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4th History Ch 7

Abeka

TermDefinition
December 1860 The first state, South Carolina, seceded from the Union.
Early 1861 The Confederate States of America are formed BECAUSE the first state seceded.
April 1861 American Civil War begins.
January 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
January 1865 The 13th Amendment is added to the Constitution.
April 1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant, and the Civil War ends.
Transatlantic Slave Trade Act Law that ended the act of bringing enslaved people to America to be sold.
Abolitionist Person who believed slavery should be abolished or ended.
Underground Railroad Secret routes leading to free Northern states and Canada.
Compromise of 1850 Agreement that attempted to balance power in the Senate between free and slave states.
Fugitive Slave Act Law which required Northern states to return escaped slaves to the South; part of the Compromise of 1850.
Dred Scott Decision Supreme Court decision that allowed slavery in the US Territories.
Kansas-Nebraska Act Divided a section of western land into Kansas (a slave state) and Nebraska (a free state).
Republican Party Political party founded on the belief that slavery should not be allowed in the US territories.
Secede To withdraw or leave the Union.
Confederate States of America 11 states that withdrew from the Union to form their own country.
American Civil War War fought between the Union and Confederate States of America.
First Battle of Bull Run First major Civil War battle won by the South.
Merrimack Confederate ironclad ship.
Battle of Antietam Deadliest battle of the Civil War.
Emancipation Proclamation Document issued by President Lincoln that declared all slaves were free in states that had left the Union.
Battle of Gettysburg Turning point of the Civil War.
Gettysburg Address A speech by President Lincoln that honored fallen soldiers of the war.
Battle of Vicksburg Battle that gave the Union Army control of the Mississippi River.
Thirteenth Amendment Constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery in the United States.
Frederick Douglass An abolitionist who escaped from slavery and wrote a book about his life.
Harriet Beecher Stowe Abolitionist who wrote the book entitled Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Harriet Tubman Former slave who led over 70 slaves to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad.
Zachary Taylor 12th US President; nicknamed 'Old Rough and Ready.'
James Buchanan 15th US President; signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Dred Scott Slave who brought the important case regarding slavery to the Supreme Court.
Abraham Lincoln 16th US president; first Republican president.
Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States of America.
George McClellan Early commander of the Union Army of the Potomac.
Ulysses S. Grant Commander of all the Union Armies; his nickname was 'Unconditional Surrender.'
Robert E. Lee Commander of the Confederate Army.
John Wilkes Booth Actor who shot President Lincoln.
Thomas Jackson Nicknamed Stonewall.
Fort Sumter Fort in Charleston, South Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Richmond, Virginia First capital of the Confederate States of America.
Appomattox Court House Location of Lee's surrender to Grant to end the Civil War.
Ford's Theatre Location of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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