click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
American History st
Civil War st
| Topic | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 | N- California joins the union as a free state, Slave trade in Washington D.C. would be abolished S- New Mexico and Utah territories open to slavery, Strong fugitive slave law. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | It was an act that gave Nebraska free territory and Kansas slave territory. |
| Violence in the Senate 1856 | Preston Brooks beat up Charles Sumptner with a cane. The southerners were satisfied. |
| Dred Scott Case | Dred Scott sued to end his slavery, arguing that living in free territory made him a free man. But supreme court said he wasnt U.S. citizen |
| John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry | John Brown was a fervent abolitionist who opposed slavery and developled a plan to raid Harper's Ferry give guns to slaves and start a rebellion. |
| Election of 1860 | Lincoln did not feel slavery could continue in this country, and that resulted in 7 southern states succeeding and 4 others following. |
| Session | Taking States out of the Union. |
| Jefferson Davis | Mississippi Senator who was to be President. That believed the South should be heard. |
| Ft. Sumter | The start of the war. 1861 april 12. |
| Causes of the Civil War | Disagreement over slavery, Kansas Nebraska act sparked violence in Kansas, Southern states seceded from the union. |
| 13th Amendment | banning slavery in the United states |
| 14th Amendment | granting citizenship to all persons born or nationalized in the United States and no slave can deprive life, liberty or property without due process |
| 15th Amendment | the right to vote shall not be denied because of color or previous condition of servitude |
| Battle of Antietam | North won, Bloodiest day of Civil war. South lost chance for international support. Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation |
| Battle of Gettysburg | 51,000 casualties and this battle turned the tides of the war in favor of the Union |
| Battle of Vicksburg | |
| John Wilkes Booth | the person who assassinated lincoln |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union General |
| Robert E. Lee | Senior officer of the United States Army |
| 1st Battle of Bull Run | Showed that both sides needed training and that is was going to be a long and bloody war. |
| Abolition | |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Freed all inslaved persons in states still in rebellion. |
| Harriet Tubman | Helped escaped slaves through the underground railroad. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Was the president in November of 1860. Many southerners viewed Lincoln's election as a threat. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | Gave citizenship to all people born in the us. except native americans guaranteed rights of african 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 |
| Fugitive Slave Act | |
| Carpetbaggers | name given to the many northerners who moved to the south after the civil war and supported the republicans |
| Results of the Civil War | Slavery was outlawed, Southern states rebuild their economy, African Americans gain citizenship. |
| Attempts to deny African Americans the Right to Vote | |
| Underground RR | Informal but well organized network of Abolitionists. |
| Freedman's Bureau | given the task of feeding and clothing war refugees in the south using surplus army supplies |
| Anaconda Plan | Naval blockade of Southern ports, Capture the Confederate capital- Richmond. Seize control of the mississippi, cut of flow up supplies. |
| Amnesty | Pardon to all southerners who took an oath. |
| Reconstruction | Rebuilding the South after the Civil 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 to.. |
| Andrew Johnson | the president after Lincoln was killed |
| Economy of the North | An economic bass including shipping, textiles, lumber, furs, and mining. |
| Economy of the South | The main export was cotton starting at 2/3 of the countries exports. |
| Causes of the Civil War | Dissagreement over legal and mortality and politics of slavery. |
| War Innovations | guns, cannons, horses, 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 |