Civil War/ Reconstruction Terms for MC Test

John Brown/Harper's Ferry

- led by John Brown
- impractical plan, had no reliable back up
- convicted and hanged after being discovered

Election of 1860

- democratic party split into two
- two nominees from both of the divisions of this party
- Stephen Douglas and John C. Breckinridge
- Lincoln was Republican candidate
- 4th party emerges called the constitutional union party
- John Bell from Tennessee was nominated
- ultimately Lincoln was elected

Sam Houston

governor of Texas

Lincoln's first inaugural

- stated that he wouldn't interfere with slavery where it was already established
- warned that he would not tolerate secession of a state from the Union

The Confederate States of America (first 7 and last 4)

- SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, & TX
- VA, AR, TN, & NC

Jefferson Davis

first and only president of the Confederate States of America

Fort Sumter

- initially under control of the Union
- cut off by Southern control of Charleston harbor
- rather than giving the fort up. Lincoln sends them food supplies and says, either you let this through or you fire and start a war
- shots were fired, and this sparked the war

Lincoln's hold on Maryland

- If MD seceded, DC would be enveloped by the Confederacy
- If Lincoln moved out of DC, that would be an automatic game over for the Union
- MD was kept under control with the use of martial law

-Martial Law

military government, involving the suspension of ordinary law

Suspension of Writs of Habeas Corpus

writ of habeas corpus is a limited remedy whereby a person may attempt to challenge the legal basis for continuing to hold him or her in custody.

Winfield Scott

general-in-chief of union army

2 Theater War

defense planning model used to estimate the size and composition of the US forces ready for combat at any given time

Anaconda Plan

military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War
called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.

Major Robert Anderson

Union commander at the first battle at fort Sumter

Robert E. Lee

commander of Confederate Army

Ulysses S. Grant

commanding general of union army

PGT Beauregard

confederate general officer

England's Cotton Panic

Blockage Runners

Confederate Capital

Capture of New Orleans

Copperheads

Emancipation Proclamation

1863 NY City Draft/ Race Riots

Fort Pillow Massacre

Nathan Bedford Forest (KKK)

Battle of Antietam

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

10% Plan

Wade-Davis Plan/ Ironclad Oath

Radical Republicans

Charles Sumner

Thaddeus Stevens

Alexander Stephens

Lincoln's Second Inaugural

Battle of Gettysburg

Battle of Vicksburg

William Tecumseh Sherman : Sherman's March To Sea

Field Order 15

Oliver Otis Howard

Joseph E Johnston

Battle of Appomattox Court House

Ford's Theater

John Wilkes Booth

Mary Surratt

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

1st Freedmen's Bureau

Sharecroppers and Tenant Farmers

Carpetbaggers/Scalawags

Black Codes

Booker T. Washington

Atlanta Compromise

W.E.B. DuBois

Niagara Movement/"Talented Tenth"

NAACP

Plessy V Ferguson