Unit 4 Study Guide
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- Wilmot Proviso
- A proposal that said slavery should be ended for good in the west.
- Secession
- Breaking away from a country.
- Compromise of 1850
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1)California will become a free state
2)Utah & New Mexico would decide about the issue of slavery
3)Texas is given 10 million dollars to give up some land
4) The slave trade in D.C. is outlawed
5)Stricter fugitive Slace law for runaway slaves - Popular Sovereignty
- When people decide if they want to have slavery in their territory
- Stephen Douglas
- IHe is an Illinois scholar and caome up with Populat Soverignty
- Millard Filmore
- Came over for General Taylor. He supported the compromise of 1850
- Fugitive Slave Law
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1) Runaway slaves that were caught were not entitled to a jury
2)The runaway slave would not be able to testify to it's master
3)Judges got a bonus if they find the slave guilty/return him back
4)Anyone in the north that helped someone run away would be fined and put in jail - Personal Liberty Laws
- Forbid slaves from being impisoned and the slaves got a jury trial
- Under Ground railroad
- A net work to help slves run away from the south
- Harriet Tubman
- African American Abolitionist who lead the underground railroad
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author of a book called Uncle toms cabin
- Uncle Toms Cabin
- Book about a runaway slave named Tom who was beaten to deat, very popular book during the civil way, might have lead to the civil war
- Kansas Nebraska Act
- Said that Kansas/Nebraska territory can vote if they do or don't want slavery
- John Brown
- Was an abolishonist and goes to Kansas to gather people and tell them that slvaer was wrong, since some people did him wrong he attacked people in their sleep that supported slavery
- Bleeding Kansas
- When john faught people who supported slavery, this even sent Kansas to a civil war which spread to the U.S. senate
- The Sumner Incident
- 30 people and Sumner who was the senator from the south and preston brooks, who is andrew buttler nefew hafe some fights. Preson Brooks beats Sumer over the head with a kane from making fun of his uncle, it shows how things have gotten in the south, this is what lead to the civil war.
- Horace Greely
- He is an abolitionis and he is the founder of the modern day republican party
- Nativism
- The practice that people born in the U.S. are Superior to those like Imigrants
- Know-nothing party
- They would hurt imigrants and tell the police they know nothing.
- Free-Soil Party
- People that want to end slavery in the wetern territory such as van buren, but supported racist laws
- Republican Party
- This is the party that combines the free-soil and the Know-nothing party together
- john C Fremont
- A republican that stongly opposed slavery if he was elected as president the civil war would have started 4 years earlier
- James Buchanan
- He was a democrate and was a moderate in his views and had lots of freinds in the south and got elected as president
- Abraham Licolin
- He was the first real republican president during the civil war (1860) was the political rival to petar douglas
- Dred Scott
- A runaway slave taked with his owner to the north, and dres said that he was free when he was in the north, the courts through other wise
- Roger b Taney
- Chief justice of the suprem court during Dred Scott's trial
- Harpers Ferry
- John brown starts up again and goes to a government arsonal and siezes it, he is then caught and put to death
- Confederate States of America
- The South's Name
- Fort Sumpter
- First battle of the civil war in south carolina
- Anaconda Plan
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Northe Plan for victory
1)The north wanted to block all southern ports
2)the north wanted to tkae control of the mississippi river
3)try to take over the capital (richmond v.a.) - BullRun
- Major battle and victory for the sourth, it was a moral boosted for the south
- Stonewall Jackson
- Southern General
- George Mccellean
- First Chiecf union general- he was removed for idiocracy
- Ulysses S Grant
- Replaced Georce McCellean and later became president
- Shioh
- The single most blodist day in america and took place out side a church
- Antietam
- Another bloody battle this is where George McCellean gets fired and he gets replcaed by Ulyssess S Grant
- David Faragut
- Union General he is able to take conrol of the Mississippi river
- Robert E Lee
- Main confederate General at the end of the war
- Emancipation Proclamation
- A Law that freed all slaves; but didn't free slaves in the south, the had to inlist in the army