Civil War Flashcards
The solution that emerged in the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was to admit Missouri as a
Slave state and Maine a free state
A person claiming an African American had escaped from slavery had only to point out that person as a runaway to take him or her into custody under the
fugitive slave law
In his 1st inaugural speech, President Lincoln
addresses how the US will fall apart with out all the states being united as one.
Although most southerners did not own slaves, they still opposed Lincoln as a presidential candidate. Why?
They felt like he was a threat to their way of life, and the slave would take away jobs
Lincoln wanted to prevent Maryland from seceding because if it did
Washington DC would be surrounded by confederacy
Jefferson Davis wanted to fight a war of attrition, in which the South would
Defensive strategy
invade north only if opportunity arises
outlast the north
Winfield Scott’s “Anaconda Plan” proposed doing what?
blockade southern ports
divide the confederacy in two in west
capture the capital, richmound
The Emancipation Proclamation
freed slaves behind confederate lines, not issued for the Union
Early on April 6, 1862, Confederate forces launched a surprise attack on Grant’s troops who were camped out near a small church named
Battle of shiloh
Because of the Union victory at Antietam, President Lincoln felt confident in
enforcing the emancipation proclamation
How did the victory at Vicksburg benefit the Union?
weakened the confederacy by spliting it in half
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by
John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Threater
anaconda plan
blockade southern ports
divide the confederacy in two in west
capture the capital, richmound
4 main parts of the Compromise of 1850
California became a free state
popular sovereignty
harsher fugitive slave law
slave trade banned in Washington DC
With his ragged and battered troops, surrounded and outnumbered, General Lee surrendered to General Grant at
Appomattox courthouse
