Basics
A radical abolitionist who attempted to capture the US Arsenal in Harpers Ferry, VA in order to arm a slave uprising
Who is John Brown
A person who believes that racial differences prove that a certain race is superior to others.
What is a racist?
Proposed the Anaconda Plan
Who is Scott
The name of the North
What is the Union
Suggested the Compromise of 1850
Who is Henry Clay of Kentucky
Soldier's life
What is boredom, discomfort, sickness, fear, and horror?
He was a president on Union's side
Who is Abraham Lincoln
The official name of the South
What is the Confederate States of America
A case that meant that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
To formally join a military force
Enlist
Escaped slavery and became the most important leader of the movement for African American civil rights
Who is Frederick Douglass
A damaged, abandoned Union ship that the Rebels rebuilt with wood and iron
What is the Merrimack
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Border state
What is the state on the border between the North and South, such as Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri
On September 22, 1862 he announced he would issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Did not want to let slaves have access to weapons
What is the Confederate Army
Movement that called for an immediate end to slavery.
What is the Rise of the Abolitionist Movement?
Wanted to be an independent nation and maintained and expanded the Southern way of life, especially the practice of slavery.
What is a Confederacy?
Union army had 187,000 soldiers known as
What is Yankees
The goal of holding as much territory as possible.
What are Confederate strategies