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39 Cards in this Set
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Secession |
the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union |
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Popular Sovereignty |
the right to vote for or against slavery |
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Underground railroad |
The system f escape routes used by fugitive slaves |
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Harriet Tubman |
Former slave who was a famous conductor of the underground railroad |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Publisher of uncle tom's cabin and abolitionist |
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Franklin Pierce |
Democratic candidate, anti-abolitionist, and the 14th president of the United states |
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Dred Scott |
A slave whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri to free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin and back to Missouri. Scott appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom on the grounds that living in a free state-- Illinois-- and a free territory--Wisconsin -- had made him a free man |
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Stephen Douglas |
Well known tow-term senator and Democratic incumbent who faced Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 race for the U.S senate. Also known as the little giant |
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Abraham Lincoln |
16th president of the United States |
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Confederacy |
The Southern secessionist, also called the Confederate states of America |
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Jefferson Davis |
Former Senator and Mississippian who was elected as the confederacy's president |
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Fort Sumter |
A southern fort that was fought over which rallied the north and made more southern states secede |
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Bull Run |
A battle 25 miles away from Washington DC which marked the first bloodshed of the civil war and where general Thomas J. Jackson coined the name "Stonewall Jackson" |
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Stonewall Jackson |
Confederate general Thomas J. Jackson, who died of his wounds by accidental friendly fire |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
a brave and decisive U.S military commander who became the 18th president of the United States |
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Robert E. Lee |
Confederate general who surrendered in Appmattox |
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Antietam |
A fight between McClellan and Robert E. Lee's troops, which resulted in the bloodiest battle of American history. Mclellan pushed the soldiers back, but did not pursue, which caused him to be removed from command |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
A document by Abraham Lincoln that made the Declaration that all slaves in confederate states were henceforth considered free |
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Conscription |
A draft that forced man to serve in the army |
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Clara Barton |
Union army nurse and founder of the American Red Cross |
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Income tax |
a tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual's income |
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Gettysburg |
A battle in Gettysburg in which the Union States pushed back confederate forces and Robert E. Lee's goal to invade the Northern states |
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Gettysburg Address |
A speech by Abraham Lincoln that "remade America" (by making the states more of a nation) and asserted that we could not let the soldiers that perished at Gettysburg die in vain |
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Vicksburg |
A battle in which the confederates surrendered one of their two remaining strongholds on the Mississippi river |
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William Tecusmseh Sherman |
Commander of the military division of the Mississippi who also commanded the Sherman's march in which Sherman began his march southeast through Georgia to the sea, creating a wide path of destruction and imposing himself on confederate forces |
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Appomattox Court House |
A place in Virginia where Lee and Gran met at to arrange a Confederate surrender |
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Thirteenth Amendment |
Ratified in 1865. "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 |
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John Wilkes Booth |
A 26 year old actor and Southern sympathizer who assassinated Abraham Lincoln |
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Reconstruction |
the period during which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War |
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Radical Republicans |
Republicans who wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders |
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Andrew Johnson |
Abraham Lincoln's successor after he was assassinated who vetoed a multitude of radical Republican bills until he was impeached |
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Fourteenth Amendment |
Directly went against the Dred Scott case. Prevents states from denying rights and privileges to any U.S citizen, now defined as "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" |
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Fifteenth Amendment |
No one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
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Scalawags |
White Southerners who joined the Republican Party |
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Carpetbaggers |
were Northerners who moved to the South after the war |
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Hiram Revels |
the first African American Senator |
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Sharecropping |
landowners dividing their land and assigning each head of household a few acres, along with seed and tools. In return, sharecroppers kept a small share of their crops and gave the rest to the landowners |
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Ku Klux Klan |
Southern "vigilante" group who opposed reconstruction. Their goals were to destroy the Republican Party, to throw out the Reconstruction governments, to aid the planter class, and to prevent African Americans from exercising their political rights |
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Freedmen's Bureau |
Government organization established by Congress which supported reconstruction by providing food, clothing, hospitals, legal protection, and education for former slaves and poor whites in the south |
