Chapter 10 Vocabulary
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- Abraham Lincoln
- Illinois senator elected president of the U.S. in 1860; his election led to the secession of the southern states
- Camp Moore
- main training camp for LA soldiers; located north of Lake Pontchartrain
- P.G.T. Beauregard
- key Confederate generl; Louisiana native
- Benjamin Butler
- Union general who was placed in control of New Orleans after it fell to Union forces
- Port Hudson
- Confederate fort on the Mississippi River that was the site of the longest siege of the Civil War; fell to Union forces in July 1863
- Bailey's Dam
- a wing dam built by Union forces in 1864 in order to raise the water level in the Red River so that Union gunboats could sail downriver
- Thomas Moore
- governor of Louisiana at the time of secession from the Union
- States Rights
- the principle that the rights and responsibilities of the states should take precedents over the rights and responsibilities of the federal government
- Guerrilla
- is a member of a small military group that harasses the enemy
- Jayhawkers
- labeled draft dodgers by the Confederates; called themselves irregular guerilla
- David Farragut
- Union naval admiral whose fleet captured New Orleans and Baton Rouge
- Confiscation Act
- leglislation passed by the U.S. Congress in July 1862 that enabled Union forces to seize the property of rebels
- Secession
- the withdrawal of a state from the Union
- Missouri Compromise
- the 1820 agreement by congress that MIssouri would enter the union as a slave atate and Maine as a free state formed north of a line even with Missouri's southern border
- Richard Taylor
- son of President Zachary Taylor; confederate general; led Confederate troops at the Battle of Mansfield and Port Hudson
- Michael J. Hahn
- 1st elected governor of occupied Louisiana
- Bounty
- a one- time reward
- Abolitionists
- people who wanted to free the slaves
- Emancipation Proclamation
- 1863 announcement by which President Abraham Lincoln, freed the slaves in the Confederate States
- Nathaniel Banks
- Union general; led Union at Battle of Mansfield and Port Hudson
- Confederate States of America
- the name of the government formed by the southern states that had seceded from the Union in the early 1860s
- Henry Watkins Allen
- Confederate governor of LA elected in 1863
- Campaign
- is a military plan with a specific goal
- Conscription
- a draft; compulsory enrollment for military service
- Compromise of 1850
- a proposal introduced in congress by Henry Clay of Kentucky by which California was admitted as a free state, part of Texas was given to New Mexico, the slave trade was banned in the district of Columbia, the fugitive slave law as strengthened, and the issue of whether slavery would be permitted in New Mexico and Utah was to be determined by popular soveregnity