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vocabulary
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| bleeding kansas | period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory |
| john brown | abolitionist of the nineteenth century who sought to free the slaves by military force |
| republican party | one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States |
| dred scott | an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom |
| abe lincoln | the 16th President of the United States |
| lincoln douglass debates | series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858, when both were campaigning for election |
| harpers ferry | A town of extreme northeast West Virginia at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers |
| election of 1860 | the 19th quadrennial presidential election |
| long term causes of civil war | |
| short term causes of war | |
| preserve the union | |
| fort sumter | bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War |
| battle of bull run | fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia near the city of Manassas |
| battle of antietam | decisive engagement in the American Civil War 1861 to 1865 that halted the Confederate advance on Maryland |
| technology in civil | field of drafting, cartography, traffic technology and the analysis of construction materials to support construction for raild roads |
| battle of gettysburg | battle of the American Civil War in 1863 the defeat of Robert E |
| shermans march to the sea | movement of the Union army troops of General William Tecumseh Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia, to the Georgia seacoast with the object of destroying Confederate supplies |
| appomatox courthouse | village in Virginia where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War |
| anaconda plan | the initial Civil War strategy devised by General Winfield Scott of the U.S. Army to put down the rebellion by the Confederacy in 1861 |
| union advantages/ disadvantages | strict federal labor laws governing the rights of employers in relation to unions |
| election of 1864 | Lincoln ran under the National Union banner against his former top Civil War general, the Democratic candidate, George B. McClellan |
| gettysburg address | speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War |
| emancipation proclamation | an executive order issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control |
| second national bank | was the second federally authorized Hamiltonian National Bank in the United States during its 20-year charter from February 1816 to January 1836 |
| election of 1832 | was the first time that the respected parties would hold nominating conventions |
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