History Civil War test

Northwest Ordinance

Stated that all the land north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River will be free land.

Missouri Compromise

This balanced the free and slave states by adding Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also stated that land about Missouri’s Southern border will become free land.

Compromise of 1850

This admitted California as a free state, gave New Mexico and Utah the ability to choose to have slaves or not throughout popular sovereignty, and created the fugitive slave law.

Fugitive Salve Law

Stated that runaway slaves in free states must be returned to their owners.

Kansas -Nebraska Act

Allowed states to decide on slavery by popular sovereignty. Also repealed ban on slavery in free land created by the Missouri Compromise.

Popular Soverignty

Having states, or people within states, hold their own votes to make decisions.

Abolitionist

A person who pushed to end slavery. Often held rallies, wrote books/newspaper/pamphlets, and held speeches.

Secession

The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation of body, especially a political state.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin that influenced people’s view on slavery and promoted abolishing slavery.

John Brown

He and his men took over the arsenal in Harper’s Ferry in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.

Harriet Tubman

The “Moses” of her people because she risked her life to lead slaves to freedom.

Fredrick Douglas

A slave who could read and write and escaped to New York to become a leader in the ant’slavery movement by writing an autobiography.

Sojourner Truth

Believed women should have equal rights and wrote a famous speech called “Ain’t I a Woman”

Ulysses s. Grant

Because of his success of fighting in the west, he became the Union General later in the war.

Robert E Lee

Was asked by both the Union and Confederacy to be a General but chose South out of loyalty to his home state of Virginia.

Advantages of the North in the Civil War.

a) larger population b)most of the factories to make supplies c) Most of the railroad d) strong Navy e)more money f) established government

Advantages of the South in the Civil War.

a) excellent military leader b)strong fighting spirit c) knew the land

Antietam

Lee’s plans were discovered by Union troop which led to the war’s bloodiest day and a Confederate loss

Fort Sumter

First shots fired in the Civil War

Shiloh

Grant barely won this battle in Tennessee; this battle showed that this war would produce major casualties on both sides.

Fredericksburg

A huge loss in which General Burnside attempted to take the hills occupied by rebel troops with frontal assaults to overtake a stone wall.

Chancerlorsville

Perhaps Lee’s greatest victory, but Stone wall Jackson was mortally wounded

Bull Run

First major battle of the war; a southern victory among spectators form Washington DC; stonewall earns his nickname.

Vicksburg

The Union controlled the Mississippi River after a 48 day siege

Gettsburg

Turning point in the war in which Lee made the mistake of ordering Pickett’s Charge

Hampton Roads

The first naval battle between ironclad ships, the Merrimack and the Monitor.

Appomattox

The final surrender of General Lee and the Confederate army.

David Farragut

Us Navy admiral who took control of the mouth of the Mississippi using a naval blockade

Edward Everett

Featured speaker oat the Gettysburg Battlefield ceremony

George Pickett

Led the failed Confederate charge which ended the Battle of Gettysburg

William T Sherman

Marched a Union army through GA, SC, and NC, destroying farms, cities, and railroads along the way.

James Longstreet

Advised General Lee to pull out of Gettysburg and fight a defensive battle

George McClellan

Former Union General who later ran for president against Lincol

Wilmer McClean

His home at Manassas was used as a headquarters, and the war ended at his other home in Appomattox

Ulysses S Grant

Used siege tactics to take over Vicksburg.

John Wilkes Booth

Actor who assassinated Lincoln one week after the end of the war.

Jeb stuart

Confederate leader known as the eyes and ears for Lee

Casualty

A person killed, wounded, captured, or missing during the war

flanks

the side of an army’s line in battle-a flanking movement in battle is an attack from the sides.

Infantry

foot soldiers marching and fighting together.

calvary

Soilders fighting on horseback-used to scout positions of enemy and attack supply lines

artillery

crews that fired cannons during the Civil War

emancipation

The formal release of slaves from bondage

total War

a strategy intended to make life difficult for civilians so that they will not support the war

Forage

The search for food by soldiers often at the expense of farmers in a battle area.

blockade

the closing off, using naval forces, of a city or other area to traffic and communication

rations

military term for food