Civil War Battles
A battle where Confederate soldiers stopped the Union from taking the capital city, Tallahassee.
What is the Battle of Natural Bridge?
A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Florida's primary resources during the Civil War
What is Salt & Cattle?
The northern states during the American Civil War - lead by Abraham Lincoln
What is the Union?
The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861- lead by Jefferson Davis; Florida was the third state to secede and join this group.
What is the Confederacy?
One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War; over 500 Union soldiers were "unaccounted for" after this Confederate victory.
What is the Battle of Olustee?
1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. This repeals the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The withdrawal of eleven Southern states from the Union; Florida was the third state to do this.
What is Secession?
Fought from 1861-1865, this was an American war between the North (Union) and the South (Confederacy)
What is the Civil War?
This is known as the "most deadly day in all of American history." About 23,000 men died, were wounded, or went missing. After this battle, Lincoln warned of Emancipation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Lincoln's 1863 declaration freeing slaves in the Confederacy and allowing African Americans to enlist in the US military.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Gave black men the right to vote;
What is the 15th Amendment?
A Union fort in Pensacola, Florida. Several times Confederates tried to capture the fort. Union forces fought them off. The Union held this fort and controlled Pensacola for the entire war.
What is Fort Pickens?
Newspaper started in Jacksonville while under control of the North (The Union).
What is the Florida Union/Florida Times Union?
Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This freed all slaves; it legally forbade slavery in all of the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
A moving speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War; Lasts from 1865-1877
What is Reconstruction?
One of only 2 southern capitals that did not fall during the Civil War. (50 Bonus Points if you can name the other southern capital that didn't fall.)
What is Tallahassee? (Bonus: Austin, Texas)
(Not necessarily a "battle") From Nov-Dec 1864, this Union General traveled across Georgia, following a "scorched earth" policy - destroying everything in a 60-mile swath.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
Congress passed this Amendment, declaring that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws in response to Southern racist policies.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Part of the Compromise of 1850, this law required that northern states forcibly returned escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves; added after Florida was forced to approve the Thirteenth Amendment.
What are Black Codes?
1867 - Congress removed southern governments and installed military rule; states had to write a new constitution, ratify 14th Amendment, and allow African Americans to vote in order to be readmitted to the Union
What is Radical Reconstruction?