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APUSH Unit 6
APUSH Unit 6 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Confederate States of America (February 1861) | formed by seven states seceded from USA; fought for independence and lost |
| Jefferson Davis | first and only president of confederacy; led the first battle of bull run |
| Crittenden compromise attempt | series of compromises from 1860-61 intended to stall civil war; rejected by Lincoln |
| Fort Sumter (April 1861) | federal fort commanded by robert anderson was taken by south, marking the beginning of the civil war |
| Border states | slave states that did not secede; emancipation proc did not free the slaves in these states; politically important to Lincoln |
| Writ of Habeas Corpus | legal right that a person is free in society and cant be taken without a cause; suspended by Lincoln |
| Conscription Law (1863) | first national draft law in USA; causes rioting in Newyork |
| Draft riots | riots in NY against drafting led by the north who didnt strongly oppose slavery |
| “Greenbacks” | US notes issued during civil war as legal tender for all debts except tariff duties |
| Bull Run (July 1861) | southern victory against north; led by Jefferson Davis; made south confident that they would win |
| Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson | commander of southern forces who won at ft sumter |
| Gen. George McClellan | won north victory at antietam; ran for president against lincoln but lsot |
| Gen. Robert E. Lee | asked to lead northern troops, but became commander of southern troops b/c his home state, VA, seceded union; was able to beat all union troops except for grant's |
| Second Battle of Bull Run (August 1862) | southern victory over north; most defensive battle in northern VA campaign for confederacy |
| Antietam (September 1862) | battle was a draw, but south retreated, making it look like a north victory; allowed lincoln to issue the emancipation proclamation |
| Emancipation Proclamation (September 1862) | issued by lincoln, granting freedom to all slaves in the confederacy, but not border states |
| Gettysburg (July 1863) | Gen. Lee against Gen. Meade; no conclusive victory; more men died than in any other battle |
| Gettysburg Address (November 1863) | delivered by lincoln in dedication of the cemetary built there honoring the men killed |
| Gen. Ulysses S. Grant | finally won war for the union against Gen. R.E.Lee; elected for president three yrs later |
| Vicksburg (July 1863) | victory by grant who set up siege |
| Gen. William Tecmseh Sherman | fought alongside grant and helped lead march to the sea |
| “March to the Sea” | grant and sherman's march across the confederacy where they destroyed everything |
| Election of 1864 | lincoln barely beat peace democrat McClellan who wanted to negotiate peace with confederacy |
| “Peace Democrats” | democrats that hoped union could be salvaged without military interference |
| “Copperheads” | derogatory name for peace democrats given by republicans, but embraced by the democrats |
| Union Party | formed by know-nothing and whig parties with presidential candidate john bell who lost to lincoln; only one pres candidate ever ran |
| Andrew Johnson | had reconstructionist policies similar to lincoln's after becoming president after lincoln's death; first pres ever impeached |
| Wilderness campaign (May-June 1864) | group of battles in VA that resulted in draw; killed a high percentage of lee's army and reduced its size |
| Appomattox (April 1865) | Lee surrendered to grant ending the civil war |
| Lincoln assassination (April 1865) | confederate john wilkes booth assasinated Licoln in ford's theater |
| Freedman’s Bureau (1865–1872) | created by congress to assist for one year in the transition from slaver to freedom in the south |
| Lincoln’s 10 Percent Reconstruction Plan (1863) | southern state could be re-admitted after ten percent of voters swore allegience to the union; lincoln wanted them to be quickly readmitted |
| Wade-Davis Bill (50 percent, 1864) | passed by radical republicans to counter lincoln's plan; stated that 50% of voters must pledge to USA; vetoed by lincoln |
| Radical Republicans | believed lincoln wasnt harsh enough and hoped to control the reconstruction process |
| Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan (May 1865) | offered pardons to all white men except confederate leaders |
| Thirteenth Amendment | officially abolished slaver except as a punishment for crime |
| Black Codes | put in place after civil war to limit liberties of freed black men and women |
| Civil Rights Bill (1866) | federal law intended to protect rights of african americans |
| Fourteenth Amendment | guaranteed citizenship to all males born in USA, regardless of race; didnt ensure right to vote |
| Military Reconstruction Act (1867) | created five military districts; required each state to write a new state constituation and ratify the 14th ammendment |
| Fifteenth Amendment | gave all male citizens of USA the right to vote |
| Redeemer Governments | part of democratic party that sought to oust the Republican freedmen, carpetbaggers, and scalawags |
| “Scalawags” | derogatory term for southern whites who supported reconstruction following civil war |
| “Carpetbaggers” | name given by southerners to northerners who moved to the south during reconstruction era |
| Ku Klux Klan | advocated white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration thru extremism and terrorism |
| Tenure of Office Act (1867) | passed to limit johnson's power; forbidded the president to remove congressmen withough congress consent |
| Johnson’s Impeachment | impeached for violation tenure of office act; first ever impeachment |
| “Compromise of 1877” | republican hayes elected over democratic tilden if hayes promised to remove federal troops from republican state governments |
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