Events Leading to The Civil War
A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man.
Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens and could not file lawsuits.
What is the Dred Scott Case/ Dred Scott Decision?
• Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
• Stated that territories had the right of popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Union army's devastating march through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah, led by General William T. Sherman, intended to demoralize civilians and destroy resources
Sherman's March to The Sea
• Racist group formed in the South after the Civil War
• Used violence and intimidation to terrorize blacks who tried to exercise their rights
What is the KKK/ Ku Klux Klan?
Constitutional amendment that ended slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
Republican Party formed and took an anti-slavery position
• Abraham Lincoln won and became U.S. President
What is the Election of 1860?
the northern states during the Civil War, which remained with the original United States government and opposed slavery
What is the Union?
Largest Confederate prison camp during the Civil War. Had such terrible conditions that over 100 union soldiers died per day
What is Andersonville Prison?
A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Constitutional amendment that granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S
What is the 14th amendment?
A condition in which one human being was owned by another and forced to work
What is slavery?
Georgia congressman who called for the South to remain loyal to the Union and voted against secession
Who is Alexander Stephens?
the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
What is the Confederacy/ The Confederate States of America?
Order issued by President Lincoln that freed the slaves in Confederate states and encouraged them to fight in the war
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Constitutional amendment that granted the right to vote to all male citizens
What is the 15th Amendment?
Belief that the states' interests take precedence over interests of national government
What are States' Rights?
Admitted California as a free state and instituted the Fugitive Slave Act
What is the Compromise of 1850?
•AKA "Anaconda Plan"
•Union blocked all ports/rivers
to try to keep the south from
getting resources
•it worked: shortages, slowed
economy
What is the Union Blockade?
The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union as well as rebuilding the South as a whole
What is the Reconstruction Era/ Reconstruction?
System in which freed slaves rented land and owned the crops they grew
What is Tenant Framing?
The legal theory that states had the right to not follow any law they believed to be unconstitutional
What is Nullification?
• The North would support the Fugitive Slave Act and not ban slavery in new states in order to uphold the Compromise of 1850
• Georgia was credited with secession
What is the Georgia Platform?
Confederate victory; largest battle fought in Georgia; led to the battle of Chattanooga.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?
General Sherman's plan to take Atlanta because it was a railroad hub
• Succeeded and burned much of the city to the ground
What is the Atlanta Campaign?
System where freed slaves agreed to work on white landowners' land in exchange for housing and a share of the crops
What is sharecropping?