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Missouri Compromise Missouri would join as a slave state. Maine would join as a non slave state.
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Compromise of 1850 North- California joins the Union as a free state. Slave trade in Washington DC would be abolished.South- New Mexico and Utah territories open to slavery. Strong fugative slave law.
Kansas-Nebraska Act Nebraska free territory and Kansas slave territory.
Violence in the Senate 1856 Preston brooks hit Charles Sumptner with a cane. The southerners were satisfied.
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott sued to end his slavery, arguing that that living in free territory made him a free man. But the Supreme Court said he wasn't a US citizen.
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry John Brown was a fervent abolitionist who opposed slavery and developed a plan to raid Harper's Ferry and give guns to slaves and start a rebellion.
Election of 1860 Lincoln did not feel that slavery could continue in this country and that followed with 7 southern state succeeding and 4 others following.
Secession Withdrawal from the Union.
Jefferson Davis Former Mississippi senator for president.
Ft. Sumter The start of the war. April 12th 1861.
Causes of the Civil War Disagreement over the legality, morality, and politics of Slavery, Kansas-Nebraska Act sparked violence in Kansas, Southern States seceded from the Union, Confederates attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
13th Amendment Banning Slavery in the United States.
14th Amendment Granting citizenship to all persons born of naturalized in the US and no state can deprive life, liberty, or property without due process.
15th Amendment The right to vote "shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
Battle of Antietam Bloodiest day of Civil War; South lost chance for international support; Lincoln issued Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle of Gettysburg Turned the tide of war in favor of the Union; South went on defensive.
Battle of Vicksburg
John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Lincoln.
Ulysses S. Grant Began a campaign to seize control of two rivers.
Robert E. Lee One of the best senior officers in the US Army.
1st Battle of Bull Run Showed that both sides needed training and it was going to be a long bloddy war.
Abolition The immediate ending of slavery.
Emancipation Proclamation A decree freeing all enslaved persons in states that were still in rebellion after January 1st, 1863.
Harriet Tubman Helped many slaves escape with the Underground Railroad.
Abraham Lincoln President of the United States.
Civil Rights Act of 1866 Gave citizenship to all people born in the US, except Native Americans.
Ku Klux Klan A group of men without fear used violence to scare black men and radical republicans.
Sherman's March to the Sea Sherman led his troops east across Georgia.
Fugative Slave Act
Carpet Bagger Name Given to many Northeners who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported Republicans.
Results on the Civil War Slavery was outlawed in the US, Southern States rebuilt their economy, African Americans gained citizenship and voting rights, The first US civil rights laws were passed.
Attempts to Deny African Americans the Right to Vote?
Underground Railroad A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a net work of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North.
Freedman's Bureau Given the task of feeding and providing clothing to refugees in the South using surplus army supplies.
Anaconda Plan The Norths Plan to seperate the South.
Amnesty The act of granting a pardon to a large group of people.
Reconstruction Rebuilding the Nation after the war.
Goals of Radical Republicans They wanted to prevent the confederacy from coming back, they wanted the republican party to be powerful in the south, they wanted the federal government too.
Andrew Johnson The president after Lincoln was killed.
Economy of the North Shipping, textiles, lumber, furs, and mining.
Economy of the South Cotton starting at 2/3 of the countries exports.
War Innovations Guns, cannons, horses, and ships.
Confederate War Strategy Fight a defensive war, make war unpopular in the North, trade with Europe for supplies
Condition of Surrender
Massachusetts 54th The first black regiment that fought in the Civil War.
Black Codes Limiting the rights of African Americans in the South.
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