MOD 9 Pretest - US History Civil War and Pre-War Era

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering key figures, battles, legislation, and concepts from the US History pretest on the Civil War era.

Antietam

The bloodiest single day in US military history.

Millard Fillmore

The 13th President of the United States who supported the Compromise of 1850.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Monitor and Merrimack

Union and Confederate ironclads that fought a historic duel.

Jefferson Davis

The President of the Confederacy.

John Brown

An abolitionist who led a massacre at Pottawatomie and a failed revolt at Harper's Ferry.

Battle of Bull Run

The first official battle of the Civil War.

Habeas corpus

A court order that requires authorities to bring a person held in jail before the court to determine why he/she is being jailed.

Secession

The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.

Robert E. Lee

General of the Confederate army.

Fort Sumter

The site of the first aggression of the Civil War in South Carolina Harbor.

Clara Barton

A Union nurse who cared for the sick and wounded at the front lines.

Underground Railroad

A secret network that helped slaves escape.

Conscription

The draft.

Franklin Pierce

The 14th President of the United States.

Harriet Tubman

The "Moses" of her people and the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.

Vicksburg

A battle along the Mississippi River that cut the Confederacy in half after a siege on the city.

Roger B. Taney

The Supreme Court Chief Justice who announced that slaves were property, not people.

Ulysses S. Grant

A Union General who accepted the surrender of the South and became the 18th President of the US.

Emancipation Proclamation

Declared all slaves living in areas currently under Confederate control free.

Stonewall Jackson

A Confederate General who made a name for himself at the Battle of Bull Run.

Republican Party

A political party that combined anti-slavery Democrats and Free-Soilers.

Thirteenth Amendment

The constitutional amendment stating "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in the US".

Copperheads

Northern Democrats who advocated peace with the South.

Gettysburg

A 3-day battle that is considered the turning point of the war.

Andersonville

The worst Confederate prison where $\frac{1}{3}$ of all prisoners died.

Anaconda Plan

The North's plan to win the war.

James Buchanan

The 15th President of the United States.

George McClellan

The first General in charge of the Union army who would later run against Lincoln in the 1864 election.

Stephen A. Douglas

A Senator from Illinois who helped push through the Compromise of 1850 and debated Lincoln.

Fort Pillow

The site where Confederate troops killed over 200 African American prisoners and some whites.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Commander of the military division of the Mississippi who believed in total war and marched from Georgia to the sea burning everything in his path.

Compromise of 1850

Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.

Abraham Lincoln

The 16th President of the United States.

Fugitive Slave Act

An act stating that runaway slaves who had escaped to the North could be arrested and sent back to the South to be forced into slavery.

Appomattox Court House

The court house where Lee surrendered to Grant.

United States Sanitary Commission

A group dedicated to providing relief for injured soldiers.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

An act that repealed the Missouri Compromise and established popular sovereignty in territories West.

Nativism

The favoring of native-born Americans.

David Farragut

A Union commander who retook New Orleans from the Confederates.

John Wilkes Booth

A 26-year-old actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

Dred Scott

A slave who sued for his freedom after his master moved from Missouri to Illinois and Wisconsin.

Popular sovereignty

The right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery.