Unit 5- Significant Slideshow Items Flashcards
Cannibals All
Written by George Fitzhugh, made “wage slavery” argument
What inspired H.B. Stowe to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Fugitive Slave Act
The _____________ reaped the Missouri Compromise.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
“Bleeding Kansas”
series of violent political confrontations
Preston Brooks (SC) nearly beat _____ to death.
Charles Sumner
SC succeeded four days after…
the election of 1860
Who was the president of the CSA?
Jefferson Davis
What fort did rebels attack in 1861?
Fort Sumner (Charleston, SC)
Lincoln believed in fight to…
preserve the union
Clara Barton
founded Red Cross
Anaconda Plan
North
- blockade southern ports
- divide South at Miss. River
- cut through heart of southern homeland
- capture Richmond
Battle of First Bull Run
VA, first major land battle
How many people died in the Civil War?
620,000
What were the three major issues when attempting to reunite the union?
readmission of states, status of freedman, and treatment of former rebels
Who shot Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth