History: Chapter 10 Vocabulary
History Chapter 10 Vocabulary
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- 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.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Illinois senator elected president of the US in 1860; ho election led to the secession of the southern states.
- Abolitionist
- on who wanted to free the slaves.
- Conscription
- a draft; compulsory enrollment for military service.
- 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.
- Jayhawkers
- labeled as men draft dodgers, but they called themselves irregular guerrillas.
- Confiscation Act
- legislation passed by the US Congress in July 1862 that enabled Union forces to seize the property of rebels.
- Missouri Compromise
- the 1820 agreement Congress that Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and slavery would not be allowed in any states formed north of a line even with Missouri's southern border.
- Michael J. Hahn
- was the first elected governor of occupied Louisiana.
- David Farragut
- Union naval admiral whose fleet captured New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
- Nathaniel Banks
- Union general; led Union at the Battle of Mansfield and Port Hudson.
- Camp Moore
- main training camp for LA soldiers, located north of Lake Pontchartrain.
- States' Rights
- the principle that the rights and responsibilities of the state should take precedence over the rghts and responsibilities of the federal government.
- Secession
- the withdrawl of a state from the Union.
- Confederate States of America
- the name the government formed the southern states when they seceded from the Union in the early 1860s.
- Comprmise of 1850
- legislation passed by Congress 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 state law was strengthened, and the issue of whether slavery would be permitted in New Mexico and Utah would be determined by a vote of the people living in those territories.
- Thomas Moore
- governor of Louisiana at the time of the succession from the Union.
- P.G.T. Beauregard
- key Confederate general; Louisiana native.
- Guerilla
- a member of a small military group that harasses the enemy.
- Emancipation Proclamation
- the 1863 proclamation by which President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in the Confederate states.
- Campaign
- a military plan with a specific goal.
- Richard Taylor
- son of President Zachary Taylor Confederate general; led Confederate troops at the Battle of Mansfield and Port Hudson.
- Bounty
- a one time reward.
- Henry Watkins Allen
- Confederate governor of LA elected in 1863.