American Pageant Chapter 20 Flashcards

5809458166	William Seward	was Lincoln's enemy; Lincoln put him in his cabinet to make friends with him; became secretary of state	0
5809458167	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
5809458168	Winfield Scott	first union commander, forced to retire because he was so old; created anaconda plan	2
5809458169	submissionists	nickname to white southerners who wanted to side with the north	3
5809458170	Richmond, VA	ends up to be the captial of the Confederacy	4
5809458171	Butternut Region	southern part of the north, sympathetic to the south	5
5809458172	Billy Yank	northern soldier	6
5809458173	Johnny Reb	southern soldier	7
5809458174	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
5809458175	King Wheat and King Corn	Europe began to need food instead of cotton; the North had what they needed	9
5809458176	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
5809458177	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
5809458178	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
5809458180	Gov. Joseph Brown	Opposed Jefferson Davis, put Georgia first	13
5809458181	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	14
5809458182	$300 men	rich men who didn't want to fight could pay money to have these poorer men fight for them	15
5809458183	Morrill Act	highest tariff in history, no southerners were in congress to keep it lower	16
5809458184	Greenbacks	money that's not worth i, $450 million was not backed up and this unvalueable paper money was floating around America	17
5809458185	Jay Cooke	sold government war bonds	18
5809458186	shoddy millionaires	people in the north who made cheap war materials for more money	19
5809458187	Elizabeth Blackwell	1st female physician who started the U.S. Sanitary commission.	20
5809458188	Clara Barton	most famous nurse from Civil War; will alter start the Red Cross	21
5809458189	Dorothea Dix	head nurse of all nurses in Union Army	22
5809458190	Sally Tompkins	most famous southern nurse, became a Captain in Confederate Army	23
5809458191	Charles Francis Adams	Union ambassador in England; kept England from helping the South	24