Chapters 20-22 Flashcards
Fort Sumter
Lincoln wants to provision island, South takes it as an attack
Border States
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia, with Union but are proslave
Trent Affair
Union foricbly removes 2 CSA envoys from Brit ship
Laird rams
ship that ram into other, powerful, Brit
Alabama
powerful Brit ship for CSA
Dominion of Canada
gave relative independence to Canada
writ of habeas corpus
Lincoln suspends Habeas Corpus
Morrill Tariff Act
Republican’s protective tariff
Greenbacks
fluctuate with Union success
National Banking System
if you join, your bank can by government bonds
Homestead Act
allows pioneers to settle for free in the west
U.S Sanitary Comission
trained nurses, collected medical supplies and equipped hospitals
Charles Francis Adams
president of the Pacific Railroad
Napoleon III
invades mexico and puts Maximilian on throne
Jefferson Davis
CSA president
Elizabeth Blackwell
first female doctor
Clara Barton
founder of red cross
Sally Tompkins
Female confederate nurse
Bull Run
north gets humbled, first battle
Peninsula Campaign
McClellan’s campaign to capture Richmond
Merimack
plated with iron, Southern
Monitor
plated with iron, Northern
Second Battle of Bull Run
Lee wins with frontal attack
Antietam
McClellan victory, Maryland
Emancipation Proclamation
made after Antietam, frees slaves
Fredericksburg
Lee’s strong position slaughters A.E Burnside
Gettysburg
most violent battle. Seesawed back and forth but North wins
Gettysburg Address
critics don’t like it, Abe is speaking for the ages
Fort Henry and Fort Donaldson
Grant’s first few victories
Shiloh
Grant’s victories in Tennessee
Vicksburg
Grant’s fight, gains cattle
Sherman’s March
Sherman kills and burns everything in sight
Congressional Committeeon the Conduct of War
Republicans who hated the expansion of government during war
Copperheads
hated war
The Man Without a Country
based off of Vallandigham
Union party
Republican party temporarily dissipates
Wilderness Campaign
Grant versus Lee in Virginia
Appomattox Courthouse
Grant offers Lee generous terms
Reform Bill of 1867
Britain becomes a true political democracy
John Pope
territorial governor of Arkansas
Salmon P. Chase
US Treasury Secretary under Abe
Freedmen’s Bureau
Primitive welfare agency for blacks
10% Construction plan
10% of voters in 1860 elections swear oath
Wade-Davis Bill
50% instead of 10%
Black Codes
designed to regulated affairs of emancipated blacks, and for a supply of labor
Pacific Railroad Act
built railroad to Pacific, during only North, Union era
Fourteenth Ammendment
1) conferred civil rights 2) reduced representation if blacks denied 3) CSA officers denied of office 4) guaranteed federal debt
Reconstruction Act
divided South into 5 military districts
Ex Parte Milligan
military tribunals could not judge citizens, ever, ignored during reconstruction
Redeemers
Reactionaries after Union troops left
Woman’s Loyal League
gathers 400,000 abolitionist signatures for a petition
Union League
black political club
scalawags and carpetbaggers
upstart blacks
Force Acts
Federal troops allowed to stamp out “lash law”
Tenure of Office Act
Johnson vetoes it
Seward’s Folly
Seward foolishly buys “Walrussia”
Oliver O. Howard
Union general, suffers defeat at Chancerllorsville and Gettysburg
Thaddeus Stevens
along with Sumner, leader of the black right’s cause
Hiram Revels
first black man to serve in Senate
Edwin M. Stanton
secretary of war during Lincoln administration
Benjamin Wade
republican radical
William Seward
Abe’s secretary of state.
