African American In The American Civil War Flashcards
Virginia held a State convention to vote for secession in unanimous decisions. When did Virginia secede from the Union ?
17 April 1861
A Fort in the vicinity of Charleston Harbor , South Carolina came under ferocious siege and cannonization by the intransigent Confederate forces . The rebels beleaguered this Union fortress beginning on 12 April 1861 . This incidence provoked this as the 1st site of the American Civil War.
Fort Sumter
The 1862 Union victory
Battle of Antietam
For Owner’s forfeiture of the claims to the slaves of labor on ground that these slaves engaged in hostile military services against the Union , he forfeited his rights to ownership of those slaves. According to the Congressional Act, it said , “… All property including slaves used in support of the rebellion is made subject to prize and capture…” What was this Act that transformed the slaves as Contrabands ?
First Confiscation Act of 1861
The Second Military Act was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln on 17 July 1862 . Its Statutory provision called for and evoked the Emancipation of all slaves of seditious and treasonous owners. Any Owner who engaged in rebellion against the Union automatically forfeited his property including Chattel slave ownership. The slaves were “…forever free of their servitude and not again held as slaves…”
Second Confiscation Act of 1862
Hoe many States seceded from the Union ?
11
“…I have no purpose , directly or indirectly , to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have NO lawful rights to do so. And I have NO inclination to do…” This speaker was a proponent of institutionalized slavery EXCEPT for Westward expansion of slavery into Western territories. This statesman was a Free Soiler.
Abraham Lincoln’s 1st Inaugural Address
This State became the 9th State to secede from the American Federation on 06 May 1861.
Arkansas
The Freedmen Bureau was created and chartered by the Act of Congress in March 1865. As an integral part of the War Department, it made provision of ration , clothes , shelters , and medical supplies to freedmen , freedwomen , and children. It regulated the brokerage of economic contracts negotiation that involved contractual labor. Schools , churches , and Freedmen Court were instituted. This establishment was formerly known by a broader nomenclature.
Bureau of Refugee , Freedmen , and Abandoned Lands
An incitement of resistance to or insurrectionary activities against the lawful authority. Etymologically speaking , this lexicon is derived from Anglo French , ‘ sediciun ‘ , Middle English , ‘ sedicion , and Latin , ‘ seditiin , in all literal translation denotes sequestration or separation. The cognate formula is sed ( apart ) + ition/itio ( the act of not going ). Thesaurus defines it as “..the crime of saying , writing , or doing something that encourages people to disobey their government . Synonymous with Misprison , treachery , insurgency , mutiny , coup d e’tat, revolution , subversion and uprising .
Sedition
The acts to overthrow the government of the State. This overt and offensive action contradicts allegiance and fealty to the State. The offender either kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign family ; The Betrayal of trust - treachery. This lexicon is synonymous with Disloyalty , double cross , faithlessness , falseness , falsity , perfidy , and infidelity. The French etymology is “ traisun and Latin as tradition or traditio meaning “… Act of handing over …”
Treason
The Confederate States of America extended admission of the FIVE Civilized tribes as referred to the Native Indian Territory. They shared the common characteristics of Human Chattel ownership and racial antipathy of the African Race. Native American Indian delegates had regular attendance at the White Supremacists’ controlled Confederacy. Among them were Seminole , Chickasaw , Chocktaw , and Creeks . What is the other Tribe ?
Cherokees
The Confederate States of America extended admission of the FIVE Civilized tribes as referred to the Native Indian Territory. They shared the common characteristics of Human Chattel ownership and racial antipathy of the African Race. Native American Indian delegates had regular attendance at the White Supremacists’ controlled Confederacy. Among them were Seminole , Chickasaw , Chocktaw ,and Creeks . What other unspecified tribe anastomosed and joined the Confederacy ?
Cherokees
The Confederate States of America as formed by 7 Secessionist Southern States was known by an alternative appellation .
Confederacy
John Crittenden , a Kentucky Senator , proposed 6 series of Constitutional amendments to extend slavery into the Pacific and Southwest States and territories by restoring and drawing upon the 36°30´ Missouri Compromise ( note its repeal by the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 ). Crittenden summoned for the prohibition of the Congress to abolish racial slavery already existing anywhere . He wanted to proscribe the Congressional interference with the Interstate Slave Trade and to subvert slaveholders from transporting human chattels North of 36°30´ bifurcated line. As a deterrent measure to preclude the Secessionists threat of leaving the Union , Congress squashed this legislative bill on 16 January 1861. What was the name of this Compromise that adjured for the Union Bifurcation into slave and freed states ?
Crittenden Compromise of 1860
