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Leach Civil War
Leach Civil War chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of all the Confederate forces |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Commander of the Union forces at the end of the Civil War |
| free states | states that did not permit slavery |
| slave states | states that do permit slavery |
| Missouri Compromise | Agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state north of the slave boundary and Maine as a free state |
| emancipation | freedom |
| Emancipation Proclamation | a document issued by Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves in the Confederate states |
| states rights | the principal that the rights of the individual states should prevail over the rights of the federal government |
| nullify | prevent the enforcement of |
| popular sovereignty | a vote by those living there |
| Compromise of 1850 | agreement that allowed California to enter the union as a free state and would allow other western territories to determine their slavery status by popular sovereignty |
| MS Colonization Society | a group formed to support the emancipation of slaves and remove them to Africa |
| secession | withdrawal from the Union |
| Republican Party | political party formed to oppose the expansion of slavery |
| John C. Calhoun | Vice President under Andrew Jackson that supported nullification by the states as a way to protect slavery |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States during the Civil War. He lead the nation to end slavery with his Emancipation Proclamation and his support of the 13th Ammendment |
| Stephen Douglas | Northern Democratic candidate that lost the presidential election to Abraham Lincoln |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| John A. Quitman | Served a term as governor, faught as a general in the Mexican American War and was elected governor again in1849. He was considered a fire-eater that favored secession as a way to prevent the abolition of slavery. |
| Henry S. Foote | Elected governor of Mississippi in a close election over Jefferson Davis. He was a unionist that opposed secession. |
| John Jones Pettus | Governor of Mississippi during the Civil War. |
| Earl Van Dorn | Confederate general |
| John C. Pemberton | Confederate General in command of the forces in Mississippi |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | Confederate Cavalry commander that later became the first grand wizard of the KKK |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union General famous for his "March to the Sea" |
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