Civil War and Its Cause
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Missouri Compromise and river | Made a line that divided slave states and free states. This made the all slave states and free states separate and that caused slavery to really become an issue. |
| Abolitionism | Being against slavery. And trying to end it, If you are on one side and you vote for that side it can determine, the people that were on the free state side had no slavery and the people that were from the other side that were slave states and were against slavery and then you'd move to the other side, |
| Fugitive Slave Act | A act that says that if any slave runs away anywhere in the US they have to return to there master. A slave in a slave state unlike others, couldn't leave there masters and that controlled there population, which made one 1/2 have more than the other. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Package of five bills, that defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War |
| Wakarusa War | Just another name for Bleeding Kansas, battles between abolitionists from KS and pro-slavery people from Missouri, this really made then separate because all the anti slavery people got together along with the pro slaver people |
| 1861 | The year the Kansas became a state, Kansas was the state where pro and anti slavery battles took place. People really realized what they wanted. |
| Three Fifths Compromise | The agreement by which the number of each state's representatives in Congress would be based on a count of all the free people plus three-fifths of the slaves, all slaves were not counted, therefor the population would be a whole 1/5 higher its not fair that with every 5 slaves = 3 non slaves |
| Abolition Movement | Movement led by Fredrick Douglass and others to end slavery, every other issue could somehow be resolved, but slavery never was, it wasn't ended at this movement but when come spoke out others grew to speak out there mind. |
| Convention of 1787 | Even though in the Constitution the don't use the word slavery but they still focus some what on it. There also is another part that says if people held to service or labor in one state escape them must not be freed by the laws of another state. The slaves are there till they die or escape. |
| Math involved | x without no y, where y is the Civil War. It is profoundly difficult to believe any Civil War would have occurred without slavery, slavery had a main cause and it was slavery, It was slavery because there are so many things that prove it so. |
| Abraham Lincoln | President at the time of the Civil War, It mattered because it was a big deal what side he was on, if he was with or against slavery. He invented the 13th amendment and that was that was to end slavery in parts of the U.S. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free, Slavery was over and that made everything settle like everything that people that was compremisable |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate general and commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. After surrendering at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, he urged reconciliation with the North. seceded |
| Henry Clay | American politician from Kentucky, he was known as the Great Pacificator because of his support of the Missouri Compromise. He developed the Compromise of 1850 to try to avoid civil war. He didn't want people fighting and wanted to avoid the Civil war as much as possiable. |
| Jefferson Davis | An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865, he was an abolitionist and he wanted to end slavery as soon as possiable. |
| John Wilkes Booth | He was a stage actor and helped Abraham Lincoln in Washington D.C. and was strongley against slavery and proposed voting rights to recently emancipated slaves. If they were willing to speak out about slavery and vote against it it would make a huge difference. |
| Clara Barton | She established an agency to obtain and distribute supplies. Was the Founder of the American Red Cross to wounded soldiers. In July 1862, she obtained permission to travel behind the lines, eventually reaching some of the grimmest battlefields of the war and serving during the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond. She delivered aid to soldiers of both the North and South. She could help the wounded, and try and help the people ingured in the civil war.. |
| Stonewall jackson | Confederate General who lead victorys in the First Battle of Bull Run and the Chattle of Chancellorsville. He was accidentally shot by his own troops. While having a strong army and being known as a brick, it wast enough, The battle that was held called Bull Run was a major land battle of the Civil War. BRICK |
| Robert Shaw | HE the colonel in command of all the blacks in 54th mass. regiment, which entered the civil war in 1863. he was killed in a failed attempt to capture fort Wagner, near Charleston NC. He joined the 7th New York Infantry Regiment and marched with it to the defense of Washington, D.C., in April 1861. The unit served only 30 days. In May 1861, joined the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry as second lieutenant. He took part in the battles of Winchester, Cedar Mountain, and Antietam while with the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry. He was also born into an abolitionist family and continued to be one himself. |
| Slavery and civil war | An issue addressed not only the well-being of the slaves but also the question of whether slavery was an anachronistic evil that was incompatible with American values or a profitable economic system protected by the Constitution. All sides agreed slavery exhausted the land and had to find new lands to survive. The strategy of the anti-slavery forces was to stop the expansion and thus put slavery on a path to gradual extinction. They needed to find a compromise like all the other previous issues. Slaves needed to be treated well and not even be called slaves and be able to live a normal live and be able to vote or not. |
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