click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Unit 9
APUSH
Question | Answer |
---|---|
the event that started the Civil War | Confederate attack on Fort Sumter (SC) |
Confederacy | the South in the Civil War |
confederation | a loose association of states who share a weak central government |
Union | the North in the Civil War |
years of the Civil War | 1861-1865 |
King Cotton Diplomacy | southern war strategy that said Great Britain's dependence on southern cotton would force it (GB) to recognize the Confederacy and help it fight the North |
Anaconda Plan | Union strategy of blockading southern ports to prevent supplies from reaching South |
attrition | Union strategy of using its superior numbers to wear the South down over time |
Vicksburg | Union victory that gave it control of the Mississippi River and thus divided the Confederacy in half |
Gettysburg | Union victory in Pennsylvania that crippled the South's offensive capabilities |
"March to the Sea" | Union General William Sherman's campaign that sought to break southern morale; destroyed everything in its path from Chattanooga to Savannah (including Atlanta |
Trent Affair | diplomatic crisis in which Confederate diplomats traveling on British steamer the Trent were seized by Union Navy, removed from Trent, and taken as POWs; British threatened war on Union; Lincoln released diplomats |
contraband | property seized from the enemy; slaves considered this |
Confiscation Act 1861 | allowed slaves to be seized by Northern army as contraband |
Emancipation Proclamation (1862-63) | Lincoln’s declaration of 1862 that freed all slaves in those states that were in rebellion (but not those in the border states) |
Massachusetts 54th Regiment | most famous black regiment of Civil War |
13th Amendment | emancipated every slave in the United States |
writ of habeas corpus | literally means "you shall have the body"; a judicial principle that states an accused person should be brought before a judge and informed of the charges against him or her |
Conscription Act, 1863 (North) | declared all men 20-45 eligible for draft; could avoid if you found sub. or you paid $300 fee |
New York City Draft Riot 1863 | carried out by poor, mostly Irish-Americans; attacked blacks and rich whites in response to Conscription Act of 1863; 117 killed |
Homestead Act | gave recipients 160 acres of free land in Great Plains as long as you farmed it for 5 years |
Morrill Land Grant Act | allowed states to sell federal land to establish agricultural and technical colleges |
Appomattox | place in Virginia where Robert E. Lee (South) officially surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (North) |
Ulysses S. Grant | Union general whose strategy of attrition won the war |
Robert E. Lee | Confederate general whose tactical abilities won numerous battles for South early in the war |
John Wilkes Booth | assassin of Abraham Lincoln |
West Virginia | became a state in 1863 because it consisted of counties in a southern state that were opposed to slavery |