Unit 4 Flashcards
Fort Sumter
An island in Charleston harbor, that was the place of the battle beginning the Civil War.
the act of withdrawing from
succession
Led new Union Army, his army was called Army of the Potamac
“Lets prepare for 30 years”
General George McClellan
Head of Union army during invasion of western Tennesse. He was bad at everything except leading a military. He led Battle of Shiloh, captured Fort Henry, and Fort Danielson
Ulysses S. Grant
New confederate army leader after Johnston, he fought against McClellan during the 7 days battles and defeated McClellan due to unorthodox strategy.
Robert E. Lee
The battle involving the largest number of casualties during the Civil War. Union finally defeats Conf.
Gettysburg
A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Lincoln was speaking at the dedication of a soldiers’ cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Gettysburg Address
General during the Civil War known for his scorched earth policies. Led a march to Savannah from Atlanta.
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Shermans plan to march to the Atlantic Ocean destroying everything on his way
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Place where Confederate army commander Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant in the American Civil War.
Appomattox Court House
across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in whose 624 acres have been buried the dead of the nation’s conflicts beginning with the American Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars. (estate of Robert E. Lee)
Arlington cemetery
Assasinator of President Lincoln. He was an actor and he was a strong believer in slavery and surpremacy
John Wilkes Booth
The first battle of the American Civil War, fought in Virginia near Washington, D.C. The surprising victory of the Confederate army humiliated the North and forced it to prepare for a long war.
Battle of Bull Run
Why were Confederate States of America created and why was civil war inevitable?
The Confederate States of America were created when Southern States succeeded from the Union because they felt they lost their political voice in national gov. They protected and recognized slavery. It wasinevitable because the Noth and South had different interpretations of the Constitution and slavery (mainly Lincolns election)
Why was the Battle Of Gettysburg a disaster for the South?
The Battle of Gettysburg failed to accomplish its objectives and it cost General Lee and the South more than one-third of his entire army. The South was not able to topple the Lincoln government, not able to force the Union to negotiate an end to the War, and not able to do well enough to gain support from major European powers. The South was never again able to stage a large offensive against the Union.
What were Shermans objectives in marching his troops from Atlanta to Savannah?
They were supposed to get supplies & destroy anything behind them.. They vandalized homes, destroyed buildings, and tore up railroad tracks.
When the Civil War began what was Abraham Lincolns main goal?
To restore the Union
In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?
Military Leadership
Why was David Farraguts victory in April 1862 so important?
It advanced the Union plan to split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River
Why do historians call the Civil War the last of the old-fashioned wars and the first of the modern ones?
Most generals still used military tactics from Napoleons time, but the weapons were new and deadlier
What was a result of the battle of Antietam?
Lincoln fired McClellan in Novemeber 1862
Abraham Lincolns plan for reconstruction?
Make south return to the Union as quick and easy as Possible
What were the parts of the 13th amendment
1) abolished slavery in the United States and provides that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or …
2) congress has power to enforce this article
became president as he was vice president at the time of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. A Democrat who ran with Lincoln.
he favored quick restoration of succeeded states to the union
Andrew Johnson
The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederate States were readmitted into the Union
Reconstruction
One of the Congressional republicans who, after the civil war, wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders and to give African Americans full citzenship and the right to vote
Radical Republicans
Worked with Sumner to create the Radical Republican party, representative.
Thaddeus Stevens
Radical Republican bill that said Congress should be responsible for Reconstruction rather than the president. Licoln used his veto power to kill this bill
Wade-Davis bill
A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War
ex. hospitals, schools, industrial institutes, teaching centers.
Freedmen’s Bureau
Discrimatory laws that severely restricted African Americans’ lives. “Trying to make slaves again.” Prohibited blacks from carrying weapons, serving on juries, testifying against whites, marrying whites and traveling without permits
Black codes
Makes all persons born or naturalized in the United States citzens; stipulates that states that prevent male citzens from voting would lose a percentage of their congressional seats; it prevented Confederate officers from holding political positions.
Fourteenth Amendment
provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law”
“due process laws”
to formally charge an official with misconduct in office. The House of Representatives has sole power to to this to federal officials
Impeach
Said, The right to vote cannot be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
15th Amendment
Ulysses S. Grant election
His election showed the importance of African American vote to the republican party.
