Civil War
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Chapter 11. Vocabulary, People, Places of the Civil War
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Civil War | Armed conflict between the northern and southern states between 1861 and 1865 |
| Union | United States of America as a national unit, especially during the Civil War; the North andits forces in the Civil War |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin which contributed significantly to antisouthern feeling among northerners before the Civil War |
| George Fitzhugh | Southern author who criticized northern industrialists for exploiting workers in his 1857 book Cannibals All |
| Compromise of 1850 | Agreement reached between northern and southern states in an effort to end dispute over the extension of slavery to the western territory |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Part of the Compromise of 1850 requiring all states to return runaway slaves |
| states' rights | Theory that each state has the right to nullify acts of the federal gov. |
| Nativism | Practice of favoring native-born citizens over immigrants |
| Naturalization | Process resulting in the citizenship of immigrants |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Act of 1854 establishing that the people of a territory should decide whether slavery would be allowed there |
| Slave Power | Name for the South used by opponents in the North before the Civil War |
| Democratic party | Political party descended from Jeffersonian Democrat-Republicans and Jacksonian Democrats |
| American party | Political party organized in the 1854 by nativist to work against Catholics and immigrants; also called "Know Nothings" |
| Stephen Douglas | Illinois senator who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act. |
| Republican party | Political party organized in the 1850's to opposed southern interes; gave rise to today's Republican party |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | Supreme Court case in 1857 that refused to recognize African Americans as citizens and overturned the Missouri Compromise |
| Lecompton Constitution | Proslavery Kansas constitution |
| Panic of 1857 | Economic depression that struck the North particularly hard before the Civil War and helped persuade the South to cut economic and political ties with the North |
| Free Soilers | Settlers in Kansas in the 1850's committed to an antislavery policy |
| John Brown | Abolitionist crusader who massacred proslavery settlers in Kansas before the Civil War, later executed for treason in VA. |
| Charles Sumner | Abolitionist and senator from MA; beaten badly in the Senate by a southern congressman after making an antislavery speech |
| Chief Justice Roger Taney | Chief Justice of teh Supreme Court who wrote an opinion in the 1857 Dred Scott case that declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the US, 1861-1865; known for his effective leadership during the Civil War and his Emancipation Proclamation declaring the end of slavery in Confederate-held territory |
| John Brekinridge | Presidential candidate of the southern wing of the Democratic party in 1860 |
| William Henry Seward | Republican antislavery leader during the 1860s; acquired Alaska in 1867 as secretary of state |
| Constitutional Union party | Political party formed of moderates from the South and the border states in the election of 1860 |
| Secessionist | Southerners who wanted the South to secede from the Union before the Civil War |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America; ordered attack on Fort Sumter, first battle of the Civil War. |
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