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secession&civil war
U.S history
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| popular sovereignty | letting the people vote |
| Free Soil Party | wants new territory free from slaves, slavery is immoral, if you are poor you cant afford slaves. |
| Secession | to separate or withdraw, the event that marks the beginning of the civil war |
| compromise of 1820 | solves the issue of slavery, Missouri wants to enter the union as a slave state, as one state wants to be slave state then another state has to enter as a free state, everything north latitude 36 is a free states and south of the line are slaves states |
| compromise of 1850 | cali enters as a free state but no slave state enter. south became pissed, fugitive slave law was passed: any free slave in the north has to return to the south to its master. then North became pissed |
| Kansas- Nebraska act | Stephan Douglas, wanted to become president, wanted to impress the south letting the people vote on whether the people want to allow slavery or not |
| Uncle Tom's cabin | book written by , book on anti-slavery, cause of civil war, fiction, made north sad and south took book as threat |
| John Brown | invades Harper Ferry (where gov. keeps weapons), radical abolitionist, wanted to start a slave rebellion, murdered any slave masters, viewed as a hero in the north and animal in the south. |
| Dred Scott decision | 1857, takes slave from slave to free state, slave thinks he is free but master says no, case goes to trial (case: is a slave free in a free territory?) |
| Crittenden Compromise | proposal for the government to protect slavery. lincoln rejected it. |
| Confederate States of America | South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Luisiana, Tennessee, Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas (seven states seceded when lincoln was elected. |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the confederate states |
| Border States | Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, West Virgina (states with slaves bc of lincoln) |
| Robert E. Lee | top commander of the confederate army, from Virginia, rejects lincolns offer to be commander of the union. |
| U.S Grant | commander of the Union Army, not first choice |
| "Stonewall" Jackson | confederate army |
| William T. Sherman | total war, burns down rebel towns, destroys everything in his path while in south, his objective was to bring the U.S back together. |
| Ironclads | steam propelled warships protected by iron or steel armor plates |
| Conscription Laws | military draft, in the beginning of the war it was voluntarily and eventually it became mandatory. all males from 20-45 |
| Clara Barton | war nurse, risked her life to save soldiers, called the angel of the battlefield, helped distribute supplies to the Army |
| Emancipation Proclamation | document said every slave would be free. didnt apply to border states only states that seceded, didnt stop slavery |
| Gettsburg Address | famous speech by lincoln to honor the dead soldiers. |
| Copperheads | nicknames given to the democrats who were against the war |
| Trent Affair | incident in 1861, we took two confederate soldiers and then gave it back so war wouldn't start, threatened a war with England |
| John W. Booth | assassinated lincon |
| Anaconda Plan | unions plan, military plan to defeat confederacy. 1. Naval blockade,2 take over Mississippi river, 3. take over Richmond, Virginia (capital of the confederacy. |
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