Reconstruction pt. 1 Flashcards
Formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
secession
System in which the residents vote to decide an issue.
popular sovereignty
System of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states.
Underground Railroad
One of the most famous conductors of the Underground Railroad who was born a slave in Maryland in 1820 or 1821 and helped 300 slaves flee to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
Published a novel called Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, which stressed that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Democratic presidential candidate who gained victory in 1852 when the Whig vote in the South fell dramatically.
Franklin Pierce
A slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom on the grounds that that living in a free state (Illinois) and a free territory (Wisconsin) had made him a free man.
Dred Scott
Democratic incumbent running opponent against Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 race for US Senate.
Stephen Douglas
Republican candidate who ran against Stephen Douglas in 1858 race for US Senate.
Abraham Lincoln
The Confederate States of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union.
Confederacy
Former senator of Mississippi who was unanimously elected as president by the Confederates.
Jefferson Davis
Most important out of four southern forts which is located on an island in Charleston Harbor.
Fort Sumter
Location of first bloodshed on the battlefield during the Civil War; only 25 miles from Washington, DC
Bull Run
Nickname given to Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson after his brave conduct at the Battle of Bull Run.
Stonewall
Union general and decisive military commander whose forces captured two western forts in just eleven days; Lincoln gave him command of the Union army in the east which led to Union victory
Ulysses S. Grant
