Ch 16 and 17 Civil War
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25 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Uncle Tom's Cabin | a novel published by harriet beecher stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral |
| Fugitive Slave Act | law passed in 1850 that required all citizens to aid in the capture of runaway slaves |
| Stephen Douglas | Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebreaska Act and the Freeport Doctrine |
| Secede | to leave or withdraw |
| Civil War | War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865 |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. |
| Dred Scott vs Sanford | Supreme court case supporting that slaves were considered property |
| guerrilla warfare | fighting carried on through hit-and-run raids |
| arsenal | a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms |
| Treason | actions against one's country |
| Fort Sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War |
| Abraham Lincoln | U.S. statesmen, 16th president. Led Union to victory in Civil War. Assassinated. Sometimes called "Honest Abe". |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Martial Law | rule by the army instead of the elected government |
| Robert E Lee | General of the Confederates (South) |
| Border State | the states between the North and the South that were divided over whether to stay in the Union or join the Confederacy |
| Battle of Bull Run | First battle and it proved war would be bloody and soldiers needed training |
| Virginia and Monitor | When the South captured a warship, and covered it with iron, they named it the Virginia. The North countered with an ironclad of their own, the Monitor. |
| Battle of Antietam | Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties |
| Battle of Fredericksburg | TURNING POINT a Union victory; single bloodiest day of the war |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union military commander who won victories when others had failed and defeated Lee |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free |
| 54th Massachusetts Regiment | a famous African unit in the Union army; led an attack on Ft. Wagner near Charleston, SC |
| Gettysburg Address | a 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg |
| Appomattox Court House | famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant |
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