Chapter 15 Flashcards
confederate states of america
South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia voted to create ______ with _____ as their president.
crittenden plan
1860 compromise proposal on the slavery issue designed to defuse tension between North and South; would have allowed slavery to continue in the South and would have denied Congress the power to regulate interstate slave trade; Republicans in Congress voted against it.
fort sumter
Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War
total war
A war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields.
jefferson davis
An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865
george mcclellan
He was a Union general that was in charge during the beginning of the war. He defeated Lee, at Antietam, securing a much needed Union victory.
robert e lee
Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
king cotton diplomacy
the South’s political strategy during the Civil War; it depended upon British and French dependency on southern cotton to the extent that those two countries would help the South break the blockade
emancipation proclamation
Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
anaconda policy
northern strategy to win war. planned on ‘squeezing’ the south like an anaconda squeezes its prey, naval blockade and capture of Mississippi corridor
ulysses s grant
an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
virginia
Large state” proposal for the new constitution, calling for proportional representation in both houses of a bicameral Congress. The plan favored larger states and thus prompted smaller states to come back with their own plan for apportioning representation.
merrimack
Abandoned Union warship salvaged by the Confederacy. Enforced with iron plates to become an ironclad ship. Renamed “Virginia”
monitor
An iron-clad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac
alabama
British built Confederate commerce raider responsible for capturing over 60 vessels
