Chapter 14 People and Terms

Zachary Taylor

Nominated by the Whigs as Presidential candidate.

John C. Calhoun

Pale, gray-headed figure who shivered and coughed with tuberculosis.

Daniel Webster

Remembered for his Seventh of March Speech.

Franklin Pierce

Defeated Whigs candidate General Winfield Scott.

Harriet Tubman

An escaped slave from Maryland. She also led 300 slaves to the south/freedom

James Buchanan

Bought a healthy respect for the Constitution.

Stephen Douglas

Promoter of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill.

General Robert E. Lee

Confederate General who led the charge at Cemetery Ridge,captured John Brown before the raid occurred; commander of the Confederate forces. Captured Brown and his men before carrying out their plot.

Jefferson Davis

Rose to address the Senate. President of the Confederate States,  Senator from Mississippi who became the first and only president of the Confederate States of America

General Ulysses S. Grant

Captured the river outposts of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. Union commanding general at the end of the Civil War, after the Confederates surrendered he allowed the confederates to keep their animals and rifles. Great general of the Union army; later served as Republican President from 1869 to 1877

General Sherman

Led the devastating March to the Sea.

Clara Barton

An army medical nurse, Helped organize the American Red Cross, was known as the Angel of the Battlefield

John Wilkes Booth

Shot President Lincoln in the head.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Known for his honesty. President when Reconstruction ended in the South

Booker T. Washington

The great American educator.

Richmond, Virginia

Where the Confederates soon moved their capital to.

Fredericksburg

Where Lee and Jackson defeated Burnside's Union troops.

Vicksburg

Served as a supply port on the Mississippi.

Appomattox Court House Virginia

Serves as a meeting place for Lee's surrender.

Fisk/Atlanta University

A school for blacks, founded in 1865.

Tuskegee Institute

The most innovative educational institution for black Americans. School that was founded by Booker T. Washington

Compromise of 1850

Would resolve several disputes between North and South.

Underground Railroad

A series of secret routes leading North.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Dramatized the cruelty of slavery.

Kansas Nebraska Act

Created two new territories.

Civil War

Began when the first shot was fired by the Confederates. It was a war involving brothers fighting eachother

Anaconda Plan

The Union's plan to attack.

Emancipation Proclamation

Declared the freedom of slaves in states which had seceded from the Union.

Gettysburg Address

Given by Lincoln in a three-minute speech.

Reconstruction Era

A difficult time period for America.

13th Amendment

Outlawed slavery.

Freedmen's Bureau

Provided relief for both blacks and whites who lost everything in the war.

14th Amendment

Made freedmen citizens of the United States and attempted to safeguard their civil rights.

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Divided former Confederacy into five military districts and appointed military officers with broad powers to govern each district.

Ku Klux Klan

A secret society notorious for violence and cruelty to freedmen.

15th Amendment

Prohibited states from denying the right to vote because of 'race, color, or previous condition of servitude.'

Compromise of 1877

Ended the reconstruction in the South.