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| 5592756149 | Abraham Lincoln | 16th President | 0 | |
| 5592756150 | The Impending Crisis of the South | A book written by Hinton Helper. Helper hated both slavery and blacks and used this book to try to prove that non-slave owning whites were the ones who suffered the most from slavery. The non-aristocrat from N.C. had to go to the North to find a publisher that would publish his book. | 1 | |
| 5592756151 | Freeport Doctrine | Idea authored by Stephen Douglas that claimed slavery could only exist when popular sovereignty said so | 2 | |
| 5592756152 | Crittenden Compromise | 1860 - attempt to prevent Civil War by Senator Crittenden - offered a Constitutional amendment recognizing slavery in the territories south of the 36º30' line, noninterference by Congress with existing slavery, and compensation to the owners of fugitive slaves - defeated by Republicans | 3 | |
| 5592756153 | slave states | Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, , Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Georgia, Delaware | 4 | |
| 5592756154 | free states | Maine, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania | 5 | |
| 5592756155 | Battle of Chancellorsville | The Union was defeated again with the Confederacy being led by Robert E. Lee. General Thomas Stonewall Jackson was accidentally wounded here by one of his own men. | 6 | |
| 5592756156 | Monitor vs. Virginia | After several hours of fighting neither ironclad was damaged but the monitor forced the Virginia to withdraw. | 7 | |
| 5592756157 | Battle of Seven Days | McClellan would not make a move. Jackson's army launched a June 25 attack on McClellan's right flank in what became known as (blank). Lee drove McClellan away from Richmond to a new fortified base on the James River | 8 | |
| 5592756158 | Battle of Bull Run | July 21, 1861. Va. (outside of D.C.) People watched battle. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson: Confederate general, held his ground and stood in battle like a "stone wall." Union retreated. Confederate victory. Showed that both sides needed training and war would be long and bloody | 9 | |
| 5592756159 | Battle of Shiloh | Confederate forces suprised union troops & drove them across the Tennesee river; union got backup and won the battle but it was one of the most bloody battles in the civil war | 10 | |
| 5592756160 | 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. | 11 | |
| 5592756161 | Battle of Antietam | Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties | 12 | |
| 5592756162 | Battle of Vicksburg | 1863, Union gains control of Mississippi, confederacy split in two, Grant takes lead of Union armies, total war begins | 13 | |
| 5592756163 | Battle of Chattanooga | in the American Civil War (1863) the Union armies of Hooker, Thomas, and Sherman under the command of Ulysses S. Grant won a decisive victory over the Confederate Army under Braxton Bragg | 14 | |
| 5592756164 | Battle of Chickamauga | 1863 Confederate army defeated the Union forces and forced the Union Army back into TN; Confederates did not follow up on Union retreat and they lost Chattanooga to the Union a short time later. | 15 | |
| 5592756165 | Fort Henry | Fort Henry was Grant's first military success. The fort lay on the Tennessee River. | 16 | |
| 5592756166 | Fort Donelson | Grant captured this fort on the Cumberland and because of the capture, all of Kentucky and most of western Tennessee came under Union control. | 17 | |
| 5592756167 | Ulysses S. Grant | ..., an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. | 18 | |
| 5592756168 | Robert E. Lee | A General for the confederates, fought many battles. One of his main plans towards the end of the civil war was to wait for a new president to come into office to make peace with. Fought Peninsular Campaign, 2nd battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville (with Jackson), and Gettysburg. | 19 | |
| 5592756169 | Stonewall Jackson | Brave commander of the Confederate Army that led troops at Bull Run. He died in the confusion at the Battle of Chancellorsville. | 20 | |
| 5592756170 | William T. Sherman | an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy and criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States | 21 | |
| 5592756171 | Philip Sheridan | Union General that marched through the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, destroying farms, livestock, crops, and anything else in his path. | 22 | |
| 5592756172 | Fort Sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War | 23 | |
| 5592756173 | "modern war" | a total war in which involved nations direct all resources to producing material for waging war | 24 | |
