Chapter 15 US
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Secede After South Carolina | Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas |
| Secede after Fort Sumter Crisis | Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas |
| Slave States Staying With Union | Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri |
| Montgomery, Alabama | Original capitol of the Confederate States of America |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the CSA |
| Richmond, VA | Second capitol of the CSA |
| Buchanan | The president who condemned southern secession but claimed he could do nothing to stop it |
| Fort Sumter | A union fort in the bay of Charleston, SC that is seized by the South |
| Robert Anderson | The Union Commander at Fort Sumter |
| Robert E. Lee | Famously capable Confederate general |
| George McLellan | An overly cautious union general, goes on to run against Lincoln for president |
| Winfield Scott | The Union general behind the "Anaconda Plan" |
| Anaconda Plan | A plan to suffocate that South by blockading the Atlantic coast and severing the south off along the Mississippi |
| Merrimack | The South's first Ironclad ship, stolen from the Union at the outset of the war |
| Monitor | The ship commissioned by the union to counter the South's first ironclad ship |
| Emancipation Proclamation | A symbolically important, but practically useless act that freed slaves in the southern states, excluded border states that stayed with the union |
| Gettysburg | The site of a solid victory for the union over General Lee's forces |
| Meade | The general who beat Lee at Gettysburg |
| Vicksburg | The union gained control of this and took the entire Mississippi river |
| Ulysses S. Grant | The top commander in Lincoln's army for most of the war, the North's most capable general |
| Antietam | McClellan's trooped pulled out a narrow victory here, halting Lee's advances |
| William Sherman | The Union General who leads a "march to the sea" destroying everything in his path |
| March to the Sea | Sherman's campaign to slice through the south destroying everything in his path |
| Appotamox Courthouse | The final battle of the war, Lee surrenders here to Grant and ends the war four years after it begins |
| John Wilkes Booth | Shoots Lincoln dead at Ford's Theatre five days after Lee surrenders |
| Andrew Johnson | Takes the office of the presidency after Lincoln is killed |
| Greenbacks | The first form of paper money not redeemable for gold |
| Copperheads | Northern Democrats who wanted an end to the war |
| Clara Barton | Founded the American Red Cross on the back of her experience in the battle field |
| Ex Parte Merryman | Supreme Court ruling that didn't allow union generals to suspend habeas corpus rights for confederate prisoners, was ignored |
| Ex Parte Milligan | After the war ended, the supreme court ruled that Lincoln's use of military courts in areas where civilian courts were still functioning was unconstitutional |
| Vallandigham Incident | An outspoken copperhead and opponent of Lincoln was jailed, then sent to Tennessee, he eventually escaped to Canada |
| Homestead Act | Gave 160 acres to any farmer who promised to farm the land for at least five years |
| Morril Land Grant Act | Gave land to states, proportional to their representation in congress, for the establishment of technical colleges |
| Pacific Railway Act | Provided federal subsidies, in land and money, for a transcontinental railroad |
| Charles Sumner | A radical republican leading the fight against slavery from the senate |
| Thaddeus Stevens | Led the fight against slavery from the house |
| Miscegenation | reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) |
| The Trent Affair | A union ship stopped a British ship and arrested two envoys, including John Slidell, headed for the Confederacy |
| New York City Draft Riot | A vehement response to the draft instituted by Lincoln, turned quickly into a class and race based riot |
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