Session & Civil War Vocab Flashcards
Want soil to be free of slavery. Ok with slavery in the south just don’t want to see it expand
Free soil party
To officially separate
Secession
Missouri compromise & another compromise that does
A. Cali becomes a free state
B. Strong fugitive slave law (they have to return runaway slaves)
C. No slave trade in DC
D. New Mexico & Utah to use popular sovereignty
E. Texas gets $10000000 to shut up
Compromise of 1820 & 1850
Steven Douglas.
Kansas & Nebraska need to use popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska act
Harriet Beecher Stowe -> author
Starts changing perception of abolitionist from :( -> :). Southern read it and get offended
Uncle toms cabin
Wants to kill every slave owner
John Brown
Slave who’s master took him to Ohio o he thought he was free but the master said no so they took it to Supreme Court
Dred Scott decision
7 states wanted to succeed because Lincoln was elected someone tells Lincoln “why don’t you tell the south you’ll protect slavery where it already exists” but Lincoln refuses
Crittenden Compromise
What they call the 7 states that succeeded
Confederate states of America
President of the confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Kentucky Missouri Delaware Maryland West Virginia (Slave states do not succeed)
Border states
Commander of confederate army
Robert E Lee
Commander of Union army
US Grant
2 guy in confederacy
“Stonewall” Jackson
#2 guy in Union Uses new concept in war "total war"
William T Sherman
Battleships
Iron clads
Mandatory draft laws
In the north if you pay $300 you don’t have to fight
In the south if you had 20+ salves you didn’t have to fight
Conscription law
“Angle of the battlefield”
A nurse
Founder of red cross
Clara Barton
Official document that says slaves are free
Emancipation proclamation
Most popular speech
Gettysburg address
Nickname to northern democrats that sabotaged Lincoln’s war efforts
Copperheads
The US impressed the British ships
Trent affair
Lincoln’s assassin
John Wilkes Booth
Union constricts and suffocates the confederacy
Do 3 things
1. Take over Mississippi River
2. Take over Richmond
3. blockade ports
4. Where confederacy is the strongest, union goes
Anaconda plan
The people / new territories vote to decide if they have slavery or not.
Steven Douglas
Popular sovereignty
