Chapter 1 The Civil War ( Gateway to US History EOC)

Compromise of 1850 (5 Components)

-California as free state -Mexican cession would be popular sovereignty - Abolish slave trade in Washington DC -Fugitive Slave law -Settled border problems between New Mexico and Texas.

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves

Fugitive Slave Act

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

Frederick Douglass

American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer.

Jefferson Davis

An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865

Missouri Compromise

An agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state.

John Browns Raid

An attempt to lead an armed slave revolt by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia.

Abolitionists

Anti-slavery activists who demanded the immediate end of slavery.

Vicksburg

Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River that surrendered to Union forces in 1863 after a siege

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

Republican Party

Emerged as a sectional party in the North and Midwest; sought to keep slavery from expanding (free-soil)

Appomattox

Famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant

Secession

Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation

Emancipation Proclamation

Issued by abraham lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free

Sectionalism

Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole

Fort Sumter

Site of the opening engagement of the Civil War. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina had seceded from the Union, and had demanded that all federal property in the state be surrendered to state authorities.

Dred Scott Decision

Supreme court decision that declared a slave was not a citizen and that slaves are considered property

Gettysburg

Turning point in war, Union victory, most deadly battle