Manifest Destiny - Civil War

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  1. 2. Established in 1854 because of the Kansas - Nebraska Act - pushed an Anti - Slavery Platform.
  2. 4. A judicial principle that states that a person cannot be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime. Lincoln suspened this right during the war and his critics claimed it was a blatant abuse of presidential power.
  3. 9. John Browns attempt to raid a federal arsenal to equip slaves to rebel against their owners. Caught and hung for treason.
  4. 10. General of the Confederate Army. Would be a Major Advantage for the Confederate Army.
  5. 11. 1st Battle of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina in April of 1861.
  6. 13. 1. Admission of California as a free state. 2. Created Utah and New Mexico as territories who would decide the answer to the question of slavery by popular sovereignty. 3. Settled a Texas - New Mexico boundary dispute in the former's favor. 4. Ended Slave Trade in DC. 5. Stricter fugitive slave law.
  7. 14. Law enacted by Congress in 1793 and 1850 these laws provided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners.
  8. 15. Lee surrenders to Grant ending the Civil War on April 9, 1865.
  9. 22. Believed Kansas - Nebraska Act and that Popular Sovereignty would solve the issues of slavery.
  10. 28. Law passed after the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation that allowed African Americans to fight in the war.
  11. 30. Single Day Bloodiest Battle of the War - 23,000 killed that day. Major victory needed for Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862.
  12. 31. Most famous nurse who created the Red Cross and supported by Lincoln to help assist the wounded in war.
  13. 32. 16th President of the United States, President during the Civil War, and assassinated by John Wilks Booth.
  14. 33. Popular Sovereignty would be used in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
  15. 34. An aggressive slogan adopted in the Oregon boundary dispute, a dispute over where the border between Canada and Oregon should be drawn.
  16. 36. The Idea of attacking military and civilian targets during war.
  17. 38. Providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land.
  18. 39. The idea that the people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery or not.
  19. 40. A decorative ALL Black unit during the Civil War.
  20. 41. 1846 - 1848 Conflict over boundary dispute and the annexation of Texas.
  21. 42. Issed after the Battle of Antietam that declared as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
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  1. 1. Appointed General of the Union Army in 1864. Most Famous of the Union Generals who would because the 18th President of the United States.
  2. 3. Election of Lincoln and the immediate cause of South Carolina seceding from the Union.
  3. 5. Slave states that didn't secede from the Union - Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, & Delaware.
  4. 6. Famous Abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad.
  5. 7. AKA - The Draft
  6. 8. Turning point of the war - 53,000 killed over a 3 - day period. Led to Lincoln issuing the Gettysburg Address.
  7. 12. Key to the Mississippi - Turning Point of the West.
  8. 14. A political party that opposed the extension of slavery in new territories - Slogan “free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men”.
  9. 16. President of the Confederate States of America.
  10. 17. Slaves were considered property not citizens and had no right to sue in court.
  11. 18. Network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North.
  12. 19. Ended the Mexican - American War in 1848. US pays $15 million and gains Mexican cession including California.
  13. 20. 11 Southern, Slave, States who seceded from the Union after the Election of 1860.
  14. 21. Sixty-mile-wide swath of destruction across Georgia to deprive the Confederate army of war materials and railroad communications and break the will of the Southern people by burning towns and plantations.
  15. 23. A confederate general who was known for his fearlessness in leading rapid marches bold flanking movements and furious assaults. He earned his nickname at the battle of first bull run for standing courageously against union fire.
  16. 24. Lincoln's run for Illinois Senate that brought him into the national spotlight with his views and/or beliefs.
  17. 25. Introduced an amendment to a bill stating slavery would not exist in any land gained from Mexico.
  18. 26. The belief that it was our God Given Right to expand from ocean to ocean - Atlantic to the Pacific.
  19. 27. Series of violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
  20. 29. Bleeding Kansas is the term used to describe the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory.
  21. 35. Union Strategy - Block all Southern Ports - Split the Confederacy into two then slowly squeeze them into submission.
  22. 37. Radical abolitionist - Felt that violence was necessary to end slavery.