| 5592756174 | Anaconda Plan | ..., Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south | 25 | |
| 5592756175 | Stephen Douglas | Senator from Illinois, author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Freeport Doctrine, argues in favor of popular sovereignty | 26 | |
| 5592756176 | popular sovereingty | Idea that government governs only with the consent of the people - the people have the power | 27 | |
| 5592756177 | Whig party | An American political party formed in the 1830s to oppose President Andrew Jackson and the Democrats, stood for protective tariffs, national banking, and federal aid for internal improvements | 28 | |
| 5592756178 | Emancipation Proclamation | A law issued by Lincoln freeing the slaves in the confederate states. This made the civil war a moral war to end slavery. | 29 | |
| 5592756179 | Confederate economy | was hurth by not having enough resources, north blocked water ports | 30 | |
| 5592756180 | Union economy | Sold government bonds, standard paper money ("greenbacks"), economic boom (manufacturing + agriculture) | 31 | |
| 5592756181 | Clement Vallandigham | An anti-war Democrat who criticized Lincoln as a dictator, called him "King Abraham". He was arrested and exiled to the South., Prominent Copperhead who was an ex-congressman from Ohio, demanded an end to the war, and was banished to the Confederacy | 32 | |
| 5592756182 | Amendments 13, 14, 15 | amendments to the U.S. Constitution which corrected slavery; 13th abolished slavery; 14th gave the former slaves citizenship; 15th gave the former slaves voting rights | 33 | |
| 5592756183 | Andersonville | ..., The most infamous prison in the south. There was no shelter. There was a huge population, and there were food shortages, overcrowding, and disease that killed about 100 men a day during the summer months. | 34 | |
| 5592756184 | George McClellan | A general for northern command of the Army of the Potomac in 1861; nicknamed "Tardy George" because of his failure to move troops to Richmond; lost battle vs. General Lee near the Chesapeake Bay; Lincoln fired him twice. | 35 | |
| 5592756185 | Copperheads | A group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War | 36 | |
| 5592756186 | Morrill Act | (1862) Federal law that gave land to western states to build agricultural and engineering colleges. | 37 | |
| 5592756187 | Trent Affair | In 1861 the Confederacy sent emissaries James Mason to Britain and John Slidell to France to lobby for recognition. A Union ship captured both men and took them to Boston as prisonners. The British were angry and Lincoln ordered their release | 38 | |
| 5592756188 | black codes | Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War | 39 | |
| 5592756189 | Freedmen's Bureau | 1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs | 40 | |
| 5592756190 | Tenure of Office Act | 1866 - enacted by radical congress - forbade president from removing civil officers without senatorial consent - was to prevent Johnson from removing a radical republican from his cabinet | 41 | |
| 5592756191 | carpetbaggers | A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states; | 42 | |
| 5592756192 | Compromise of 1877 | ..., Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river | 43 | |
| 5592756193 | Scalawags | A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners | 44 | |
| 5592756194 | Andrew Johnson | 17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president. | 45 | |
| 5592756195 | John Wilkes Booth | ..., was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. | 46 | |
| 5592756196 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | ..., Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict. | 47 | |
| 5592756197 | Charles Sumner | A leader of the Radical republicans along with Thaddeus Stevens. He was from Massachusetts and was in the senate. His two main goals were breaking the power of wealthy planters and ensuring that freedmen could vote | 48 | |
| 5592756198 | John C. Calhoun | (1830s-40s) Leader of the Fugitive Slave Law, which forced the cooperation of Northern states in returning escaped slaves to the south. He also argued on the floor of the senate that slavery was needed in the south. He argued on the grounds that society is supposed to have an upper ruling class that enjoys the profit of a working lower class. | 49 | |
| 5592756199 | Bleeding Kansas | A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent. | 50 | |
| 5592756200 | Radical Republicans | After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South. | 51 | |
| 5592756201 | impeachment | An action by the House of Representatives to accuse the president, vice president, or other civil officers of the United States of committing "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." | 52 |
