Civil War and Reconstruction Mid-Term Study Set

ID Terms

War

an evolution of conflicts, limitations of our political system, failure of legitmacy

Dred Scott Decision in 1858

ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be U.S. citizens and that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in U.S. territories

Northwest Ordinances

1787 law that banned slavery in the Northwest Territory, creating the first major free‑vs‑slave regional divide in the United States. This divide became a direct precursor to the sectional tensions that exploded into the Civil War.

Louisiana Purchase

Missouri Compromise

Mexican Cession

Compromise of 1850

American Colonization Society

Appeal to the colored citizens of the world

The gag rule

Necessary Evil

Tallmadge Amendments

Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

Land Speculation

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Popular Sovereignty

Peoria Speech

Bleeding Kansas

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Harper’s Ferry

Crittenden Compromise

Constitution of the Confederate States of America

Fort Sumter

Teams of rivals

Border States

Montgomery Meigs

Anaconda Plan

Citizen soldiers

Fort Donelson

Shiloh

Good Death

Contrabands of War

Confiscation Acts

Peninsular Campaign

Antietam

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Election of 1862

54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

Port Hudson

Fredericksburg/Marye’s Heights

Conscription Act

A rich man’s war, and a poor man’s fight

The Union Blockade

Richmond Bread Riots

Battle of Chancellorsville

Limited War

Hard War

Total War

Detached Units

Partisans

Bushwackers

Partisan Ranger Act

General Order No. 11

Centralia

Fort Pillow

Prisoner Exchange