Term | Definition |
The Missouri Compromise was also known as | The Compromise of 1820 |
The Missouri Compromise | Kept the balance of power equal between slave and free states by bringing in Missouri and Maine |
Bleeding Kansas | Violent era in Kansas history as both pro-slavery and anti-slavery activists flooded Kansas to vote on the issue of slavery |
The Kansas-Nebraska Act | Instituted Popular Sovereignty |
The Compromise of 1850 | Brought California in as a free state
Instituted the Fugitive slave law
Remain western lands would vote on slaver |
First State to Secede from the Union | South Carolina |
States that followed S. Carolina | Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, |
The First Battle of Bull Run | Won by the Confederacy
Stonewall Jackson credited with securing the victory |
Significance of the First Battle of Bull Run | North realized they would not win easily and were not prepared for the war. The South became too confident. |
The Fugitive Slave law | Forced escaped slaves to be returned to the southern owners even if they were in a free state |
Dred Scott decision | The Supreme Court voted that Dred Scott was not a citizen and therefore was not entitled to the rights of a citizen, also struck down the Missouri Compromise |
Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
Robert E Lee | Commanding General of the Confederacy |
Grant | Commanding General of the Union and future president |
Sherman | ruthless soldier led the Union to take Atlanta and destroyed much of the deep south in order to finally end the war. |
Andrew Stevens | Voted vice-president of the Confederacy, Georgian who opposed seceding from the Union. |
Gettysburg | Lee in Gettysburg looking for a supply of shoes. Surprise meeting of Lee's troops with a Union Scouting party. 3 day battle, turning point for the war. Eventually led to the North's victory. |
Battle of Atlanta | Led by Sherman ending in the complete destruction of the city a major railroad city for the south, devastating blow to the south. |
Emancipation Proclamation | Issued following the Battle of Antietam. Lincoln's last hope to stop the war, also gave the north a new cause to fight for. |
Emancipation Proclamation | Only freed slaves in the south did not free slaves in border states or in Federally held areas. |
Main leaders of the South | Top 1% including plantation owners and planters. |
Main leaders of the North | Factory and Railroad owners. |
Election of 1860 | 4 candidates ran. Lincoln got less than 60% of the vote. |
Popular sovereignty | Allowing the citizens of states apply for statehood to vote on the issue of slavery. |
The North's plan was to | block southern ports and gain control of the Mississippi in order to divide the south. |
Blacks in the Union army | were treated with inferior medical care, received lower pay through most of the war, were given mundane jobs and were commanded only by white officers. |