Chapters 14 & 15 Flashcards
What is the lifestyle of northerners
- urban way of life
- most people lived on farms, others in factories and small towns
Method of welfare that involves civilians as targets and is designed to destroy the opposing army and the people’s way to fight
Total War
Statement issued by president Abraham Lincoln freeing all slaves in confederate states still at war with the union
Emancipation proclamation
Amendment to the United States constitution ratified in 1868
Fourteenth amendment
Amendment to the United States ratified in 1870
Fifteenth amendment
Union victory at Gettysburg,Pennsylvania
Battle of Gettysburg
Law passed in 1820 that divided the Louisiana territory into a southern area that allowed slavery and the northern area that did not.
Missouri compromise
Civil war speech given by Lincoln in 1863 at the cite of the battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
First major battle of the civil war
First battle of bull run
Organized system of secret routes used by people escaped slavery
Underground Railroad
Amendment to the United States constitution that abolished slavery
Thirteenth Amendment
Union victory at Vicksburg, Mississippi
Battle of Vicksburg
Period of building after the civil war
Reconstruction
What is the lifestyle of the southerners
- Rural way of life
- most people worked/lived on farms and small towns
What were the the advantages of the south
They were familiar with lots of weapons
They had history of producing military leaders
A large share of veterans that fought in the Mexican war were in the south
And the fought on their own ground