| Term | Definition |
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| Dred Scott vs. Sanford | An 1856 supreme court case in which Dred Scott was born in Virginia, sold to a master in Missouri, then the family moves to Illinois, then Wisconsin, then move back to Missouri, Emerson dies, and is left for the wife but then is given to brother, who moves to NY without the slaves |
| Stephen Douglas | Douglass says Republican party is not nation. It only represents the views of certain states - proof - there are no elected Republicans from the south --> SECTIONAL - Douglass believed in popular sovereignty |
| Secession (1st and 2nd waves) | 1st wave: South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisianan, Texas - they were geographically forced to succeed because it would be very hard for a single state to be physically separated from the union.. SECOND WAVE: Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee - they are afraid that the Union is going to loose |
| Fort Sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War |
| The Border States | they were Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware - all of these states were not agricultural - they had no desire for slavery |
| Robert E. Lee | U.S. and Confederate military leader. In 1859 he led U.S. troops against the slave insurrection attempted by John Brown at Harpers Ferry. In 1861 he was offered command of a new army being formed to force the seceded Southern states back into the Union. Though opposed to secession, he refused. After his home state of Virginia seceded, he became commander of Virginia's forces in the American Civil War and adviser to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. In 1864 – 65 he conducted defensive campaigns against Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant that caused heavy Union casualties. Lee ended his retreat behind fortifications built at Petersburg and Richmond (see Petersburg Campaign). By April 1865 dwindling forces and supplies forced Lee, now general of all Confederate armies, to surrender at Appomattox Court House. |
| Emancipation Proclimation | a document issued by president Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that freed the slaves from confederacy - confederacy did not have to listen but this put a different view on the war --> now it was about slavery 1. slaves could join war 2. north had a better reason for fighting now |
| Gettysburg Battle | Union leaders defeated General lee. A turning point battle during the Civil War |
| Gettysburg Address | Speech given by Abraham Lincoln which captured the spirit of liberty and morality ideally held by citizens of a democracy. That ideal was threatened by the Civil War. |
| The First Inaugural Address of Abe Lincon | In this he stated that the war was about preserving the union |
| The Second Inaugural Address | here, he is saying that the USA can come back together and to forgive + start over (not forget) |
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