Unit 4 Vocabulary Flashcards
Proposed but rejected, 1864 bill that would have banned slavery in the territory won from Mexico in the Mexican War
Wilmot Proviso
Mass migration to California after the discovery of gold in 1848
California Gold Rush of 1849
Political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories & enacting stricter fugitive slave law
Compromise of 1850
Law that required all citizens to aid in apprehending run away slaves
Fugitive Slave Law/Act
Principle in which the people are the only source of government power
Popular Sovereignty
1854 law that divided the Nebraska Territory into Kansas & Nebraska giving each territory the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Term used to describe the 1854-1856 violence between pro-slavery and antislavery supporters in Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott, who was taken from a slave state to a free state and into free territory, argued that when he came back from the free territories that he should be free.
Court stated that he nor any other African American could never be free because they were considered property by the state.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Abolitionist, got 20 black and white men to raid a Federal arsenal to find and arm slaves and rebel to freedom. Slaves didn’t join for fear of the consequences. Organizer was later captured and hanged.
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
Antislavery political party of the mid 1800s
Free Soil Party/ Free Soilers
President who believed that the nation could not continue to exist half slave and half free
President who kicked off his campaign with a speech summarizing his position in 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Supported popular sovereignty as the way to solve the slavery crisis
Stephen Douglas
Federal fort located in Charleston, SC where the first shots of the Civil War was fired
Fort Sumter
During the Civil War, the states that allowed slavery but remained in the Union: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri
Border states
Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports & controlling the Mississippi River
Anaconda Plan
President of the “Confederate” States of America; Served in the U.S. House of Representatives, then left to serve in the war with Mexico, returned a hero, became U.S. Senate then later became President of the CSA
Tried for treason but pardoned by President Johnson
Jefferson Davis
Union Troops attack General Lee’s army near Antietam Creek.
Although the Union lost more than the Confederates, Lincoln felt he had the secured a victory that would set up the platform for announcing the Emancipation Proclaimation
Battle of Antietam
Battle in 1863 in which Confederate troops were prevented from invading the North & which resulted in more that 50,000 casualties
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle that resulted in the Union besieging the city. Confederates surrender and the Union achieves victory
Battle/Siege of Vicksburg
Decree by President Lincoln that free enslaved people living in Confederate states still in rebellion
Emancipation Proclamation
The act of attacking & sieging cities as well as military targets
Total War/March to the Sea
Program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the South caused by the Civil War & return the southern states to the Union
Reconstruction
Lincoln’s Plan that allowed for Southern Statess to reconstruct upon 10% of citizens to agree to swear an oath to the Union and agree to abolish slavery
Lincoln’s 10% plan
Plans that were aligned after the Civil War to return the Southern States to the Union/the condition they were in before the war and laws passed to make African American’s citizens
Presidential Reconstruction Plan
