Civil War vocabulary

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  1. 4. Slave law a law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with a legal way to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states
  2. 6. Lincoln was president of the United States during the Civil War (16TH president), wrote the Gettysburg Address
  3. 8. another term for the Confederate States of America, the South
  4. 10. Brown an American abolitionist, Brown and his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry
  5. 13. society in which people lived in small villages and on farms and plantations, the South was mainly an agricultural society
  6. 14. crop a crop such as tobacco and cotton that is grown to be sold rather than by use by the farmer
  7. 16. of 1850 California entered the Union as a free state. Southwest territories would decide about slavery.
  8. 18. Compromise of 1820 Missouri entered the Union as a slave state; Maine entered the Union as a free slate.
  9. 20. Barton a Civil War nurse, created the American Red Cross
  10. 21. Tom’s Cabin a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was an abolitionist, which described slavery in the South
  11. 22. S. Grant was general of the Union army that defeated Lee
  12. 24. Smalls an African American sailor and later a Union naval captain, was highly honored for his feats of bravery and heroism. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives after the war.
  13. 25. Scott’s Decision United States Supreme Court case, a slave who had resided in a free state or territory , where slavery was prohibited, was not thereby entitled to his freedom
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  1. 1. a group of states united into one political body, the United States, and refers to the North during the Civil War
  2. 2. Davis was president of the Confederate States of America
  3. 3. “Stonewall” Jackson was a skilled Confederate general from Virginia
  4. 5. tax on foreign goods
  5. 7. an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
  6. 9. Proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves: within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free”
  7. 11. Address said that the Civil War was to preserve a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” Given by Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg PA
  8. 12. and Nebraska Act People in each state would decide the slavery issue (“popular sovereignty”)
  9. 15. Douglass was a former enslaved African American who promoted African American involvement in the Civil War
  10. 17. sovereignty the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives, who are the source of all political power
  11. 19. rights political powers reserved for the states governments rather than the federal governments. State power should be stronger than national.
  12. 22. society in which people held jobs in cities, the North was mainly an urban society
  13. 23. the withdrawal of states from the United States