Civil War
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- Union commander; Lincoln accused him of being too cautious.
- George McClellan
- Led fatal charge at Gettysburg.
- George Pickett
- Nickname "Little Giant", debated Lincoln in 1858, coined phrase "popular sovereignty"; The voters in a territory would decide if slave or free.
- Stephen Douglas.
- Nov-Dec 1864, Atlanta captured Sept, 1864, and destructive march 4o miles wide and 400 miles long.
- Sherman's March to the Sea
- secured Republican nomination for President in 1860.
- Abraham Lincoln
- 16th president, led country brilliantly during war, fired many generals, assassinated a week after war, perhaps our greatest president.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Commander of Union after Lincoln fired many, Lee surrenders to him at Appomattox, and becomes 18th president.
- Ulysses S. Grant
- political group who wants to keep slavery out of the west.
- Republican Party
- April 1865, Richmond falls April 2, 1865, Lee surrenders, and war is over.
- Appomattox Courthouse/surrender
- Union's first comander, fired by Lincoln, rehired, then fired again, "Lil Mac," "Young Napolean," and lost election of 1864.
- George McClellan
- Lincoln issues it and it frees all slaves.
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Greatest officer in U.S. prior to war, his brilliance gives Confederacy a chance, and the "Marble Man."
- Robert E. Lee
- The "Little Giant" ; debates with Lincoln
- Stephen Douglas
- abolitionist who led raid on Harper's Ferry.
- John Brown
- Captures Atlanta, and marches to the Sea.
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- enables California to enter Union.
- Compromise of 1850
- California enters as a free state, popular sovereignty will decide Mexican cessian territories, Texas gives up its claim to Upper Rio Grande, the south gets a stronger fugitive slave law
- Compromise of 1850
- Changed the way people thought about slavery. Sold over two million copies.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Lincoln gives a speech to honor the dead "Four score and seven years ago. "
- Gettysburg Address
- This decision made the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
- Dred Scott
- "I'd rather be right than be president." Career politician from Kentucky, responsible for Compromise of 1850, Nickname Great Compromiser, and lost 3 pres. elections 1824, 1832, and 1844.
- Henry Clay
- Led a slave revolt at Harper's Ferry, Va. He is captured and executed, and becomes a martyr for the abolitionists.
- John Brown
- [Jewish name mean Peace.] April 1862, Union: Grant, Confederate: Johnston, fought to gain control of Tennessee River, over 24,000 casualties.
- Shiloh
- "The Angel of the Battlefield," and the founder of the American Red Cross.
- Clara Barton
- founder of Red Cross.
- Clara Barton
- July 1863, Union:Meade, Confederate: Lee, Confederacy looking for shoes, 51,000 casualties, Picketts charge, turning point of the war, and Confederacy no longer on offensive.
- Gettysburg
- Led fatal charge at Gettysburg.
- George Pickett
- Kept in prison for two years following the war.
- Jefferson Davis
- July 1863, Union: Grant, Confederate: Pemberton, Is an impenetrable fort on the Mississippi, Grant starves the town into surrendering, and Confederacy split in two.
- Vicksburg
- September 1862, Union: McClellan, Confederate: Lee, Turns out to be a draw, 10,000 die in one day, and bloodiest day in American history
- Antietam
- August 1862, Union: Pope, Confederate: Lee, Longstreet, Jackson, Union losed again, casualties are five times higher than 1st Bull Run, Pope fired, and Mac rehired.
- 2nd Bull Run/Manassas
- A slave who sued for his freedom because he lived in free territory. Court declares he is property, therefore, he doesn't have the right to sue.
- Dred Scott Decision
- author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The south slavery necessary for economic wealth, and north viewed slavery as wrong.
- slavery
- Stephen Douglas wants to be president. Let voters decide in Kansas and Nebraska decide if they want slavery. "Popular Sovereignty."
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- The idea that states can ignore laws they don't like. The north thinks the national government should have more power.
- States' Rights
- July 1861, Union called in Manassas, both sides inexperienced, picinics. "Stonewall." Union embarassed, called "The Greatest Skedadle," war will last longer than anyone thought, and 5,000 casualties.
- 1st Bull Run/Manassas
- President of the Confederacy, known for being cold, inhumane, and held captive for 2 years after the war.
- Jefferson Davis
- Texan, killed at Shiloh.
- Albert Sydney Johnston
- Virginian, who graduated 2nd in his class at West Point.
- Robert E. Lee
- At Shiloh, Vicksburg, Atlanta, 2nd in command at wars end, and a "Sherman's necktie."
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- First battle of Civil War.
- Ft. Sumter
- The north has industry, large cities, and supported abolition of slavery. The south agriculture, Decomcratic Party, and they feel they need slavery to survive.
- Sectionalism
- U.S. always tries to keep a balance of free states and slave states. Missour enters as a slave state. Main as a free. After this, Missouri's southern border is the boundary between slave and free.
- Missouri Compromise
- Lee surrenders to him at Appomattox.
- Ulysses S. Grant