Set #12 - Civil War Era

Compromise of 1850

passed the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and instating popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Nebraska and Kansas became states and gave the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. Led to "Bleeding Kansas".

Bleeding Kansas

Conflict over the expansion of slavery into the Kansas Territory during its transition to statehood. Free-Staters battled slavery supporters with violence.

Dred Scott v Sandford

1857 Supreme Court decision that stated slaves were not citizens: slaves were property no matter where they were living and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

Abolitionist John Brown seized the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia with the plan to end slavery killing slave owners and freeing their slaves. He was captured and executed, but became a martyr to the abolitionist cause

Attack on Fort Sumter

Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the Confederacy / South attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War. the Union / North was forced to surrender the fort. this was the beginning of the Civil War.

Border States

States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede.

Ulysses S. Grant

Commander of the North / Union. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the South /Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America.

Robert E. Lee

Confederate General from Virginia who surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.

Battle of Antietam

It was the bloodiest battle day in history 25,000 men were dead. / major Union victory over the South. It removed all hopes in the South of getting foreign aid.

Emancipation Proclamation

Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the Confederate States would be free. Happy day for the slaves. It took the 13th amendment to abolish slavery in the US.

Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

The most violent battle of the American Civil War fought from July 1 - July 3, 1863. Robert E. Lee ordered Gen. Pickett to attack the middle of the Union army. ( Pickett's Charge ) Lee's army lost 28,000 men. The South would never invade the North again.

Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi

Ulysses S. Grants best fought campaign surrounding the city until it ran out of food and supplies. Vicksburg had to surrender - yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union and splitting the South in two. The North now controlled the important Mississippi River.

Gettysburg Address

Famous speech by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, key ideas were liberty, equality, and democratic ideas; purpose of war was to portect those ideas.

Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

The Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9th, 1865, ending the Civil War. Lee realized the south could not fight any longer. He sent Ulysses S. Grant a message saying the Confederacy was ready to surrender. Grant let confed. soldiers return home & gave the starving soldiers supplies.

Lincoln's Assassination

April 14, 1865, he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater while watching "My American Cousin"/ with his death, all hope of the South coming back easily into the Union ended

Anaconda Plan

Union / Northern Civil War plan

blockade the Southern ports, split the Confederacy by gaining control of the Mississippi River, Capture Richmond the Confederate capital.

Confederate States

the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861, Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederacy

Union

Northern States that are against slavery. President Lincoln was the President of the Union during the Civil War.

Fugitive Slave Act

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves and required them to be returned to slaveholders