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| Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri; these slave states stayed in the Union and were crucial to Lincoln's political and military strategy. He feared alienating them with emancipation of slaves and adding them to the Confederate cause. | ||
| Mountain virginias had no need for slavery and sided against it. At the beginning of the war there was only "Virginia" on the souths side. Midway through the war, "West Virginia" broke away on the Norths side | ||
| A Union ship stopped the British ship 'Trent' in Cuba and forcibly took 2 southeners. England + South outraged, England considered war | ||
| This Southern ship, manned by Brits, never docked in the South. Captured 60+ Union vessels | ||
| Two Confederate warships being constructed by John Laird in GB that were designed to destroy Union wood ships that were blockading the South | ||
| a court order requiring jailers to explain to a judge why they are holding a prisoner in custody | ||
| Minister to Great Britain during the Civil War, he wanted to keep Britain from entering the war on the side of the South; got them to stop making laird rams | ||
| Emperor of France, he invaded Mexico. He sent in an army and set up a new government under Maximillian. He refused Lincoln's request that France withdraw(went against Monroe Doctrine). After the Civil War, the U.S. sent an army to enforce the request and Napoleon withdrew. | ||
| French viceroy appointed by Napoleon III of France to lead the new government set up in Mexico. After the Civil War, the U.S. invaded and he was executed (a demonstration of the Monroe Doctrine to Europe) | ||
| President of the Confederate States of America, not popular, stubborn, all-business | ||
| 1st female doctor and to recieve a medical degree. school for training nurses | ||
| founder of the red cross | ||
| in the South, she elevated nursing to a professional level; estab. She started a hospital in Virginia | ||
| union commander during the attack on Fort Sumter, teacher of Gen. Beauregard | ||
| NY(1863)-protest of lincolns drafts, working class looting, fighting, lynching, heightened problems between rich and poor (105 killed) | ||
| creates unified national currency, sale of bonds and paper money. (North) | ||
| the Union wanted more money, raised the tariff 5 to 10%, and higher | ||
| Union paper money not backed by gold or silver, created inflation | ||
| 1862 - provided free land in the west as long as the person would settle there and make improvements in five years | ||
| 1st major battle of the civil war, showed each side the necessity of planning. battle finally ended when stonewall jackson stepped in (south win) | ||
| a great general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War fought and won the first Battle of Bull Run, fought 7 days battle with lee | ||
| Union attempt by McClellan to capture the capital Richmond by circumventing the Confederate army by sea. | ||
| two heavily armed ironclad ships, first of their kind (wooden ships ending, steam coming) that fought in the civil war | ||
| Union general for the Civil War. "Tardy George", fired twice by Lincoln. Always preparing, never fighting. Peninsula Campaign | ||
| wanted by Lincoln, a General for the confederates,Fought Peninsular Campaign, 2nd battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville (with Jackson), and Gettysburg. | ||
| Union general best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the East | ||
| replaced McClellan as Union general, defeated at Fredericksburg, VA when tried to swarm troops up a hill; lost 10,000 | ||
| United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee | ||
| union general, replaced hooker, in gettysburg PA he won the battle for the union against Lee | ||
| Confederate general who led Pickett's charge at Gettysburg | ||
| issued by Lincoln in 1862, freed all slaves in succeeded states (excluded boreder states to help them not succeed), gave Union a moral for fighting. But it had a few glitches -did a foreign president have power of the south? north would have to win 1st. - legally, this wasnt constitutional | ||
| a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate army was a major victory for the Union in Pennslyvania, resulted in the loss of 50,000 soldiers | ||
| 2/3 minute speech by lincoln to rally the troops, boost morale and to assert that the men who had died didnt die in vein | ||
| Union military commander who won victories when others had failed and defeated Lee. At first he was an average general, then was demoted, but had redemption at Vicksburg, MS | ||
| Union general whose "march to sea" caused destruction to the south, union general, led march to destroy all supplies and resoures, beginning of total warfare - "conquer" part of Union plan | ||
| 1863 Union army's blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi, that led the city to surrender and took the capital of Jackson, MS during the Civil War. Led by U. S. Grant | ||
| General Sherman led 60000 troops on a march south across Georgia; burned cities and destroyed everything in his path; killed civilians, destroyed crops. Sherman believed in total war. | ||
| a group of northern "Peace Democrats", Lincolns most vicious opponents during the election of 1864. Mainly in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois | ||
| The temporary 1864 coalition of republicans and War Democrats that backed Lincoln's re-election | ||
| developed by Grant, it was a series of battles designed to capture Richmond | ||
| the Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War | ||
| doubled the electorate to 40% of adult males, extending the vote to almost all working men except agricultural workers | ||
| U.S. Senator for Ohio and Governor of Ohio and US Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln and as Chief Justice of the United States, wanted to replace Abe | ||
| An anti-war Democrat (copperhead) who criticized Lincoln. He was arrested and exiled to the South., ex-congressman from Ohio, demanded an end to the war | ||
| assassinated Lincoln | ||
| Federal agency made in 1865. Early form of welfare. The bureau's focus was to provide food, clothing, education, medical care, administer justice, manage property/labor,and establish schools. | ||
| state can reenter the Union when 10% of the voters (in election of 1860) had taken oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation -1863 by Abe Lincoln | ||
| Director of the Freedmen's Bureau, later founded Howard University in DC | ||
| A Southern Congressmen form Tennessee, 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. | ||
| Bill in 1864 which set forth stringent requirements for Confederate states readmission to the Union ((50% of voters to take the allegiance oath and safegaurds to protect the freed blacks)). Vetoed by President Lincoln who favored a more lenient plan | ||
| rules (contracts) designed to tie the freed blacks to their white employers so the south still had a work force, said blacks were bound to work for whites for a certain period of time. blacks were also banned from doing certain things (just like slavery) | ||
| Called for the building of the Transcontinental Railroad to stretch across America connecting California and the rest of America | ||
| bill by congress to give freedmen citizenship, it was vetoed by johnson, but will be ratified as the 14th amendment | ||
| It divided the South into 5 military districts with Union soldiers. It also required that states being re-admitted into the Union had to ratify the 14th Amendment, and that black suffrage must be guaranteed | ||
| citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude | ||
| supreme court case that stated that military courts could not try civilians when civil courts were present...suspended habeas corpus | ||
| leader of radical republicans, passion for helping blacks, behind the 14th amendment | ||
| southern democrats that redeemed the south from reconstruction, oppressed black community | ||
| women's organization formed to help bring about an end to the Civil War and encourage Congress to pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery. | ||
| a web of clubs; blacks were informed of their civic duties, built churches, pushed for republican candidates, sought to solve problems, and recruited a black militia for defense | ||
| a derogatory term for southern whites who supported republican policy throught reconstruction | ||
| a northern who went to the south after the war; some to help the south, for business, or for political advantages (republican) | ||
| a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep african americans from obtaining their civil rights | ||
| laws passed that said people couldnt use force/intimidation to keep others from their rights, directed at the KKK | ||
| required the president to get consent from the Senate before removing anyone previously appointed by him | ||
| many criticized William Seward's purchase of Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars | ||
| first African American senator | ||
| Secretary of War appointed by Lincoln. President Andrew Johnson dismissed him in spite of the Tenure of Office Act, and as a result, Congress wanted Johnson's impeachment | ||
| radical republican and a senator of OH wanted to abolish slavery completely, was the chair of the committee on the conduct of the war | ||
| Secretary of State, expansionist, responsible for the purchase of Alaska |
