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| the debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were held during the 1858 campaign for a US Senate seat from Illinois. The debates were held at 7 sites throughout Illinois, one in each of the 7 Congressional Districts, Both opposed slavery and wanted to maintain the union, Neither wanted to see slavery in territories and thought it was not economically beneficial Lincoln's Opposition rested on free labor, Lincoln loses debates and election but the debates help him to win the Presidential Election. |
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| Abolitionist ; Believed that slavery can only be fixed through slavery |
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| an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
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| Where the radical abolitionist John Brown led a small group of 22 men in a raid on the Arsenal located in Harper's Ferry |
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| bringing Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party to power and setting the stage for the Civil War. The immediate result of Lincoln's victory were declarations of secession by South Carolina and other states, which were rejected as illegal by the then-current President, James Buchanan and President-elect Abraham Lincoln. |
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| passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slaveholding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. This was one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a 'slave power conspiracy'. |
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| (December 18, 1860) was an unsuccessful proposal by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden to resolve the U.S. secession crisis of 1860–1861 by addressing the concerns that led the states in the Deep South of the United States to contemplate secession. |
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| (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. |
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| Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, was named after General Thomas Sumter. However, the fort is best known as the site where the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter. |
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| (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a career United States Army officer, an engineer, and the most celebrated general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. |
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| The 1862 act that allowed the Union government to print paper money not directly tied to specie (gold and silver) reserves |
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| those who broke with the majority of the Democratic Party and supported the military policies of President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War of 1861–1865. |
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| a vocal group of Democrats in the North who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates |
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| a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority, but it is most often used in the specific sense of government policies that require citizens to serve in their armed forces. |
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| Every citizen has a right to a fair trail in front of a jury before being convicted of a crime |
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| was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. |
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| the military strategy of wearing down the enemy by continual losses in personnel and material |
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| proposed in 1861 by Union General Winfield Scott to win the American Civil War with minimal loss of life, enveloping the Confederate States of America by blockade at sea and control of the Mississippi River. The name "Anaconda" is taken from the way an anaconda constricts its prey. |
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| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
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| (January 21, 1824[1] – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most revered Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee.[2] He is most famous for his audacious Valley Campaign of 1862 and as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. His own troops accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville and he died of complications from an amputated arm and pneumonia several days later. |
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| a ship designed to provide vital supplies to countries or areas blockaded by enemy forces during wartime. |
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| July 5, 1801 – August 14, 1870) was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. |
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| born Hiram Ulysses Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885), was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869–1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. The first one, issued on September 22, 1862, declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America as did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863, and the second one, issued on January 1, 1863, enumerated the specific states where it applied. The Emancipation Proclamation was widely attacked at the time as freeing only the slaves over which the Union had no power, but in practice, it committed the Union to ending slavery, which was controversial in the North. It was not a law passed by Congress, but a presidential order |
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| most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States history. It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. |
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| February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891), born Tecumseh Sherman, was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), having received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy and criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States. Military historian Basil Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general". |
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| The amendment to the United States Constitution that outlawed slavery |
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| famous as the site of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse and containing the house of Wilmer McLean, where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War. The site is now commemorated as Appomattox Court House |
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| the attempt from 1863 to 1877 to resolve the issues of the American Civil War, after the Confederacy was defeated and slavery ended. |
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| Presidential Reconstruction |
