History 103 : US History I Flashcards
Siege of Vicksburg
This battle marked the beginning of the end for the Confederacy. The North gained control of the entire Mississippi River and divided the Confederacy down the middle.
The South
This ‘side’ within the Civil War had a strategic advantage with more experienced military leaders and the home-team advantage of fighting on their own soil.
The Compromise of 1877
(Americas XO __)
This marked the end of the Reconstruction period by choosing America’s executive officer (Hayes) and removing federal troops from the South.
Appomattox Courthouse
Place where Gen. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Gen. Grant in 1865.
The 13th Amendment
This amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States. The previous effort to do so, the Emancipation Proclamation, only partially freed the slaves.
Settlement in the West
(As it relates to Railroads)
The government encouraged this movement by offering free land to two railroad companies in exchange for building new tracks to build a path to the West.
Reconstruction Period
The formal name for the government’s process of trying to rebuild the South’s economy, society and infrastructure following the Civil War.
South Carolina
This was the first state that voted unanimously to withdraw from the United States. This state also created a domino effect with seven states following shortly after.
Dredd Scott Decision
A Supreme Court case that determined that black Americans were not citizens. The Fourteenth Amendment overturned that ruling, stating that all persons born on U.S. soil are citizens.
The Anaconda Plan
Union strategy that attacked Confederacy on all sides & was successful in the Western territories; resulted in the Battle of Hampton Roads, Shiloh, Antietam, and Fall of New Orleans.
Sherman’s March to the Sea
The destruction of property by the Union army marching through Georgia to undermine the Confederate war effort.
Slavery in the West
This was widely debated as the U.S. expanded West and led people to question whether or not to allow these rights in the newly acquired states.
Suing for Freedom
(Slave Master __ Emerson)
After Dred Scott’s slave owner, John Emerson died, Dred Scott and his wife decided to do this to the Missouri Court.
John Brown
This person was a staunch abolitionist who took part in the Underground Railroad. His goal was to take radical action and incite a slave rebellion, creating an army of freed slaves.
General Scott’s Four-Part Plan
- Blockade the South to cut off the exports and imports,
- Seize the Mississippi River,
- Divide the South along the Tennessee River and march east through Georgia,
- Capture Richmond
Emancipation Proclamation
This freed all slaves in the rebelling Southern states.
Causes of the Civil War
Slavery, states rights, and industrial and agricultural future
The North
This ‘side’ in the Civil War had a larger number of weapons and men ready to fight.
Radical Republicans
This group planned to reappoint plantation land to former slaves, use federal power to enforce the end of slavery in the South, and rewrite their constitutions to make slavery illegal.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This divided the great plains territories into two states, and the issue of slavery would be decided by the settlers, not congress, in the territories by popular sovereignty.
Andrew Johnson
This president vetoed numerous bills because he believed that many of them detracted from state power and gave power to the federal government.
Presidential Election of 1860
This was a four-way race between a split Democratic Party, the Republican Party and the Constitutional Union Party. Despite not being on the ballot in the south, Lincoln was elected.
Declaration of the Civil War
This war was never declared. Congress was out of session and the Confederacy was never recognized as a nation by any sovereign states.
General Lee’s surrender
After this major act occurred, Grant and the Northerners viewed Southern rebels as fellow Americans, allowing them to keep their weapons and horses.