation Proclamation - ✔✔Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves
in areas still at war with the Union.
✔✔Mary Edwards Walker - ✔✔First woman army surgeon and later received the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
✔✔ Sutter's Mill - ✔✔-saw mill owned by john sutter where gold was found
-sparked california gold rush
✔✔Lewis Cass - ✔✔-1848 Democratic candidate known as the Father of Popular
Sovereignty
✔✔Zachary Taylor - ✔✔-many victories in mexican american war
-whig/antislavery
-married a girl from wealthy southern family
-admitted california and new mexico into union
, ✔✔Compromise of 1850 - ✔✔-California admitted as free state
-territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico
-resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries
-federal assumption of Texas debt
-slave trade abolished in DC
-new fugitive slave law
-advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
✔✔Henry Clay - ✔✔-secretary of state
-compromise of 1850
-aided nullification crisis
✔✔John Calhoun - ✔✔-father of nullification
-pro slavery
✔✔Personal Liberty Laws - ✔✔-no person could be removed from PA to be sold as a
slave
-to counteract fugitive slave acts
✔✔Uncle Tom's Cabin - ✔✔-fictional work depicting evils of slavery
-by Harriet Beacher Stowe
-made into a stage production--> marketed towards rich white people
-further reaching than actual slave narratives
-"little book that started the big war"
✔✔Stephen Douglas - ✔✔-senator from Illinois
-"little giant of Illinois"
-breaks up Clay's compromise of 1850 and passes them all through separately
-ran against Lincoln for president
-kills the whig party over northern RR route
-Kansas-Nebraska act
✔✔Kansas-Nebraska Act - ✔✔-gave states popular sovereignty to decide if free or
slave state
✔✔Charles Sumner - ✔✔-Radical Republican against slavery who insults Andrew Butler
and subsequently gets caned on house floor
✔✔Freeport Doctrine - ✔✔-slavery could not exist in a community if the local citizens
did not pass and enforce laws for maintaining it
-requires popular sovereignty
-stephen douglas
✔✔Dred Scott v. Sanford - ✔✔-verdict: slaves cannot sue because they are property
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Robert Lee - ✔✔Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not
believe the Union should be held together by force
✔✔William T. Sherman - ✔✔general whose march to sea caused destruction to the
south, union general, led march to destroy all supplies and resoures, beginning of total
warfare
✔✔George B. McClellan - ✔✔leader of the union army until shortly after antietam. fired
by Lincoln for being a coward and taking his time
✔✔Antietam - ✔✔the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on
Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with almost
23,000 casualties. After this "win" for the North, Lincoln announced the Emancipation
Proclamation
✔✔Emancipation Proclamation - ✔✔Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves
in areas still at war with the Union.
✔✔Mary Edwards Walker - ✔✔First woman army surgeon and later received the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
✔✔ Sutter's Mill - ✔✔-saw mill owned by john sutter where gold was found
-sparked california gold rush
✔✔Lewis Cass - ✔✔-1848 Democratic candidate known as the Father of Popular
Sovereignty
✔✔Zachary Taylor - ✔✔-many victories in mexican american war
-whig/antislavery
-married a girl from wealthy southern family
-admitted california and new mexico into union
, ✔✔Compromise of 1850 - ✔✔-California admitted as free state
-territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico
-resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries
-federal assumption of Texas debt
-slave trade abolished in DC
-new fugitive slave law
-advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
✔✔Henry Clay - ✔✔-secretary of state
-compromise of 1850
-aided nullification crisis
✔✔John Calhoun - ✔✔-father of nullification
-pro slavery
✔✔Personal Liberty Laws - ✔✔-no person could be removed from PA to be sold as a
slave
-to counteract fugitive slave acts
✔✔Uncle Tom's Cabin - ✔✔-fictional work depicting evils of slavery
-by Harriet Beacher Stowe
-made into a stage production--> marketed towards rich white people
-further reaching than actual slave narratives
-"little book that started the big war"
✔✔Stephen Douglas - ✔✔-senator from Illinois
-"little giant of Illinois"
-breaks up Clay's compromise of 1850 and passes them all through separately
-ran against Lincoln for president
-kills the whig party over northern RR route
-Kansas-Nebraska act
✔✔Kansas-Nebraska Act - ✔✔-gave states popular sovereignty to decide if free or
slave state
✔✔Charles Sumner - ✔✔-Radical Republican against slavery who insults Andrew Butler
and subsequently gets caned on house floor
✔✔Freeport Doctrine - ✔✔-slavery could not exist in a community if the local citizens
did not pass and enforce laws for maintaining it
-requires popular sovereignty
-stephen douglas
✔✔Dred Scott v. Sanford - ✔✔-verdict: slaves cannot sue because they are property
