Civil War

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Stephen A Douglass: Supports popular sovereignty, wants to be president, also wants transcontinential railroad
Fugitive Slave Law: personal liberty laws, vigilance committees, underground railroad
Maryland events: Riots, Martial law, Lincoln arrest pro-south governor, Suspends habeus corpus, stays in union
George McClellan: afraid to fight, pro-south democrat, Humiliated in battle of 7 days
Antietam: Bloodiest battle in Am. History. War could have been over, Abe fires McClellan
Appomattox Court House: Lee trapped and surrenders to Grant, war over
Peninsula Campaign: McClellan finally moves, the "7 days battle" continuous, McClellan retreats
Lecompton Constitution: recognizes Kansas as a slave state, Pierce supports this and Douglass opposes, kills his presidential chances
4 states that did not secede: 1. Kentucky, 2. Maryland, 3. Misssouri, 4. Delaware
Fire-Eaters: radical southern nationalists who want out of the union
Calhoun and Clay's role in 1850: South's spokesperson
March-to-the-Sea: 300mi/60mi burns atlanta total destruction. William T Sherman
Civil war casualties: 633, 000 die
Ellen and William Craft: ellen dresses as a man, pretends husband is a slave, became free
Election of 1856: Fremont vs Buchanan. GOP discovers that if Illinois, Penn, Indiana vote republican they will win whitehouse w/o getting one vote in the south
Lewis Cass: came up with idea of popular sovereignty
New Orleans Captured: Glasgow is the first naval hero
Frederick Douglass: black abolitionist, former slave, escaped
Gettysburg: Lee decides to take war north, biggest battle of war. Chamberlain charges and saves the war for the Union. Meade doesnt destroy rest of army. War goes on 2 more years!
Dred Scott Decision: slaves not citizens, no rights, free state does NOT equal a free slave, declared missouri compromise unconstitutional
Petersburg: Lee pushed out and is forced to surrender to Grant
Shiloh: Grant vs. Johnston. Worst casualties in Am History to date, huge victory for North
Election of 1860: Issues: stop spreading of slavery, Lincoln becomes president. Republican platform: stop spread of slavery, North platform: popular sovereignth, South platform: national slave code, expansion of slavery
Who is responsible for K-N issue?: Stephen A Douglass
South Carolinas response: cecede in december of 1860
Southern advantages: King Cotton, values, union out of south, home ground, better military
Fredericksburg: 14 assults by union. Disaster, Burnside is incompetent. "Stonewall" gets his name here
The Compromise of 1850: Key Players: Clay, Douglass, Calhoun, Webster. Omnimbus Bill by Clay, Douglass breaks it down into seperate bills. Impact: California admitted as a free state, NM & Utah open to slavery and abolished in DC
Chancellorsville: Lee splits army, Union routed and huge victory for Lee. Jackson shot by own men and dies
Chancellorsville: Confederate victory, splits his army. Jackson sneaks around Union and smashes them. Jackson is shot and killed here.
