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| 591185769 | 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. | |
| 591185770 | Lecompton Constitution | Supported the existence of slavery in the proposed state and protected rights of slaveholders. It was rejected by Kansas, making Kansas an eventual free state. | |
| 591185771 | 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. | |
| 591185772 | Dred Scott v. Standford | landmark supreme court decision which confirmed that status of slaves as property rather than citizens, and therefore the case was thrown out by Chief Justice Roger B Taney | |
| 591185773 | Panic of 1857 | Economic downturn caused by overspeculation of western lands, railroads, gold in California, grain. Mostly affected northerners, who called for higher tariffs and free homesteads | |
| 591185774 | Tariff of 1857 | Lowered duties on imports in response to a high Treasury surplus and pressure from Southern farmers. | |
| 591185775 | Lincoln-Douglas Debates | 1858 Senate Debate, Lincoln forced Douglas to debate issue of slavery, Douglas supported pop-sovereignty, Lincoln asserted that slavery should not spread to territories, Lincoln emerged as strong Republican candidate | |
| 591185776 | Freeport Question | Idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it | |
| 591185777 | Freeport Doctrine | Idea authored by Stephen Douglas that claimed slavery could only exist when popular sovereignty said so | |
| 591185778 | Harpers Ferry/John Brown | Harpers Ferry contained a US Armament. John Brown, a radical abolitionist attacked the baracks only to fail in getting guns for enslvaved southerners. Later hung on Dec 2 | |
| 591185779 | Constitutional Union Party | a former political party in the United States | |
| 591185780 | Confederate States of America | the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 | |
| 591185781 | Crittenden Amendments/ John Crittenden | These amendements to the Constitution were designed to appease the south by prohibiting slavery north of 36, 30' but allowed protection south of this line. It also allowed future states to enter with or without slavery regardless of their position north or south. | |
| 591185782 | Henry Ward Beecher | United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887) | |
| 591185783 | James Buchanan | 15th President of the United States (1791-1868) | |
| 591185784 | Charles Sumner | Radical Republican against the slave power who insults Andrew Butler and subsequently gets caned by Preston Brooks | |
| 591185785 | Roger B. Taney | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when Dred Scott decision was made | |
| 591185786 | Stephen A. Douglas | Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebreaska Act and the Freeport Doctrine | |
| 591185787 | Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States | |
| 591185788 | John C. Breckinridge | The South's pro-slavery Democratic candidate in the election of 1860. Completed the split of the Democratic Party by being nominated. | |
| 591185789 | Fort Sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War | |
| 591185790 | Border States | in the civil war the states between the north and the south: delaware, mayland, kentucky, and missouri | |
| 591185791 | 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 | |
| 591185792 | Writ of Habeas Corpus | a writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge | |
| 591185793 | Morill Tariff Act | superseding the low tariff of 1857 duties increased some 5-10% raise revenue and produce protection for manufacturing | |
| 591185794 | Greenbacks | Name for Union paper money not backed by gold or silver. Value would fluctuate depending on status of the war (plural) | |
| 591185795 | National Banking System | (AL) , Authorized by Congress in 1863 to establish a standard bank currency. Banks that joined the system could buy bonds and issue paper money. First significant step toward a national bank. (North) | |
| 591185796 | Homestead Act | Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years. The settler would only have to pay a registration fee of $25. | |
| 591185797 | Jefferson Davis | an American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 | |
| 591185798 | Elizabeth Blackwell | First woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S. | |
| 591185799 | Clara Barton | Nurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross | |
| 591185800 | Sally Tompkins | Confederate nurse who ran a hospital in Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War | |
| 591185801 | Battle of Bull Run | either of two battles during the American Civil War (1861 and 1862) | |
| 591185802 | 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 | |
| 591185803 | Emancipation Proclamation | Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free | |
| 591185804 | Battle of Gettysburg | a battle of the American Civil War (1863) | |
| 591185805 | Gettysburg Address | a 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg | |
| 591185806 | Sherman's March | General Sherman lead a force from Chattanooga, Tennessee to South Carolina destroying everything the Confederates could use to survive. He set fire to South Carolina's capital, Columbia. | |
| 591185807 | Appomattox Courthouse | the Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War | |
| 591185808 | Reform Bill of 1867 | Granted suffrage to all male British citizens, dramatically expanding the electorate. The success of the American democratic experiment, reinforced by the Union victory in the Civil War, was used as one of the arguments in favor of the Bill. | |
| 591185809 | "Stonewall" Jackson | general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863) | |
| 591185810 | George McClellan | union general, 1st commander, overly cautious, fired by Lincoln | |
| 591185811 | Robert E. Lee | Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force | |
| 591185812 | Joseph Hooker | United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879) | |
| 591185813 | 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. | |
| 591185814 | William Techumseh Sherman | captured Atlanta and burned down GA. Main purpose was to destroy supplies destined for the Confederate Army and to weaken the morale of the men at the front by waging war on their homes | |
| 591185815 | John Wilkes Booth | United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865) | |
| 591185816 | 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 | |
| 591185817 | "10 percent" Reconstruction Plan | Made by Abraham Lincoln that once a certain amount of people recognized the Union and slavery, the state would be allowed back into the Union | |
| 591185818 | Wade Davis Bill | an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office for anyone who had fought for the Confederacy...Lincoln refused to sign this bill thinking it was too harsh. | |
| 591185819 | Black Codes | Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves | |
| 591185820 | Civil Rights Bill | A bill passed by Congress in March 1866 as a measure against the Black Codes to reinforce black rights to citizenship. It was vetoed by Johnson and was later passed as the 14th Amendment. | |
| 591185821 | 14th Amendment | Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws | |
| 591185822 | Reconstruction Act | It divided the South into 5 military districts, each commanded by a union general and policed by Union soldiers. It also required that states wishing to be re-admitted into the Union had to ratify the 14th Amendment, and that states' constitutions had to allow former adult male slaves to vote. | |
| 591185823 | 15th Amendment | citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude | |
| 591185824 | Scalawags | southern whites who supported republican policy throught reconstruction | |
| 591185825 | Carpetbaggers | northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican leaders during reconstruction | |
| 591185826 | Ku Klux Klan | founded in the 1860s in the south; meant to control newly freed slaves through threats and violence; other targets: Catholics, Jews, immigrants and others thought to be un-American | |
| 591185827 | Force Acts | the government banned the use of terror, force or bribery to prevent someone from voting because of their race. Other laws banned the KKK entirely and brought forth military help to enforce these laws. | |
| 591185828 | 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 | |
| 591185829 | Seward's Follly | U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7 million. Despite the bargain price of roughly two cents an acre, the Alaskan purchase was ridiculed in Congress and in the press as "Seward's folly," "Seward's icebox," and President Andrew Johnson's "polar bear garden." | |
| 591185830 | Andrew Johnson | 17th President of the United States | |
| 591185831 | Thaddeus Stevens | Man behind the 14th Amendment, which ends slavery. Stevens and President Johnson were absolutely opposed to each other. Known as a Radical Republican | |
| 591185832 | William Seward | Secretary of State who was responsible for purchasing Alaskan Territory from Russia. By purchasing Alaska, he expanded the territory of the country at a reasonable price. |
