Terms
The act of forcing someone into military service
What is conscription?
First shots of the Civil War fired here
What is (Fort Sumter) Charleston, SC?
first shots of CW at Fort Sumter
What is April 12, 1861?
He was a popular senator from SC who wrote an essay arguing that states had the option to nullify a law it did not like or secede from the US
Who is John C. Calhoun?
One state wanted to enter the USA as a slave state, leading to the creation of Maine to keep things equal
What is the Missouri Compromise?
to slowly weaken the strength of something (group, family, or organization)
What is attrition?
Confederate States
What is the south?
Bull Run begins
What is July 21, 1861?
Prominent leader in the American abolitionist movement and seized the largest Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in October of 1859
Who is John Brown?
California to enter Union as a free state; rest of the states need to vote on slave or free status and official ban on slave trade
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Military strategy of blocking off trade and access of goods to and from an area
What is blockade?
Union states
What is the north?
The day in which a United States Navy fleet and United States Army expeditionary force captured Port Royal Sound, SC
What is November 7, 1861?
Lead slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
An incident where abolitionist forces killed pro-slavery voters in Kansas
What is Bleeding Kansas?
to come into ownership of something
What is acquisition?
Bull Run was fought here
What is Fairfax County, Virginia?
Emancipation Proclamation is issued by President Lincoln
What is January 1, 1863?
An African-American man sued for his freedom and was denied because he was not considered a US citizen
Who is Dred Scott?
1853-Kansas and Nebraska were to become states and needed to vote on becoming slave or free states
What is the Kansas– Nebraska Act?
To leave an alliance, religious or political organization
What is secede?
within the first year of the Civil War, Union forces occupied this place
What is Port Royal, SC (near Hilton Head Island)?
Abraham Lincoln elected as President of the United States
What is Nov. 1860 (or Nov. 6, 1860)?
One of the first Black regiments to serve in the U.S. Civil War that arrived early June of 1863 in Beaufort, South Carolina
Who is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
Slaves who had escaped up North could be captured and returned down South
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?