Vocabulary
Emancipation proclamation
Issued in 1863, the Emancipation proclamation stated that "all people held as slaves, are and henceforward shall be free." This marked the freedom of slavery.
What role did Abraham Lincoln play in the Civil War?
- Commander in Chief
New York Draft Riots
Riots in New York primarily by the working class and anti-black Irish, who attacked government and military buildings due to the war draft and fear of African Americans taking their jobs
What was the primary cause of the civil war
slavery
The ( ) was known to have won the Civil War
Union
Copperheads
They were also known as "Peace democrats." They were against the war, and especially, after 1863, against the Emancipation. They wanted Peace.
Clara Barton was a ___ in the Civil War.
Hospital Nurse
In the 1864 election what 2 parties was the National Union party a merge of and what were their core beliefs?
The National Union Party was a merge of Republicans and war democrats who believed in order to keep the union unified, there needed to be war
What was the Compromise of 1850?
California entered the union as a free state, a boundary was created between Texas and the U.S, and the Fugitive Slave Act was amended
What were the 3 main effects after the Civil war?
The abolition of slavery, granting of equal citizenship, and voting rights to former slaves.
Gettysburg address
The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech given by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
Priority of Dorothea Dix to help during the Civil War?
Fight for the importance of Mental health in the medical field, and find humane ways to help them.
Anaconda Plan
A military plan for the union by General Winfield Scott to create a naval blockade around the confederacy to take control of the Mississippi river, and go for the confederate Capital
The missouri compromise
Missouri would be added as a slave state in exchange for Maine to become a free state.
What were the effects of the Civil War on citizens?
Overcrowding, shortages, inflation, and hunger plagued everyone.
Appomattox Courthouse
April of 1865, this was the year and place in which General Robert E. Lee's surrender to Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant.
Who was Stonewall Jackson?
a Confederate general and military officer
Sherman's march to Sea
A military campaign in 1864 where union troops marched through and pillaged Georgia
The Kansas-Nebraska Act decided whether these 2 states were to become slave or free by _____
Popular sovereignty
The Civil War led to freedom for more than ______ million enslaved Americans
Wilderness campaign
The loss of 50,000 troops lost for the north, and 30,000 for the south. This was mainly a movement of the Union forces to further enter Confederate territories.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant and what was his role in the Civil War?
- the 18th
- led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War
Congressional Committee on the conduct of the war
A joint committee formed in late 1861, dominated by republicans who investigated and resented the expansion of presidential power and Lincoln's command of the union army
Mexican-American War
The acquisition of southern territory including Texas from Mexico, further led to the debate around slavery in these new states, despite the Wilmot Proviso which stated that slavery was banned from these states.
4 major events after the Civil War?
Reconstruction.
Freedmen's Bureau.
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Panic of 1873
Compromise of 1877
Jim Crow Laws.