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| July 1863. Turning point. Lee's Army is broken and retreats to Virginia Lee now is able to fight a defensive war only |
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| Novermber 1863. Lincoln promises to fight on to make sure dead did not die in vain |
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| Union General who used brute force to wear down Lee. |
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| Lincoln's Vice President, became President. April 1865, lenient reconstruction plan for the South. Protects white South. |
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| Impeached for political rather than legal reasons by radical Republicans. |
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| He avoided being removed from office by one vote. |
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| 1854 by Stephen Douglas. Part of a deal for Northern route transcontinental railroad. Allowed slavery in Louisiana Purchase where it had not been allowed by Missouri Compromise. Angered the North. Leads to “Bleeding Kansas” and Republican party formation. |
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| White Democratic Southern vigilante group terrorizes black voters after Civil War. |
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| South’s best General. Defends Richmond and heads Army of Northern Virginia. |
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| President of the Union during Civil War. Fights to save the Union. Expands Presidential Powers [contrast with weak presidents of 1850s, Buchanan, who did little to stop drift toward war]. North’s victory shows supremacy of Federal Government. |
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| 1858. In Illinois senate race. Lincoln emerges as leader opposed to expansion of slavery. |
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| Union General fired by Lincoln. Too cautious. Runs against Lincoln in 1864 as Democrat on Peace Platform |
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| Military/Radical reconstruction |
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| 1867-1876. Military occupation of South 1867 ordered by Congressional Radical Republicans. Put South into five military districts. Protect the Freedmen [South resisted –KKK]. North gives up on the whole idea in 1877. White South takes back over and Freedmen lose rights gained in Reconstruction. |
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| Missouri slave state; Maine free state. Balance = slave and free state. Plus slavery banned in Louisiana Purchase north of 36°-30°. |
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| Compromise position of Democrats and Douglas [1850’s] in debate over expansion of slavery into the Western Territories. Let people of West decide for themselves the question of slavery. Broke down in Kansas. |
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| Favor punishing the South and full equality. For freedom during reconstruction, including to vote. Came to power after Lincoln’s death. |
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| 14th and 15th Amendment plus African-American participation. Also shows supremacy of Federal Government. Contrast Lincoln’s 10 percent plan, Johnson’s plan and Congressional Radical Republicans’ plan. |
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| Founded 1854 after Kansas-Nebraska Act. Committed to stopping expansion of slavery. During Reconstruction the party in south was blacks, carpetbaggers and scalawags and it controlled Southern state governments. |
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