Civil War and Reconstruction Flashcards
President, who though a slave owner, argued that states should decide for themselves if they wanted to be a slave state or a free state, which meant the federal government wasn’t deciding the issue for them. This outraged southerners because they wanted to expand slavery in the new territory acquired from Mexico.
Zachary Taylor
Senator from Kentucky who proposed a compromise between the Free-Soilers, and those that wanted to extend the Missouri Compromise to the Pacific and those that wanted to allow popular sovereignty.
Henry Clay
Black female abolitionist who stirred audiences with her personal stories about the horrors of slavery. Famous for her “Ain’t I a woman” speech which merged both anti-slavery and women’s rights together.
Sojourner Truth
An escaped slave from Maryland who made twenty trips back into slave territory to free family members and other slaves.
Harriet Tubman
Man who led raid on federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va. in 1859 hoping to start a rebellion of slaves.
John Brown
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Series of laws passed by Congress which included such provisions as California being admitted into the Union as a free state, the abolition of the slave trade in DC and the enactment of a more effective fugitive slave law.
Compromise of 1850
Political party formed in 1854 to stop the expansion of slavery into the territories.
Republican Party
Name of the “idea” used by individuals such as Senator Cass of Michigan and Senator Stephen A Douglas of Illinois, who argued that the right to decide whether or not slavery should exist in a territory, belonged to the people of the Territory itself.
Popular Sovereignty
Slave who led a revolt in Virginia in 1831 which resulted in over fifty whites being killed before he was captured.
Nat Turner
A freed slave who as a prominent preacher in Charleston quoted from the Declaration of Independence to stir up support for freedom among slaves and would be arrested and hung for planning a slave revolt in 1822.
Denmark Vesey
One of two sisters from SC (father had been a slave owner) who spoke out against slavery and for women’s rights.
Sarah Grimke
Militant Abolitionist who published the Liberator.
Wiliam Lloyd Garrison
Law passed by Congress in 1854 which extended the principle of “popular sovereignty” for the territories and caused violence to erupt as a result of attempts to gain a majority vote.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Name given to a type of small non slave holding farmer, though could be located anywhere, were mostly found in the upland regions of the seaboard South, they populated the piedmont of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.
Yeomen
Events that occurred before the Senatorial election in Illinois in 1858. The participants would become national figures concerning the issue of slavery in the territories.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Supreme Court Decision where Chief Justice Roger Taney stated that African-Americans were not citizens and the Congress did not have the right to exclude slavery in the territories thus ruling the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
A loose organization of sympathetic abolitionists who tried to help slaves escape to the north. Some individuals would travel south to help slaves escape.
Underground Railroad
Political party evolved out of a secret nativist organization founded in 1849. They attempted to rid the US of immigrant and Catholic political influence by pressuring the existing parties to nominate only native-born Protestants to office.
Know-Nothings
Election where the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln defeated a split Democratic Party insuring southerner states would secede from the Union.
Election of 1860
Massachusetts Senator who was brutally beaten on the Senate chamber floor by an irate SC Representative Preston Brooks.
Charles Sumner
First shots of the Civil War were fired here on April 12, 1861.
Fort Sumter
The Border state whose loyalty was most vital for the protection of Washington DC.
Maryland
Which region had the advantage of a larger population during Civil war and more resources including manufacturing and finacing?
South
The first important battle of the Civil War. It was won by the Confederacy in Virginia on July 21, 1861.
1st Manassas
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Vice-President of the Confederacy
Alexander Stephens