Unit 4 Vocab
Manifest Destiny | 19th century belief that Americans had the God given right to spread across the whole continent |
Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South, this included that the Fugitive Slave Act was amended, the slave trade in Washington, D.C. was abolished, California entered the Union as a free state, a territorial government was created in Utah, and an act was passed settling a boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico that also established a territorial government in New Mexico |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | Passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´ |
Popular Sovereignty | People of a territory should themselves decide the issue of slavery |
Fugitive Slave Act | Required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state |
Sectionalism | Loyalty or support of a particular region or section of the nation, rather than the United States as a whole |
Secession | When a state attempts to secede from, or leave, the nation it was once a part of |
Union | Northern half of the country, a group of states that were generally anti-slavery |
Confederacy | Southern half of the country, a group of states trying to separate over the issue of slavery |
Thirteenth Amendment | Freed all slaves and abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States |
Fourteenth Amendment | Granted African Americans citizenship and equal protection under the law |
Fifteenth Amendment | Granted African American men voting rights |
Mexican-American War | Sparked by a dispute over the annexation of Texas by the United States and a long-standing dispute over the southern border |
Dred Scott Decision | Since slaves are property of their masters, a slave is not automatically granted his freedom when his master moves him to a free state or territory |
Emancipation Proclamation | Issued by Lincoln to free all of the slaves in the Confederate states. The slaves in border states loyal to the Union, however, remained enslaved, it only applied to Confederate states in rebellion. |
Appomattox Court House | Where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee To Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865 |
Lincoln Assassination | John Wilkes Booth shot this leader in the head at Ford Theater, just days after the Civil War ended |
Reconstruction | Period after the Civil War during which Northern political leaders created plans for the governance of the South and a procedure for former Southern states to rejoin the Union |
DE, KY, MD, MO, AR, NC, TN, VA | Border States | Slave states that did not secede from the Union when the Confederacy formed in 1860-1861. These states included Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia |
SC | Battle of Fort Sumter | The first battle that marked the beginning of the Civil War |
PA | Battle of Gettysburg | Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North |
KS | Bleeding Kansas | The period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery force |
NC | Wilmington (NC) Coup | By force, a white mob seized the reins of government in the port city and, in so doing, destroyed the local black-owned newspaper office and terrorized the African American community |