Civil War Vocabulary Flashcards
Armory
Storehouse for weapons
Assimilate
Adopt the manner and language of a country
Bleeding Kansas
Violent conflicts between settlers (200 died)
Blockade-runners
Fast southern ships
Border states
States immediately north of the confederation
Clipper
Quick tail boat
Commander
Seize or take over property
Compromise of 1850
- CA free
- NM &UT popular sovereignty
- Pay Texas (for NM)
- D.C ends slave trade & keeps slavery
Confederacy
The group of states that has seceded form the United States
Conscription
Mandatory military service (drafting)
Copperheads
Peace democrats
Cotton gin
Eli whitney’s engine for removing seeds from cotton
Discrimination
Mistreatment based on race sex or religion
Dred Scott decision
Saves have to legal rights
Slaver are property
Emancipation
Free
Emancipation proclamation
January 1, 1863 : presidential deceleration naming all slaves in seceded states “free forever”
Free-spoil party
Free soil speech labor and men
Fugitive
A run away from the law.
Habeas corpus
Court order trial before jail
Immigrant
Person that comes from another country
Ironclad
Iron-plated ship
Kansas-Nebraska act
Popular sovereignty for slaves issue in KS and NE
Labor union
Workers organized to improve working conditions
Martial law
Military rules with suspended rights and freedoms
Nativist
Someone who distrusts mistreats immigrants
Oppression
Feeling weighed down by unfair treatments
Patent
Legal right to make use or sell on invention
Popular sovereignty
Rule by the people
Raid on harpers ferry
John brown and his followers attempt to steal weapons from a federal armory and start a slave revolution
Rebels
Confederation army
Republican
Party of Lincoln;keep slavery out of the territories
Royalty
Payment for use of a patented product
Abolitionist
People who want to end slavery
