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The Civil War Experience
The Civil War and Reconstruction
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History
10th Grade
11/21/2010

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Term
U.S. would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexico Territory
Definition
Manifest Destiny
Term
The residents of the territory have control over either their state is a free or slave state
Definition
Popular Sovereignty
Term
The ending of legal slavery
Definition
Abolition
Term
Withdrawal formally from a federal union or alliance
Definition
Secede
Term

 

The slogan 54-40 or Fight referred to:

Definition
The boundary dispute between the U.S. and Britain
Term
Why were people from around the world moving to California?
Definition
The Gold Rush
Term
Revivalism and the Unitarian Movement in the Early 19th century was an important feature of what religious reform
Definition
The Second Great Awakening
Term
Emotional religious meetings, that had impassioned preaching
Definition
Revivals
Term
This religious reform movement focused on reason and the appeals to conscience as paths to perfection
Definition
Unitarian
Term

This individual published his own paper, The Liberator......

What was his message?

Definition

William Lloyd Garrison

 

His message was for IMMEDIATE freeing of slaves

Term

This individual was taught to read and write by the wife of one of his owners

 

What two things did he do to spread his experiences and ideas about slavery

Definition

Frederick Douglas

 

1. Lectured

2. Began own antislavery newspaper, The North Star

 

 

Term
This meeting was held by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton for women's rights
Definition
Seneca Falls Convention
Term
Henry Clay created his to settle disagreements between free and slave states
Definition
Compromise of 1850
Term

This woman help slaves escape to freedom in the north using......

 

Identifty the woman and her claim to fame

Definition

Harriet Tubman

 

Underground railroad

Term

This book delivered the message that slavery was not just a political conflict but also a moral struggle.

 

What was the North and South's reaction?

Definition

Uncle Tom's Cabin

North: increase protests against the Fugitive Slave Acts

 

South:felt it was an attack on the South

Term
The law in 1854 established Kansas and Nebraska as territories and allowed the residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery
Definition
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Term
"Bleeding Kansas" refers to:
Definition
The territory were Proslavery and antislavery forces battled
Term
This political party opposed the extension of slavery into the territories
Definition
Free-Soil Party
Term

This political party was formed in 1858. Individuals in this party has differences. However,  they were united about??

 

Name the political party and what united them

Definition

Republican Party

 

Opposition to slavery

Term
List 3 advantages the Union army had:
Definition

·      More manpower

·      Greater food production

·      Railroad

·      Political support—Lincoln

·      Factories

 

Term
List 3 advantages the Confederacy had:
Definition

 

·      $$$ from cotton

·      1st rate generals

·      Home field advantage

·      Motivated soldiers

 

 

Term

This Union army strategy was called:

1.    Block Southern ports

2.    Union riverboats and armies would travel down the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy in 2

3.    Capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia

 

Definition
Anaconda Plan
Term
This was the first battle of the Civil War, where the first shots were fired.
Definition
Fort Sumter
Term
What battle during the Civil War had inexperienced soldiers and brutal warfare?
Definition
Bull Run
Term
This battle made the North and the South realized they needed strategies to win such as: trenches, forts, and scouts.
Definition
Shiloh
Term

Considered the turning point in the war.

Begun over a lack of shoes for soldiers.

Definition
Gettysburg
Term

 

Speech given at the dedication of a national cemetery at the site of Battle of Gettysburg.

How did it change the people view of the U.S.

 

Definition

The Gettysburg Address

 

People thought: not just a collection of individual states, but one SINGLE nation

Term

Definition

Term

Harpers Ferry:


Who

What

Where

Why

Definition

Who: John Brown


What: led a band of 18 men, black and white


Where: to Harpers Ferry


Why: to seize aresenal, distribute to slaves, start a slave uprising

Term
There was a revolution in warfare. How did the Civil War affect it?
Definition

Creation of the rifle and the minie ball(bullet)

 

Ironclade ships

Term
This amendment stated, "Neither slavery nor involuntionary servitute, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States?
Definition
13th
Term

This law was to free all the slaves in all regions that were in rebellion against the Union.

 

It didn't really free anyone.

Definition
Emancipation Proclamation
Term
The time period following the Civil War was named this:
Definition
Reconstruction
Term

The 1868 Amendment that made all persons born in the U.S.-including former slaves-citizens.

 

What were the terms for this amendment?

 

 

Definition

14th

Equal protection under the law

No state could take away life, liberty or property without due process of the law

Term
This 1870 amendment  prohibited the denial of voting rights to people because of thier race or color or because they had previously been a slave.
Definition
15th
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