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| Proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the US by the Mexican cession; passed in the House of Reps but defeated in the Senate. |
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| a devotion to the interests of one geographic region rather than to those of the country as a whole. |
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| Principle that would allow voters in a territory to decide whether to ban or permit slavery. |
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| Free-Soil Party (Hey, the US should be free soil man!!! People here should be free!!) |
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| Political party formed in 1848 by anti-slavery northerners who left the Whig and democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issue |
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| Kentucky Senator who provided the basic ideas for the compromise of 1850. |
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| Delivered a stirring speech in support of the Compromise of 1950 and criticized northern abolitionists and scolded southerners who spoke of disunion. |
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| proposed by Henry Clay. California to enter the union as a free state. Divided Mexican cession into 2 territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty. Introduced Fugitive slave Act/ |
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| (1850)Law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders. |
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| A fugitive slave from Virginia who was captured and jailed in Boston. Violence arose when abolitionists tried to free him by force. |
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| (1952) Antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher STowe that showed northerners the cruelties of slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists cause. |
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| met with fugitive slaves and learned about the cruelty of slavery, which inspired her to write Uncle Tom's Cabin, selling more than 2 million copies in a decade. |
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| Representative David Wilmot proposed a plan known as the __________ to outlaw slavery in all parts of the Mexican Cession |
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| The debate over the Wilmot Proviso demonstrated the increasing ________ that began to spliet the nation |
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| The _________Party was created by antislavery northerners. |
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| In 1848 California experienced a __________ that rapidly increased its population |
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| Most Californians did not want _____to be legal in their state. |
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| The Kentucky senator ________ provided the basic ideas for the Compromise of 1850. |
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| The senator who spoke for much of the South during the debate over the Compromise of 1850 was ___________ |
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| When President Taylor died in 1850, _________became president. |
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| The ___________ made it a federal crime to assist runaway slaves and allowed fugitive slaves to be arrested even in areas where slavery was illegal. |
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| Many northern _________ opposed slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act. |
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| One of the best known slave narratives was written by _____________, a woman who had been a slave in New York. |
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| The powerful antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by ______________. |
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| politician from New Hampshire who became president in 1852, promising to honor the Compromise of 1850 and enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. |
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| Proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. |
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| A plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories-Kansas and Nebraska. |
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| incident in which abolitionist John Brown and seven other men murdered pro-slavery Kansans. |
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| Senator from Massachusetts who angered congress with his speech, and was beaten uncounsious by Rep Preston Brooks with a walking cane in the Senate chamber. |
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| a relative of the man who was insulted in Charles Sumners speech, and beat Sumner unconscious in the senate chamber with a cane. Southerners applauded, Northerners nicknamed him "Bully Brooks". He was fined $300.00 as a punishment. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Order announced by president Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that freed the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union. |
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| Escaped or captured slaves taken in by the Union army during the Civil war. |
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| 54th Massachusetts Infantry |
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| African American Civil War regiment that helped capture Fort Wagner in South |
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| Northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South in the Civil War. |
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| The leader of the Copperheads group. |
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| Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment. |
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| worked in creating medical hospitals near battlefields, which led to the creation of the American Red Cross. |
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| was appointed a captain in the confederate army because of her value to the southern war effort. |
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| The most important figure in the western theater of war who led a Union army in 1862 |
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| Civil War battle in Tennessee in which the union army gained greater control over the Mississippi River Valley |
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| Union naval officer who captured New Orleans. |
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| confederate general whose forces covered the area surrounding Vicksburg with heavy guns. |
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| Union army's six-week blockade of Vicksburg that led the city to surrender during the civil war. |
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| Civil war battle in Northwestern Arkansas in which the Union army defeated pro-confederate Missourians. |
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| Began the push toward the confederate capital of Richmond. |
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| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
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| General who flung southern troops against the Northern Line. |
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| 1861 First major battle of the Civil war, resulting in a Confederate victory in Virginia; showed that the Civil War would not be won easily. |
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| General who took control over the Union Forces in 1862 |
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| One of the most talented officers who took charge of the confederate army in Virginia |
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| 1862- Series of Civil War battles in which the confederate army successfully forced the Union army to retreat from Southeastern Virginia |
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| Second Battle of Bull Run |
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| 1862.. Civil war battle in which the confederate army defeated another Union advance on Richmond, Virginia. |
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| 1862 Union Victory in Maryland during the Civil war that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in US military history. |
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| Warships heavily armed with iron. |
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| elected president of the US in 1860 as part of the Republican party. Decided to resupply the federal troops at Fort Sumter. |
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| Federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War. |
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| Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri; slave states that lay between the N and the S. and did not join the confederacy. |
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| The first woman to receive a license to practice medicine, and helped pressure president Lincoln to form the US Sanitary Commission. |
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| Union general who developed a plan to defeat the S. by using a naval blockade, and gaining control of the Mississippi River. |
