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| Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska "Seward's Folly" |
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| 1. CA admitted as a free state 2. territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico 3. resolution of Texas boundaries 4. federal assumption of Texas debt 5. slave trade abolished in DC 6. new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas |
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| Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) |
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| over Senate seat for Illinois (Douglas victor), Lincoln stated the country could not remain split over the issue of slavery |
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| Douglas was able to reconcile the Dred Scott decision with popular sovereignty; voters would be able to exclude slavery by not allowing laws that treated slaves like property |
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| first shots are fired at Charleston, North Carolina |
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| exempted those who owned or oversaw twenty or more slaves from service in the Confederate Army; "rich man's war but a poor man's fight" |
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| the Union planned a blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/ Gulf of Mexico |
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| won battles in the West and raised northern morale (esp. Shiloh, Fort Henry, and Fort Donelson), made Union commanding General |
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| won battles in the West and raised northern morale (esp. Shiloh, Fort Henry, and Fort Donelson), made Union commanding General |
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| pushed through northern Georgia, captured Atlanta, "marched to the sea" (total war and destruction), proceeded to South Carolina |
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| opposed to slavery and secession, but stayed loyal to Virginia, despite offer for command of Union army |
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| Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson |
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| Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer |
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| Lee's attack of Maryland in hopes that he could take it from the Union, bloodiest day of the war, stalemate, McClellan replaced by Burnside, stalemate, South never so close to victory again |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation), declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states), symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war |
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| Lee invaded Pennsylvania, bloodiest battle of the war, Confederate Pickett's Charge (disaster), Lee forced to retreat (not pursued by Meade), SOuth doomed to never invade North again, Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln (nation over union) |
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| New York City draft riots (1863) |
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| drafting extremely hated by Northerners, sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population, 500 lives lost, many buildings burned |
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| Military Reconstruction Act (1867) |
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| South divided into 5 military districts; states to guarantee full suffrage for blacks; ratify fourteenth amendment |
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