American Pageant Chapter 20 Flashcards

5624785854	William Seward	was Lincoln's enemy; Lincoln put him in his cabinet to make friends with him; became secretary of state	0
5624785855	Fort Sumter	1st shots of the war on April 12, 1861; the north surrendered after 36 hours; no one was killed in this battle	1
5624785857	submissionists	nickname to white southerners who wanted to side with the north	2
5624785858	Richmond, VA	ends up to be the captial of the Confederacy	3
5624785859	Butternut Region	southern part of the north, sympathetic to the south	4
5624785860	Billy Yank	northern soldier	5
5624785861	Johnny Reb	southern soldier	6
5624785863	King Wheat and King Corn	Europe began to need food instead of cotton; the North had what they needed	7
5624785865	Alabama	ship that escaped to the Portuguese Azores and got weapons; Britain was the chief naval base for the Condeferacy, sunk northern ships, made in Britain, and sunk in France	8
5624785867	Maximillian	Frenchman who took over Mexico in 1863, ignored Monroe Doctrine, Mexico overthrew him	9
5624785869	Limits on civil liberties	1. Proclaimed blockade of southern ports. 2. Ordered to increase army 3. Spent unapproved money on weapons 4. Suspended Habeus Corpus 5. Supervised Voting 6. Suspended newspaper	10
5624785870	$300 men	rich men who didn't want to fight could pay money to have these poorer men fight for them	11
5624785871	Morrill Act	highest tariff in history, no southerners were in congress to keep it lower	12
5624785872	Greenbacks	money that's not worth i, $450 million was not backed up and this unvalueable paper money was floating around America	13
5624785874	shoddy millionaires	people in the north who made cheap war materials for more money	14
5624785875	Elizabeth Blackwell	1st female physician who started the U.S. Sanitary commission.	15
5624785876	Clara Barton	most famous nurse from Civil War; will alter start the Red Cross	16
5624785877	Dorothea Dix	head nurse of all nurses in Union Army	17
5624785878	Sally Tompkins	most famous southern nurse, became a Captain in Confederate Army	18
5624785879	Charles Francis Adams	Union ambassador in England; kept England from helping the South	19
5684163297	arbitration	The settling of disputes (especially labor disputes) between two parties by an impartial third party, whose decision the contending parties agree to accept.	20
5684175752	profiteer	make or seek to make an excessive or unfair profit, especially illegally or in a black market.	21
5684181897	Edwin Stanton	secretary of war during civil war who was lenient to the south during reconstruction	22
5684186864	Jefferson Davis	President of the Confederate States of America	23
5684186865	Trent Affair	U.S. navy illegally captured two Confederate diplomats from a British ship; the UK protested	24
5684191398	Draft Riots	class tensions between rich and poor because only some could dodge the draft	25
5684194484	Napoleon III	emperor of France 1852-1870 with sympathies to the South	26
5684199043	Coal oil Johnnies	pioneers pushing westward for oil plutocracy	27
5684199044	wage slaves	people working for unfair compensation in factories	28
5684203261	cotton famine	shortage of cotton due to Union blockade	29
5684206065	invasions of canada	Confederates attempted to set up base in Canada due to strategic location???	30
5684211194	writ of habeas corpus	Lincoln suspended this, allowing holding of people in jail without trial, increased size of military, and shut down newspapers in the capital that were critical of the government	31
5684217225	bounty brokers/jumpers	people who would persuade men to enlist by giving a sum of money/ attempted to make profit off of conscription	32
5684217226	59ers	gold seekers in western kansas and southwestern nebraska	33
5684221580	Homestead Act of 1862	Offered large tracts of land at low prices to encourage westward settlement	34
5684226602	government girls	civil war version of rosie the riveter	35
5684226603	plutocracy	government of the wealthy	36