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| Confederate efforts to use the importance of S. cotton to Britain's textile industry to persuade the British to support the confederacy in the Civil war. |
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| incident in which abolitionist John Brown and 21 other men captured a federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion. |
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| vice president who strongly supported the spread of slavery, and ran for president as part of the Democratic party in 1860. |
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| political party formed in 1860 by a group of Northerners and Southerners; platform called for support of the Union, its laws, and the constitution. |
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| selected as the presidential candidate for the constitutional Union Party for the election of 1860 |
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| Act of formally withdrawing from the Union. |
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| proposed a series of constitutional ammendments to satisfy the South called the Crittenden Compromise |
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| Confederate States of America |
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| Nation formed by the southern states on Feb 4th, 1861; also known as the confederacy. |
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| Elected president of the confederate States of America in 1861 |
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| political party formed in 1854 to stop the spread of slavery in the west |
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| Democratic candidate who became president in 1856 |
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| Well-known explorer who was a presidential nominee for the Republican party. |
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| Slave who sued for his freedom in a case that reached Supreme Court in 1856. |
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| Chief Justice who wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott decision. |
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| 1857 Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not US citizens |
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| Illinois lawyer who challenged Stephen Douglas to a series of debates throughout the State. |
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| series of seven debates between Republican Abe Lincoln and Democrat Stephen Douglas during the 1858 US Senate Campaign in IL |
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| Statement made by Stephe Douglas; stated that people could use popular sovereignty to determine if their state or territory should permit slavery. |
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| System used on Southern farms after the civil war in which sharecroppers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small share of the crops. |
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| one of the leaders of the New South movement who wanted to take advantage of the South's resources. |
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| The most famous writer about the South who wrote 'the adventures of Tom Sawyer'. |
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| Popular writer about the South who wrote short stories and novels about the people who lived in the mountains of eastern Tennessee. |
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| one of the most popular Southern writers |
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| African American writer who wrote plantation stories that showed the greed and the cruelty of the slavery system. |
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| A group of students from Fisk University who brought African American music to a national audience. |
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| Republicans from the N who moved to the S. during Reconstruction. |
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| name that S. Democrates gave to S. Republicans during Reconstruction. (means liars and cheats). |
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| Became the first African American in senate in 1870 |
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| Important African American leader who served one term as a US senator and was active in politics for many years. |
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| secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep blacks from obtaining their civil rights. |
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| A US financial crisis; beginning of an economic depression that weakened the Republican party. |
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| Law allowing African Americans to sue private businesses for racial discrimination. |
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| General Amnesty Act of 1872 |
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| Law that repealed the section of the 14thamendment that forbade former confederates from holding public office. |
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| Ohio governor who wanted to end federal support of Reconstruction governments. |
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| Democrates agreed to accept Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops from the south. |
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| Group of Southern Democrats that helped return the Democratic party to political power in the South during Reconstruction and tried to limit the civil rights of African Americans. |
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| a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote. |
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| forced seperation of people of different races. |
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| Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states. |
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| Supreme Court case that established the separate-but-equal doctrine for public facilities. |
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| Disagreed with the court decision of Plessy v Ferguson, saying that segregation is wrong. |
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| Union victory at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the civil war that turned the tide against the confederates; resulted in the loss of more than 50,000 soldiers. |
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| General who reinforced each end of the Union line. |
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| General who commanded the largest division of confederate soldiers charging the center of the Union line |
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| Failed confederate attack led by General George Pickett at the Battle of Gettysburg. |
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| Speech given by Abraham Lincoln in which he praised Union soldiers' bravery and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War. |
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| General who carried out a Union strategy to destroy Southern railroads and industries. |
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| Type of war in which an army destroys its opponents ability to fight by attacking civilian, economic, and military targets. |
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| Period following the civil war during which the US government worked to rebuild the Southern states and reunite the nation |
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| An official pardon issued by the government for an illegal act. |
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| Constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery |
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| Agency established by congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South. |
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| Southerner hostile to president Lincoln's policies who assassinated Lincoln at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865 |
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| Vice president who became president after Lincoln was assassinated. |
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| Laws passed in the Southern states during reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans. |
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| Members of Congress who felt that southern states needed to make enormous social changes before they could be readmitted into the union. |
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| Led the Radical Republicans along with Charles Sumner, and wanted economic justice for both African Americans and poor white southerners. |
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| Law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans |
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| Gave full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians |
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| Laws that put the Southern states under military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the Fourteenth amendment. |
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| Gave African American men the right to vote. |
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