Answer the following about the Confederate brigadier general States Rights Gist, for 10 points each.
[10m] Gist was so named as a tribute to John C. Calhoun in the early days of this 1830s “Crisis,” in which state officials attempted to render federal tariffs void within South Carolina.
ANSWER: nullification crisis
[10e] As South Carolina’s state inspector general, Gist helped secure arms in the run-up to an 1861 attack on this Charleston fort, which began the Civil War.
ANSWER: Fort Sumter
[10h] After the Chattanooga campaign, Gist was assigned to keep an eye on this major general after he spent much of the campaign drunk. Alongside Joseph Lane, this man was nominated for one position by “bolters” led by William Yancey.
ANSWER: John C. Breckinridge [or John Cabell Breckinridge]
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