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Unit 6 Civil War
8th grade U.S. History
Question | Answer |
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Compromise of 1850 | Put a temporary end to dispute over free/slave states. Determined how land from the Mexican War would be free/slave areas. |
Reform, or the Age of Reform | Changes in 1830-1850 to make society better. Ex: schools, disabled, prisons, child labor, abolition, temperance (alcohol), women’s suffrage (right to vote) |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Leader of the early women’s rights movement; organized Seneca Falls Convention & wrote “Declaration of Sentiments” |
Abolitionist movement | Movement to end (abolish) slavery; (ex. William Lloyd Garrison- editor of The Liberator) |
Fort Sumter | First battle of the Civil War; April 1861 in South Carolina |
Frederick Douglass | Former slave who worked for abolition through speeches & newspaper The North Star |
Missouri Compromise (1820) | Missouri came in as a slave state Maine as a free state. No slavery north of the 36 30’ line |
Daniel Webster | A senator from Massachusetts; he supported the Union and the Compromise of 1850 |
Henry Clay | The senator from Kentucky who worked out the Compromise of 1850 |
13th, 14th, 15th Amendment | 13- ended all slavery in the US; 14—citizenship & equal protection under the law to all born in US; 15- right to vote to all men regardless of race |
Sojourner Truth | Former slave who worked for abolition & women’s rights through speeches (“Ain’t I a Woman?”) |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; increased awareness of “evils of slavery” |
Dred Scott v. Sanford | Supreme Court case 1857; determined that slaves were property eventhough taken to free state |
Lincoln-Douglas Debates | Series of debates between Abe Lincoln & Stephen Douglas over slavery |
John Brown | Led a raid to arm slaves at Harper’s Ferry, VA; increased fears in South |
Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of US (Union) during the Civil War; wrote Emancipation Proclamation |
Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America (the South) |
Appomattox Court House | Civil War ended here when Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865 |
Battle of Gettysburg & Gettysburg Address | Turning point of Civil War: the South continued retreat after losing here in July 1863; Lincoln’s speech in memory of those that died |
1861-1865 | Time period of the American Civil War |
Emancipation Proclamation | Document signed by Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in the “rebellious states” in 1863 |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | Allowed citizens of KS & NE to decide if they would be slave or free (popular sovereignty); led to “Bleeding Kansas” |
Robert E. Lee | Commander of the Confederate Forces; wise military leader & beloved by soldiers |
Ulysses S. Grant | Most successful Commander of the Union Forces in Civil War |
Hiram Rhodes Revels | First Black citizen to be elected to the U.S. senate |
Stonewall Jackson | Trained at West Point before the Civil War, was known for being “stonewall” in the Civil War |
Philip Bazaar | Navy man who was awarded the Medal of Honor during the Civil War |
William Carney | First African American to receive the Medal of Honor |
Henry David Thoreau | Transcendentalism (believed in the goodness of humans) writer, supported abolitionism, and writing against slavery |
The 54th Regiment | The first regiment of black troops to fight in the Civil war |