American Civil War (1861-1865)
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American Civil War
Mr. Lickteig
Fort Riley Middle School, KS
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 popular sovereignty | principle that would allow voters in a particular territory to decide whether they wanted to ban or permit slavery |
| Henry Clay | author of the Compromise of 1850 and the Missouri Compromise |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | divided the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories in which slavery issues would be determined by popular sovereignty |
| Gettysburg | a Union victory in this battle marked the last time Confederate forces attempted a major invasion of the North |
| cost of producing cotton | In the 1800s, the widespread use of the cotton gin in the South decreased this |
| sharecropping | After the Civil war, this new form of economics kept power in the hands of wealthy land owners and hurt African Americans |
| increase in the price of goods | Because of a union blockade of goods to the South, less supply of goods meant an _______________ |
| Dred Scott | Supreme Court ruling that denied that African Americans had rights as citizens |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican who wanted to prevent the spread of slavery |
| secession | act of formally withdrawing from the Union |
| sectionalism | devotion to the interests of one region rather than to those of the entire country is known as |
| Stephen Douglas | this person set out to open Kansas and Nebraska to slavery in exchange for support of a western railroad to start in Chicago |
| Pottawatomie Massacre | this attack by John Brown avenged the attack on the town of Lawrence |
| Bleeding Kansas | the period of conflict in Kansas from 1850 to 1860 between pro and anti slavery forces in Kansas |
| jayhawker | an anti-slavery person living in Kansas |
| bushwhacker | a pro-slavery person living in Missouri |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederate States of America |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | book written by Harriett Beecher Stowe that was widely read and encouraged people to join the abolitionist cause |
| South Carolina | the first state to seceed from the union |
| Missouri Compromise | created in 1820, this created a "line" that banned slavery north in the Louisiana Purchase |
| border states | four slave states of strategic importance to both the North and the South |
| Antietam | the bloodiest single-day battle in American history |
| Ulysses S. Grant | leader of the Western theatre for the North until 1864 |
| Emancipation Proclamation | declared slaves free in those areas controlled by the Confederacy |
| Copperheads | northern Democrats who opposed the war |
| total war | targeting both military and civilian resources to destroy the South's ability to fight, used by Sherman |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | leader of the "March to the Sea" |
| Atlanta | this city was burned to the ground at the beginning of the "March to the Sea" |
| confederate | the side that border states supported during the war |
| Fort Sumter | first battle of the Civil War |
| Gettysburg | turning point of the war |
| siege | the Union used this strategy to defeat the Confederates at Vicksburg |
| Bull Run | first MAJOR conflict of the war, showed the North that the South was not going to be defeated quickly |
| blockade | strategy used by the North to stop supplies from reaching the South |
| ironclads | new navy vessels created during the Civil War |
| Sherman | man who said "War is Hell" |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Place where the South offically surrendered in April 1865 |
| Robert E Lee | leader of the Confederate Army |
| Pickett's Charge | famous attempt by the South to reclaim the advantage during the Battle of Gettysburg, thousands of men are killed trying to charge up Cemetary Ridge |
| 23,000 | the number of casualties during Antietam |
| score | ________ is equal to 20 years |
| Gettysburg Address | famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln to remember those lost at the last major battle of the Civil War |
| Declaration of Independence | during the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln used words from this famous US document |
| minie ball | new bullet created before the Civil War, led to a high number of casualties during the war |
| morse code | form of communication used through telegrams |
| Gattling Gun | new technology that led to the modern machine gun |
| Monitor v. Merrimack | first battle between two iron clads |
| 1861 | year Kansas became a state AND the year the Civil War started |
| 13th amendment | addition to the Constitution that offically banned slavery in the United States |
| 15th amendment | addition to the Constitution that gave men the right to vote in elections REGARDLESS of "race" |
| 14th amendment | addition to the Constitution that provided CITIZENSHIP to African Americans after the Civil War, overruled Dred Scott |
| Vicksburg | Grant won a siege here that gave the Union total control of the Mississippi River and destroyed the last major Confederate army in the West |
| state rights | the original cause of the war; why Confederates seceded |
| Antietam | bloodiest day in American history |
| Antietam | after this battle President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, giving a new cause to the war |
| sub | morpheme meaning "under" |
| chron | morpheme meaning "time" |
| im | morpheme meaning "not or into" |
| casualty | killed, wounded, or captured during a battle |
| rifling | process in which a spiral groove is added to the barrel of a gun to help the bullet spin, increasing power, range and accuracy |
| Richmond | capital of the Confederate States of America |
| Siege of Petersburg | a 9-month long siege between Lee and Grant that ultimately opened the way for Grant's capture of Richmond |
| Wilderness Campaign | strategy used by Grant at the beginning of 1864 to push Lee back into Virginia and to capture Richmond |
| Atlanta | second most important Confederate city because of its supply lines; captured by Sherman before beginning his March |
| fore | morpheme meaning "located in front" |
| resources | the major advantage of the Union over the Confederacy; had more people, supplies, money, etc. |
| Samuel Colt | inventor of the first six shooter; side firearm that allowed six shots before reloading |
| turrett | the name for a rotating cannon used on a naval vessel; the USS Monitor had the first of these used during the war |
| amputation | the medical technique used widely during the Civil War to help save lives; could only be used on limbs |
| disease | three times the number of soldiers died from this as compared to battle wounds |
| Charleston, SC | the city Fort Sumter is located in; start of the war |
| Scott | Union commander at the beginning of the war; was also in charge during the Mexican-American war fifteen years earlier |
| Anaconda Plan | the strategy developed by Gen. Scott at the beginning of the war; idea was to blockade the South using the Union navy |
| Stonewall Jackson | Lee's right hand man; killed by friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville |
| McClellan | Union commander who took over for Scott during the first part of the war; won a major battle at Antietam but was replaced after Lincoln was unhappy with his passive strategy |
| McClellan | ran against Lincoln in the Election of 1864 |
| Burnside | Union commander who took over after McClellan; resigns after a major loss at Fredericksburg; has a bridge named for him at Antietam |
| Hooker | Union commander who took over after Burnside; resigns after a major loss at Chancellorsville |
| Meade | Union commander at Gettysburg; replaced in 1864 by Grant |
| secede | to leave a larger group |
| foreign allies | Lee wanted to invade the north and capture cities because he realized to win the war the Confederates would need ______________ |
| flank | the sides or ends of an army line |
| reconstruction | the period after the Civil War (1865-1877) in which the US tried to rebuild and mend the relationships between the North and the South |
| tele | morpheme meaning "far" |
| spec | morpheme meaning "look or see" |
| bene | morpheme meaning "good" |
| post | morpheme meaning "after" |
| auto | morpheme meaning "self" |
| bio | morpheme meaning "life" |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Frederick Douglas | runaway slave who wrote an autobiography telling how terrible slavery was; became an important abolitionist |
| Republican Party | political group that formed in the mid 1850s with the main goal of stopping the spread of slavery; Lincoln was one of it's first members |
| Election of 1860 | the final breaking point for the Civil War; Abraham Lincoln won because the Democratic Party split into a Northern and Southern canidate |
| abolition | the movement to end slavery |
| inflation | when the price of goods go up; more money and less goods; when supply is less than demand |
| habeas corpus | protection under the Constitution that requires a cause be given when you are put in jail; suspended during the American Civil War by Lincoln |
| re | morpheme meaning "again" |
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