Term | Definition |
Compromise of 1850 | Law that admitted California as a free state |
Fugitive Slave act | Forced return of slaves to the South |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | Led to the expansion of slavery in the West and "Bleeding Kansas" |
Republican Party | Lincoln's anti-slavery party; won presidency in 1860 |
Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court's ruling that slaves are property |
John Brown | White abolitionist who led a raid at Harper's Ferry |
Secession | Formal withdrawal from the Union |
Winston County, AL | Only AL county not to secede from Union |
Ulysses S. Grant | Union commander during the Civil War; became president in 1876 |
Fort Sumter | Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired |
Homestead-Act | Offered 160 acres of free western land |
Morriil-Land Grant | Land was donated to agricultural and mechanical colleges |
Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln's freeing of southern slaves |
Habeas Corpus | A person can not be imprisoned without appearing in court |
Gettysburg | Most decisive battle of the Civil War where over 50,000 men died |
Vicksburg | Union victory that cut the South in half |
Sherman's March | 60,000 hand picked troops destroyed everything from Chattanooga, TN, through Atlanta, to Savannah, GA |
Richmond | Capital of the Confederate States |
Carpetbagger | Person who went South after the war for personal profit |
Appomattox | Where Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. U.S. Grant |
13th Amendment | Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude |
Black Codes | Limited the rights of African-Americans; made them 2nd class citizens |
Scalawags | Southern traitors during Reconstruction |
John Wilkes Booth | Confederate sympathizer who shot President Lincoln at Ford Theatre |
Jefferson Davis | Confederate States of America President |