The Civil War Flashcards
Secession
Decision by a state to leave the Union
Compromise of 1850
Series of measures hat were intended to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states
Popular sovereignty
Idea idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery
Stephen A. Douglas
Senator from Illinois who worked too pass the COmpromise of 1850
Millard Fillmore
13th President
Fugitive SLave Act
Law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them
Underground Railroad
Secret network for people who hid fugitive slaves who went north for freedom
Harriet Tubman
Famous “leader” of the underground railroads
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of the anti slavery novel Uncle TOms Cabneth
Kanas Nebraska Act
Law that split Nebraska into territories of Nebraska and Kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty there
John Brown
Fierce Opponent of slavery who led a raid that killed 5 pro slavery people
Bleeding Kanas
Nickname given to the Kanas Territory because of the bloody violence there
Franklin Pierce
14th president
Nativism
Favoring native born people over immigrants
Know - Nothing Party
Political party formed to stop the influence of immigrants
Free - soil Arty
Political party formed tot oppose extending slavery in the territories
Republican PArty
Police to party formed to oppose extending slavery in the territories
Horace Greeley
Newspaper editor who strongly supported the newly formed. Republican Party
John C Fremont
Republican candidate in thr 1856 presidential election
James Buchanan
15th president
Dred Scott
Slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory
Roger B. Taney
Chief Justice who wrote the ruling in the Dred Scott case
Abraham Lincon
President during the civil war
Freeport Doctrine
IDEa that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it
Harpers Ferry
Location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to het guns to arm slaves
Confederacy
Confederate states of America formed in 1861 by the southern states that seceded from the union
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate states of America
Fort Sumter
Union fort in Charleston, South Carolina, who’s attack started the war
Anaconda plan
Three part Union strategy to win the civil war
Bull run
Battle won by the confederate
Stonewall Jackson
Confederate General
George MCClellan
Union General
Ulysses s. Grant
Union General
Shiloh
Two day battle in which nearly one fourth of the 10,000 troops were killed, wounded or captured
Monitor
Union ironclad ship
Merrimack
Confederate ironclad ship
Robert E Lee
Confederate general
Anthem
Union Victory
Emancipation Proclamation
Order issued by Lincoln freeing slaves behind confederate lines
Habeas Corpus
Court order that say that a person who is jailed has to appear before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed
Copperhead
Northern democrat who advocated making peace with the confederacy during the civil war
Conscription
Drafting of civilians to serve in the army
Fort pillow
Site of confederate meassace of more than 200 African American war prisoners
Gettysburg
Most decisive battle of the war
Chancellorsville
Confederate victory in Virginia
Gettysburg Adress
Important speech by President Lincon
Vicksburg
Union Vicotry in Mississippi
William Tecumseh SHerman
Commander of Union troops in Georgia and South Carolina
Appomattox Court House
Sire of the confederate surrender
Income tax
Tax that takes a percentages of an individuals income
Clara Barton
Union Nurse