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| 1863-66 was controlled by Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, with the goal of quickly reuniting the country. It can be said to have begun with the Emancipation Proclamation. |
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| Congressional Reconstruction |
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| 1866-1873 emphasizing civil rights and voting rights for the freedmen. A Republican coalition of freedmen, carpetbaggers and scalawags came to control in most of the southern states. In the Redemption, 1873-77, white Southern Democrats (calling themselves "Redeemers") defeated the Republicans and took control of each southern state, marking the end of Reconstruction. |
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| The first Reconstruction Act placed ten Confederate states under military control, grouping them into five military districts:First Military District: Virginia, under General John Schofield; Second Military District: The Carolinas, under General Daniel Sickles; Third Military District: Georgia, Alabama and Florida, under General John Pope ; Fourth Military District: Arkansas and Mississippi, under General Edward Ord; Fifth Military District: Texas and Louisiana, under Generals Philip Sheridan and Winfield Scott Hancock |
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| a legislative maneuver in American federal lawmaking, and is a process of indirect rejection. The U.S. Constitution requires the President to sign or veto any legislation placed on his desk within ten days (not including Sundays) while the United States Congress is in session. |
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| a federal agency that was formed during Reconstruction to aid distressed refugees of the American Civil War. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill was initiated by Abraham Lincoln and intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It became primarily an agency to help the Freedmen (free slaves) in the South |
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| were laws passed on the state and local level mainly in the rural Southern states in the United States to restrict the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans. |
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| contains the "due process", "equal protection" and "citizenship" clauses. |
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| A vote to remove an elected official from office. (Ex. Bill Clinton) |
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| which guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race |
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| a severe nationwide economic depression in the United States that lasted until 1877. It was precipitated by the bankruptcy of the Philadelphia banking firm Jay Cooke and Company on September 18, 1873 along with the meltdown on May 9, 1873, of the Vienna Stock Exchange in Austria. It was one of a series of economic crises in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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| Farmers that owned their own tools |
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| an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election. Through it, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops that were propping up Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. Consequently, the incumbent President, Republican Ulysses Grant, removed the soldiers from Florida before Hayes as his successor removed the remaining troops in South Carolina and Louisiana. As soon as the troops left, many Republicans also left (or became Democrats) and the "Redeemer" Democrats took control |
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| worked in collaboration with convict lease to re-employ former slaves in jobs similar to those performed prior to their emancipation. To avoid the worst situation of becoming convict laborers, farmers were forced to enter into extremely disadvantageous sharecrop agreements that generally left them permanently in debt to the landowner. |
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| Proposed a bill that would expand the Indian territory. |
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| Slavery would be determined by vote of the people |
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| Withdrawing from the Union as a State. |
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| Mississippi Louisia Florida Texas Alabama Virginia Georgia Tennessee Arkansas |
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| Delaware Kentucky Maryland Missouri |
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| Network of people that helped freed slaves escape to the North Lead by Harriett Tubman who made 19 trips from the North to the South helping out the slaves. |
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| Because of what it said about slavery, it increases sectional tension prior to the Civil War. After reading this, the Northerners believed slave owners were cruel and inhuman. |
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| Trans-Continental Railroad |
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| Mass transit that connected North Central Railroad with the Central Railroad |
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| On January 1854,Stephen Douglas proposed to organize Kansas Northbound Territory repealing the decision of the amount of slavery states versus the amount of free states (Compromise of 1820) which opens the possibility of slavery. - Divides and Destroys the Whig Party
- Growth of Republican Party (Opposed Slavery)
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| First battleground between those favoring extension of slavery, and those opposing the extension of slavery. People illegally cross borderline trying to make territory safe. |
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| As a result of Bleeding Kansas, this constitution caused it to be illegal to help slaves talk out about slavery. May 1856, President Buchanan accepts Pro-Slavery State Constitution to accept Kansas as a Slave State. Until the population of Kansas equals 90,000 or more, it can not become unionized. |
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| Senator of Massachusetts and attacks pro slavery acts in Congress |
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| Believed that Slavery would deny free labor - Hate Slavery
- Believe in free competition and Free Labor
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| a slave in Missouri, but when moved to a free state, Wisconsin, was free. When he returned to Missouri, he was convicted as a slave. So he sued for his freedom, and allegedly lost. 1) He was not considered a citizen in Missouri, and thus he had no right to sue 2) Congress could not say that “property” was free. 3)Unconstitutional |
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| Born in Kentucky in 1809 § Age 25, wins seat in Illinois legislature § 4 Years In Legislature Opposed slavery on moral grounds. |
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