Shadrach Minkins: bold, masterful escape to Canada
The Wilmont Proviso: Prohibits slavery in Mexican cessesion. US Senate votes for this. Wilmont wanted everything for whites
Northern advantages: people, capital, manufacturing, railroads, navy, argiculture, established government, large scale army
Bloody Kansas: John Brown and son go around murdering pro-slave men, known as Pottawatomi Massacre
Appomattox Court House Surrender: Where Lee is forced to surrender to Grant
Emancipation Proclimation: Frees slaves only liberated 11 CONFEDERATE STATES. Lincoln wants union and liberty/freedom. 13th Amendment
Vigilance Committees in the North: threats, only way north could counteract fugitive slave law
Sojourner Truth: women in underground railroad
Vicksburg: Grant and Tecumseh Sherman take key rebel fort. Confederates starving and finally surrender. Entire Miss River belongs to Union
Anthony Burns: escaped slave, goes back to plantation and gets people to pay $800 for his freedom
1st Manassas: Bull Run, 1st big battle of the war
Monitor vs Virgina: first time steel battleships have been used in combat
Confederate Generals: Robert E Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Johnston, Forrest
Uncle Toms Cabin: exposure of the worst kinds of slavery, promotes slaves to run away
Stowe Family, Harriet Beecher Stowe: most famous preaching family, wrote uncle toms cabin
Union Wants Kentucky For:: Horses, highway to the lower south and rivers
McClellan as Union General: no fighter, slow, slow, never follows up. Doesn't like blood
Re-supply and re-enforce Ft Sumter: 1st battle of civil war, confederates fire on ft sumter
William H Seward: "Higher law" and natural rights, Opposed slavery expansion, Whig senator. "Irrepressible conflict" expansion of slavery between north and south
Underground railroad: popular way for slaves to escape to free states
Andersonville: Confederate POW camp-- horrible
Root cause of war: slavery
Souths reaction to election: Announces it will cecede from Union
The Liberator: prominent abolitionist newspaper
Gettysburg Address: Lincoln speaks for less than 2 minutes, never mentions union but "nation"
Lincolns Assasination: Shot by John Wilkes Booth
Fall of New Orleans: Huge loss for Confederacy, Lose #1 port city
54th Massacusetts: proves blacks were courages, honored with medals. 38,000 die
Fugitive Slave Law: compromise of 1850, no legal rights, community must help slave catchers, bounty system/hunters
William Lloyd Garrison: first and most prominent white abolitionist
South Carolina: first state to secede from union, lower south in february, upper south after ft. sumter
John Brown raid at Harpers Ferry: Attacks US army over a slave rebellion, Robert E Lee captures him. He is tried and convicted.
Overland Campaign: The Wilderness, It wasn't war, it was murder. 7,000 killed in 20 minutes. "Butcher Grant"
Theodore Dwight Weld: abolitionist in the north. Blacks are equal to whites. End slavery now, its morally wrong
1864 Overland Campaign: Grant vs. Lee dance. Attacks at The wilderness, Spotsylvania
Sumner-Brooks Affair: scathing 3-day speech "crime in kansas" Brooks talks bad about south. north gets outrages at south for brooks beating.
Margaret Garner: escaped with child to Kentucky, gets caught and slashes her own childs throat so they will not become slaves again
Douglass role from 1850-56: Famous debates with Lincoln, puts Lincoln on the map for republican nominee
Vicksburg: Union takes control of Mississippi River here***, 20,000 confederate troops have to surrender
Scotts Anaconda Plan: Blockade the south, control of Mississippi River, slice confederacy in two
Kansas-Nebraska territory: create territories, missouri wants to go vote Kansas as a pro-slave state. Crossing state lines to vote. Issue of popular sovereignty
USS Monitor vs Virginia: 1st battle of ironclads, changed naval warfare forever
Fredericksburg: Burnside: poor stupid union general. 14 frontal assults, all failures. Massive casualties. Humiliation of north
Gettysburg: THE battle of the civil war. Chamberlin and men run out of ammo, and decide to charge at the south and pushes them back
Petersburg: Last hurrah for South, Lee tries to break away and Grant chases him
Harriet Tubman: Underground railroad, women are majority of abolitionists in the north
Sherman's March to the Sea: Sherman make civilians pay for supporting Confederacy. Destroy everything and destroy southern morale, a success
Antietam: Bloodiest day in American history: 25,000 killed. Costly victory, but just what Lincoln needed. Burnside bridge
What took the Whigs place: Republican party--northern only, anti-slavery, sectional party
Shiloh: bloody 2 day battle, huge victory for north
Union Generals: McClellan, Grant, Tecumseh, Sherman, Hooker, Burnside
11 Confederate States: Southern border states did NOT secede
1st Manassas: 1st major ground battle, Stonewall Jackson makes heroic stand, Union army humiliated
Elijah Lovejoy: black newspaper publisher, printing press thrown in river and eventually murdered

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