Battle of Gettysburg
Union victory that destroyed one third of Lee’ confederate forces and marked last major confederate attempt to invade the north
Fugitive Slave Act
a law that required all citizens to aid in apprehending runaway slaves a part of the Compromise of 1850
Ulysses S. Grant
Union general who later became the 18th president of United states from 1869-1877
Inflation
rising prices
Abraham Lincoln
16th president of the United states
Dred Scott v. Sandford
1857 Supreme Court case that determined a slave does not have protetzenship so does not have protection Under the the constitution
Emancipation Proclamation
a decree dy president Lincoln that declared free all enslaves and territories still in rebellion against the Union on January 1, 1863
John C. Breckinridge
served as the 14th vice president of the united states under president James Buchanan
Jefferson Davis
southern planer who became president of the confederate states
Robert E. Lee
virginia military of the confederate forces during the civil war
Confederate States of America
the government of 11 southern stater and fought against the Union in the Civil war
Fort Sumter
a federal fort located in charleston south carolina where the first first shots of the civil war were fired
What is Compromise of 1850?
a political agreement that admitted California to the Union as a free state while permitting popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugi
Total war
a military strategy in an army attacks not only civilian resources that support them
Thirteenth Amendment
he 1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United states
Habeas corpus
a constitutional guarantee that on one can be in prison without charges being filed
Anaconda Plan
a northern civil war strategy to starve the south by blockading ports and controlling the mississippi river
Popular sovereignty
principle in which the people are the only source government power
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American writer and abolitionist best known for her antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s cabin
Crittenden Compromise
was an 1861 proposed constitutional amendment that attempted to prevent secession of the southern states by allowing slavry in all territories south of the Miss
Kansas-Nebraska Act
a 1854 law that divided the Nebraska Territory into kansas and giving each territory the right to decide whether or not all allow slavery
Draft
law required all able bodied men between the ages of 20 and 45 to serve in the military
William T. Sherman
led his march to the sea 250 miles east to capture savannah georgia as a Union general
John Brown
American abolitionist best known for leading a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers ferry in 1859