Quest #1, Oct. 6th History

What are the 5 key terms from the Constitution Preamble handout

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Ordain-begin (the beginning of America)

Welfare- wellbeing (looking out for the wellbeing of all Americans)

Domestic tranquility- peace (we need to be peaceful within America

Union- nation (we are creating a new nation, America)

Posterity- generations below us (these rights will exist for all Americans forever)

Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

runaway slaves have to be returned

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (in print and on stage)

It was a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that fictionalized a story about slavery. It angered both sides

Popular Sovereignty

This idea proposed to let the people decide whether territories applying for statehood would be pro-slave or anti-slave. It went against the Missouri Compromise and angered both sides – making sectionalism worse.

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

This allowed popular sovereignty in two territories which should have been free states under the Missouri Compromise.

“Bleeding Kansas”

describes the violence in Kansas when pro and anti-slave supporters clashed over popular sovereignty. It was a preview of the Civil War.

John Brown

He was a abolitionist, a hero to the free states, a terrorist to the slave states. He led a failed slave revolt in Virginia

Election of 1860

A victory for the Republican Abraham Lincoln, it led to an immediate secession by seven Southern states –which was joined by 4 of the other slave holding states.

Fort Sumter

the location of the first Civil War Battle

Confederate States of American

CSA - The states which seceded from the Union.

Confederate

a person belonging to the CSA

Sherman's March to the Sea

From Chattanooga, Union forces drove in to Georgia, capturing Atlanta. Then General Sherman embarked on his march of destruction through Georgia to the coast and then northward through the Carolinas.

Appomattox Court House

it's known for the surrender of the Confederacy, ending the war.

Sherman’s “total war”

The war was for the survival of the country. it was brutal, the confederacy gave up

The Battle of Gettysburg

in 1863 a 3 day battle with over 25000 casualitiesm The south marched up to march noirth they needed to win a batlle. Then north was like chicka bam and the south was like ahhhh.