HIUS 221 Final Exam Jones Questions and
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David Wilmot ANS✔✔ a congressman in 1845 and Senate member in 1861
who intended to ban slavery in the west... wrote a "proviso"
Wilmot's Proviso ANS✔✔ a Bill written up by David Wilmot... it passed the
House vote but failed to pass the Senate.. it would have banned slavery in
the west...
Ironies of the Civil War ANS✔✔ in the end, it was a fight to end slavery, but
it resulted in "free people" who could not actually act as though they were
truly free (racism, etc...)
William Sherman ANS✔✔ A union general in the Civil War who received
recognition for his outstanding military strategy.. served under Grant and
then became commanding general of the army in 1869 when Grant became
president... he wrote many memoirs about his service in the military......
Military historians Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones cited the significant
damage wrought to railroads and Southern logistics in Sherman's "March to
the Sea" and stated that "Sherman's raid succeeded in 'knocking the
Confederate war effort to pieces'."[23] David J. Eicher wrote that "Sherman
had accomplished an amazing task. He had defied military principles by
operating deep within enemy territory and without lines of supply or
communication. He destroyed much of the South's potential and psychology
to wage war
Oberlin College ANS✔✔ located in Ohio in the 1830s, first school that
admitted women under coed circumstances. also the first school to admit
African Americans...
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John Wilkes Booth ANS✔✔ an actor who assassinated Lincoln on April 14,
1865! confederate sympathizer who strongly opposed the abolition of
slavery... after shooting Lincoln, he fled on horseback to southern Maryland,
and then on to rural VA.. 12 days later he was tracked down; refused to give
himself up, and was shot by a Union soldier.
Brooks-Sumner Affair ANS✔✔ Sumner was a northern abolitionist senator...
brooks was a congressman from south Carolina.. Sumner went off on a
multi-day tirade in from of congress about the crimes against Kansas. he
speaks extremely rudely about southerners, and says terrible things about
Andrew Butler. his nephew (brooks) beats up Sumner with a cane!
John Brown ANS✔✔ Radical Abolitionist from Kansas who rallied with his
northern friends and raided the Pottawatomie town and killed 5 min (hacked
them up with axes)... debated whether he was a hero or insane! ... involved
in the Harpers Ferry incident of 1859
Uncle Tom's Cabin ANS✔✔ written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852.. about
the hardships of being a slave and being sold over and over again.. sold half
a million copies in the North and another half million in England.. book
becomes outlawed in the Southern states!! a major leading point towards
the war!
Susan B. Anthony ANS✔✔ (1820-1906) she was a pioneer for the Women's
rights movements in the US president of the National American Women's
suffrage Association (1892-1900).. her work led to the 19th amendment.
After 1854 she supported the republican party and the antislavery
movement.. after the civil war, Anthony collaborated with Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and published the Revolution (a liberal paper promoting women's
rights)... she was arrested on several occasions
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Anaconda Plan ANS✔✔ developed by Winfield Scott.. union will use their
superior arm and navy to 'strangle' the enemy to block out resources and
supplies from coming in and out.. the confederacy eventually became
strangled and died out.. the plan destroyed the southern economy
John Calhoun ANS✔✔ proponent of slavery.. against the Compromise of
1820.. VP for John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.. died 7 years before
the Civil War, but was an inspiration for secessionists.. pro-states rights, and
pro nullification
Charles Finney ANS✔✔ minister during the Second Great Awakening in NY..
called the father of modern revivalism.. abolitionist.. taught at Oberlin
College in Ohio
Harriet Tubman ANS✔✔ Maryland slave who was solely responsible for
leading 70 slaves out of Maryland into freedom.. also led hundreds more to
freedom during the Civil War.. underground railroad.. suffered her while life
due to an injury to her head from her youth and died at 91...
James Polk ANS✔✔ President from 1845-1849.. democrat... defeated henry
clay by promising to annex Texas... leader of the Jacksonian democracy..
was the last strong pre-civil war president... had foreign policy success..
oversaw the opening of the US Naval Academy and the Smithsonian
Institution.. issued the first postage stamps in the US
Abraham Lincoln ANS✔✔ was the 16th President of the United States,
serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He led the
United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and an event often
considered its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so,
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