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KMHS Unit 4 USH
EOC Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act | Created territories of Kansas and Nebraska overturning the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing popular sovereignty to determine slavery. |
Compromise of 1850 | a series of laws passed by the Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican American War. |
Popular Sovereignty | Allowing white male settlers in the territory to vote on Slavery. |
Dred Scott Case | Slave who attempted to sue his slave owner for his freedom. Went to the Supreme Court but was ruled against because he had no rights; Made Missouri Compromise Unconstitutional. |
John Brown | A white abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States; led a raid on an arsenal on Harper’s Ferry |
Habeas Corpus | is a writ (court order) that requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court. |
Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865; led the U.S. through the Civil War. |
Emancipation Proclamation | It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion. |
Gettysburg Address | Speech by Lincoln on November 19, 1863 at the dedication of the soldier’s cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. |
Ulysses S. Grant | Union General who ended the Civil War when Robert E. Lee surrendered to him; Became the 18th President of the U.S. |
Robert E Lee | Confederate general |
Stonewall Jackson | Confederate general |
Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America (CSA). |
William T. Sherman | Union general who led the March to the Sea in which Sherman delivered Savannah to Lincoln as a Christmas present. |
Appomattox Courthouse | Sight of the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant. |
Fort Sumter | The location of the first fighting of the Civil War (SC). |
Battle of Bull Run | First Battle of the Civil War won by the Confederates; Stonewall Jackson was the Confederate leader |
Battle of Antietam | Bloodiest 1 day battle in US History; strategic win for Union. |
Siege of Vicksburg | Union victory in Mississippi that cut off Confederate troops, dividing South in half |
Battle of Gettysburg | Turning point in the war; significant loss for Confederate because they would never invade the North again; sank morale of Confederacy and boosting morale of Union. |
Battle of Atlanta | Union victory; Destroyed rail lines and took control of trade post in Atlanta. |
13th Amendment | Abolished slavery |
14th Amendment | Provided citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S. |
15th Amendment | Black male suffrage. |
Freedmen’s Bureau | Federal gov’t agency that aided freed slaves during Reconstruction. |
Presidential Reconstruction | Andrew Johnson issued pardons to Confederate leaders, returned confiscated property and undermined the Freedmen’s Bureau. |
Radical Republican Reconstruction | Wanted to punish the South and protect civil rights of African Americans. |
Morehouse College | Founded in 1867 to educate African American men in theology and education. |
Black Codes | Laws passed by southern states after the Civil War to restrict African Americans’ freedom. |
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) | Created in 1865 by veterans of Confederate Army in Tennessee; Advocated White Supremacy. |
Andrew Johnson | The 17th President of the U.S.; Abe Lincolns VP; impeached by the Radical Republicans because he violated the Tenure Office Act. |
Compromise of 1877 | – Awarded Republican Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential election of 1876 on premise that he remove federal troops from the South |