American Pageant Chapter 20 Flashcards

5621386502	William Seward	was Lincoln's enemy; Lincoln put him in his cabinet to make friends with him; became secretary of state	0
5621386503	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
5621386504	Winfield Scott	first union commander, forced to retire because he was so old; created anaconda plan	2
5621386505	submissionists	nickname to white southerners who wanted to side with the north	3
5621386506	Richmond, VA	ends up to be the captial of the Confederacy	4
5621386507	Butternut Region	southern part of the north, sympathetic to the south	5
5621386508	Billy Yank	northern soldier	6
5621386509	Johnny Reb	southern soldier	7
5621386510	Sen. John Crittenden	from KY; replaced Henry Clay; his sons split between north and south and he came up with the compromise to bring back Missouri Compromise at 36-30 line, Lincoln did not like this idea	8
5621386511	King Wheat and King Corn	Europe began to need food instead of cotton; the North had what they needed	9
5621386512	Trent Affair	1861; a Union warship stopped a British mailship and demanded for 2 confederate diplomats bound for Europe; caused an uproar and almost caused the British to side with the south	10
5621386513	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	11
5621386514	Laird Rams	British iron ships that were going to be sold to the Confederacy, they ended up not selling them because the north threatened to bring Britain into the war	12
5621386515	Maximillian	Frenchman who took over Mexico in 1863, ignored Monroe Doctrine, Mexico overthrew him	13
5621386516	Gov. Joseph Brown	Opposed Jefferson Davis, put Georgia first	14
5621386517	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	15
5621386518	$300 men	rich men who didn't want to fight could pay money to have these poorer men fight for them	16
5621386519	Morrill Act	highest tariff in history, no southerners were in congress to keep it lower	17
5621386520	Greenbacks	money that's not worth i, $450 million was not backed up and this unvalueable paper money was floating around America	18
5621386521	Jay Cooke	sold government war bonds	19
5621386522	shoddy millionaires	people in the north who made cheap war materials for more money	20
5621386523	Elizabeth Blackwell	1st female physician who started the U.S. Sanitary commission.	21
5621386524	Clara Barton	most famous nurse from Civil War; will alter start the Red Cross	22
5621386525	Dorothea Dix	head nurse of all nurses in Union Army	23
5621386526	Sally Tompkins	most famous southern nurse, became a Captain in Confederate Army	24
5621386527	Charles Francis Adams	Union ambassador in England; kept England from helping the South	25