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U.S. History 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Wilmot Proviso | the proposed, but rejected, 1846 bill that would have banned slavery in the territory won from Mexico in the Mexican War |
| Popular Sovereignty | people control all political power |
| secede | to withdraw formally from a membership in a group or an organization |
| Compromise of 1850 | a political agreement that admitted California to the Union as a free state while permitting popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law |
| Fugitive Slave Act | a law that required all citizens to aid in apprehending people trying to escape slavery; a part of the Compromise of 1850 |
| Underground Railroad | a system that existed before the Civil War in which African American and white abolitionists helped people trying to escape enslavement travel to safe areas in the North and in Canada |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | an 1854 law that divided the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska, giving each territory the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery |
| Bleeding Kansas | a term used to describe the violence between proslavery and antislavery supporters in Kansas from 1854 to 1856 |
| "Know-Nothings" | a political party of the 1850s, officially known as the American Party, that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant |
| Republican Party | a political party established around an antislavery platform in 1854 |
| Harpers Ferry | a town in Virginia (now West Virginia) where abolitionist John Brown raided a federal arsenal in 1859 |
| Border States | during the Civil War, states that allowed slavery but remained in the Union: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri |
| Confederate States of America | the government of 11 southern states that seceded from the United States and fought against the Union in the Civil War |
| Union | portion of the country that remained loyal to the federal government during the Civil War |
| Confederacy | portion of the country that seceded from the United States, creating their own separate government |
| Blockade | a military tactic in which a navy prevents vessels from entering or leaving its enemy's ports |
| Anaconda Plan | a northern Civil War strategy to starve the south by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River |
| Emancipation Proclamation | a decree by President Lincoln that declared free all enslaved people living in Confederate states and territories still in rebellion against the Union on January 1, 1863 |
| Militia Act | an 1862 law that allowed African American soldiers to serve in the Union military |
| 54th Massachusetts Regiment | an all African American unit led by Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw during the Civil War |
| Gettysburg Address | a speech by President Lincoln in which he dedicated a national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and reaffirmed the ideas for which the Union was fighting the Civil War; delivered November 19, 1863 |
| 13th Amendment | the 1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States |
| Appomattox Court House | conflict where general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union general Ulysses S. Grant |
| Juneteenth | the day that 250,000 slaves in Texas were freed, putting a final end to slavery |
| Fort Sumter | located in Charleston, South Carolina, April 12-14th, 1861, first shots of the Civil War fired, Confederate victory |
| Bull Run/Manassas | located in Fairfax County, Virginia, July 21, 1861, first full-scale battle of the War, Confederate victory |
| Merrimack v Monitor | located in Hampton Roads, Virginia, March 8-9th, 1862, first use of ironclad warship in the War, inconclusive |
| Antietam | located in Washington County, Maryland, September 17th, 1862, bloodiest battle of the War, Union victory |
| Gettysburg | located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1-3rd, 1863, largest battle ever fought in North America, Union victory |
| March to the Sea | located in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, September 2nd, 1864, Sherman took control of the cities, invading enemy territory, Union benefits from stolen land |
| Harriet Tubman | escaped slavery in 1849 and traveled to Philadelphia, became a conductor of the Underground Railroad, lead hundreds of people, including her family, to freedom in the north |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | American writer and abolitionist best known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that detailed the hardships of slavery |
| John Brown | American abolitionist best known for leading a raid on harpers ferry, remembered by some as a militant extremist and by others as a martyr in the cause against slavery |
| Dred Scott | born into slavery, sued for freedom because he was living in a free state, Supreme Court ruled against him and said that his time in a free state did not make him exempt from slavery |
| Roger B. Taney | fifth Chief Justice, made the decision against Scott in Dred Scott v Stanford, stating that slaves did not have constitutional rights and that Congress had no right to ban slavery in the territories |
| Abraham Lincoln | republican president, ran an unsuccessful campaign against Stephen A. Douglas for a position in the Senate, became president in 1861, led the Union through the Civil War |
| Stephen A. Douglas | U.S. Senator believed in westward expansion and popular sovereignty, proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, helped pass the Compromise of 1850 |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America, opposed secession, resigned his seat in Senate when Mississippi seceded |
| John C. Breckenridge | nominee of the Southern Democrats in a divided Democratic Party, confederate officer during the Civil War, and later the Confederate secretary of war |
| William T. Sherman | renowned Union general during the Civil War, fought in the battles of Bull Run and Shiloh before joining forces with General Grant, led his 'March to the Sea' to capture Savannah, Georgia |
| Robert E. Lee | Virginia military general, commander of the Confederate forces during the Civil War, surrendered his forces to Union general Grant at Appomattox Court House |
| Stonewall Jackson | one of the most renowned Confederate generals of the Civil war, led his troops to victory at the battle of bull run in 1861 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union general, led his army to victory in the Battle of Shiloh and Battle of Vicksburg, appointed commander of Union armies in 1864, led the Union to victory at Appomattox Court House, where he accepted General Lee's surrender on April 9, 1865 |
| George Pickett | a Confederate general during the Civil War, led Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3rd, 1863 |
| John Wilkes Booth | American actor who shot and killed President Lincoln on April 14, 1865 |
| Mathew Brady | American photographer and journalist known for his photographic documentation during the Civil War |
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