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Section 1
(50 cards)
Dred Scott
a slave from Missouri- taken north of the Missouri Compromise line. His owner died, and then he began a lawsuit for freedom.
Harpers Ferry
This was where John Brown led 21 men to seize guns and give them to slaves
Compromise of 1850
a series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states
Stonewall Jackson
Lee's right hand man; killed by friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville
Personal Liberty Laws
Forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed jury trials for fugitive slaves.
George McClellan
American army general put in charge of Union troops and later removed by Lincoln for failure to press Lee's Confederate troops in Richmond
Freeport Doctrine
Expressed by Stephen Douglas in 1858, that any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it
Monitor v. Merrimack
- First engagement between ironclad ships; - fought at Hampton Roads, VA, on March 9, 1862. - this battle ended wooden ship warfare
conscription
compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces
popular sovereignty
a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
Harriet Tubman
One of the most famous Underground Railroad conductors
Anaconda Plan
- military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War - called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces
Confederacy
Formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union
Copperheads
a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War
Know-Nothing Party
a name given to the American Party, formed in the 1850s to curtail the political influence of immigrants
Robert E. Lee
A former U.S. general that headed the Confederate army after Virginia seceded.
Free-Soil Party
a political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories
Bleeding Kansas
a name applied to the Kansas Territory when the territory was a battleground between proslavery and antislavery forces
Clara Burton
- "angel of the battlefield" - Launched the American Red Cross in 1881
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Published in 1852, that portrayed slavery as a great moral evil
secession
the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union
Fort Sumter
Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War
Republican Party
The modern political party that was formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories
Horace Greeley
One of the founders of the Republican Party
William Tecumseh Sherman
Union General who destroyed South's will to fight during "March to the Sea" from Atlanta to Savannah and then through South Carolina
Franklin Pierce
A democratic candidate that won the 1853 election
Underground Railroad
a system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape
Gettysburg Address
- dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal" - "these honored dead...gave the last full measure of devotion" - "the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom"
James Buchanan
The Democratic candidate from Pennsylvania - he was out of the country and had not antagonized the north or the south HE WON
Battle of Gettysburg
July 1-3, 1863; turning point of the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant
- He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. - eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877)
Millard Fillmore
The successor of President Taylor after his unexpected death.
Vicksburg
Grant besieged the city from May 18 to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union.
Fugitive Slave Act
Designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage
Stephen A. Douglas
He engineered the passage of the Compromise of 1850
Rodger B. Taney
Supreme Court Chief Justice who handed down the Dred Scott decision
Antietam
A battle near a sluggish little creek, it proved to be the bloodiest single day battle in American History with over 26,000 lives lost in that single day.
Wilmot Provisio
bill proposing that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery.
Civil War
A war between people of the same country; occurred in the U.S. from 1861 to 1865
John Brown
A fiery idealist who believed that God had called on him to fight slavery
Appomattox Court House
Famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant
nativism
favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people
Abraham Lincoln
The Republican candidate who went up against Douglas for the Senate
John C. Fremont
The Republican candidate in 1856, the famed "Pathfinder" who had mapped the Oregon Trail
Harriet Beecher Stowe
An ardent abolitionist who published the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
Bull Run
1st real battle, Confederate victory, Washingtonian spectators gather to watch battle, Gen. Jackson stands as Stonewall and turns tide of battle in favor of Confederates, realization that war is not going to be quick and easy for either side
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
Emancipation Proclamation
presidential proclamation and executive order declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free"
Battle of Chancellorsville
A major battle in the American Civil War, the Confederates under Robert E. Lee defeated the Union forces under Joseph Hooker.However, General Jackson died after being shot by friendly fire.
Jefferson Davis
The President of the Confederate States of America
Section 2
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