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USVA SOL
SOL 7a-7c: The Civil War
Term | Definition |
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Tariffs; expansion of slavery; states rights | List three sectional disagreements leading to the Civil War (T., E. of S., S.R.) |
Abolitionists | People who fought to end slavery |
Dred Scott Case | Supreme Court decision; Former slave sues for freedom and loses; slavery could not be banned anywhere |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery book about the conditions of slavery in South; this book helped instigate the Civil War. |
Failed | The compromises of the 1850s ________________ to prevent the Civil War. |
Election of 1860 | Lincoln is inaugurated; South Carolina then secedes, followed by several southern states who feared he would abolish slavery. |
Fort Sumter | Opening confrontation of the Civil War. |
Antietam | Emancipation Proclamation was issued after this battle, making abolitionism a clear war aim. |
Gettysburg | Turning point of Civil War |
Appomattox Court House | Site of Lee's surrender to Grant, ending the Civil War. |
Abraham Lincoln | President during the Civil War; insisted on using force if necessary to hold the union together. |
Jefferson Davis | U.S. senator who became president of the Confederate States of America. |
Ulysses S. Grant | Most successful Union military commander; forced Lee's surrender at Appomattox |
Robert E. Lee | Confederate general of the Army of Northern Virginia; urged South to accept defeat after Appomattox |
Frederick Douglass | Former slave; encouraged Lincoln to enlist African American soldiers. |
Emancipation Proclamation | This freed the slaves in rebelling states, making abolition a clear war aim; also discouraged interference of foreign governments, and encouraged African Americans to join Union army |
Gettysburg Address | Lincoln describes the Civil War as a struggle to preserve a nation that was dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal"; says that the U.S. is one nation, not a collection of sovereign states. |
African Americans | The Emancipation Proclamation encouraged _____________ to join the Union Army |
Secession | Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation. |