Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
25 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Free Soil Party
|
A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery
|
|
|
Missouri Compromise of 1820
|
A series of laws enactied in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between the slave states and the free states.
|
|
|
Compromise of 1850
|
A series of congressional laws intended to settle teh major disagreements between teh free states and the slave states.
|
|
|
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
|
An 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
|
|
|
Henry Clay
|
Henry Clay was a representative from Kentucky, and was a strong nationalist. He came up with the Missouri Comprimise, which kept the balance of power in the senate between the slave states and free states.
|
|
|
John Brown
|
John Brown was an extreem abolitionist.
|
|
|
Daniel Webster
|
A senator who wrote about the inaguration
|
|
|
Robert E. Lee
|
A talented Military leader
|
|
|
Fort sumter
|
A federal fort located in the harbor of Charlston, South Carolina; the Southern attack on Frot Sumter marked the beginning of teh Civil War.
|
|
|
Border States
|
A slave state that bordered states in which slavery was illegal.
|
|
|
King Cotton
|
Cotton was called king because cotton was important to teh world market, and teh South grew most of teh cotton for Europe's mills.
|
|
|
Blockade
|
when armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into or out of an area.
|
|
|
Anaconda Plan
|
A strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy in teh Civil War.
|
|
|
Cavalry
|
Soldiers on horseback.
|
|
|
Minie Ball
|
A bullet which a hollow base
|
|
|
Ulysses S. Grant
|
A general in teh Civil War.
|
|
|
Uncle Tom's Cabin
|
A novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that portrayed slavery as brutal and immortal.
|
|
|
Harriet Beecher Stowe
|
She published Uncle Tom's Cabin the novel
|
|
|
Fugitive Slave Act
|
An 1850 law to help slave holders recapture runaway slaves.
|
|
|
Dred Scott v. Sanford
|
An 1856 Supreme Court case in chich a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in territories where slavery was illegal; the Court ruled against Scott.
|
|
|
Harpers Ferry
|
A federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during a slave revolt.
|
|
|
Secede
|
to withdraw.
|
|
|
Confederate States of America
|
Teh confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after tehir secession from the Union.
|
|
|
Jefferson Davis
|
American statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War
|
|
|
Abraham Lincoln
|
The sixteeth president of teh United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States throught it's Civil War.
|
