Civil War Key Terms
What is annex?
Lincoln's order that freed the slaves in the South during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Top Union general during the Civil War
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
He killed President Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Judging people unfairly without really knowning them.
What is prejudice?
The law that allowed residents of these states to vote on whether or not to allow slaves in their areas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Top Confederate General during the Civil War.
Who is Robert E Lee?
Lincoln was shot here.
What is Ford's Theatre?
A Union ship sunk by a Confederate submarine.
What is the USS Housatonic?
The belief that the U.S. was meant to expand from coast to coast across North America.
What is manifest destiny?
Union capital.
What is Washington D.C.?
He led the March on the Sea during the Civil War.
Who is General William Sherman?
States that abutted slave states during the Civil War.
What are broder states?
A law that demanded the return of run away slave, even from free states.
What is the Fugative Slave Act?
Southern state that seceded from the Union formed this.
What is the Confederacy?
Captial during the Confederacy.
What is Richmond, VA?
The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
A deal made to calm tensions that allowed the state fo California to enter the Union as a free state. It also made a strict law that all slaves, even if freed needed to be returned to their owners.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
A group a people who wanted to end slavery
What are abolitionists (or the Abolitionist Movement)?
Under this, Missouri joined that Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Location of surrender during the Civil War.
What is Appomatox Court House?
He succeeded Abraham Lincoln after his assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Warships that were strenthened with a strong metal during the Civil War.
What are ironclads?