Civil War Vocabulary

What does compromise mean?

• two or more groups settle a dispute by agreeing to portions of what each group wants

• to maintain an item, nation, or tradition

• the location of the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Northern Virginia Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army

• The 16th President of the United States

What was the Surrender at Appomattox Court House?

• the location of the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Northern Virginia Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army

• The bombardment of the Union military base by Confederate soldiers in Charleston, SC that started the Civil War

• The turning point of the Civil War, where the Union army defeated the Confederate Army and stopped their northern invasion

• a 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether slavery would be allowed within the new states' borders

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• a 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new states' borders

• to maintain an item, nation, or tradition

• two or more groups settle a dispute by agreeing to a portion

  of what each group wants.

• withdraw (leave) formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political organization

What does secede mean?

• withdraw (leave) formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political organization

• to maintain an item, nation, or tradition

• two or more groups settle a dispute by agreeing to a portion

  of what each group wants.

• an agreement that allowed California into the union as a free state, divided the rest of the Mexican cession into two territories, settled land claims between Texas and New Mexico, abolished slave trade in Washington, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act

What was the Compromise of 1850?

• an agreement that allowed California into the union as a free state, divided the rest of the Mexican cession into two territories, settled land claims between Texas and New Mexico, abolished slave trade in Washington, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act

• two or more groups settle a dispute by agreeing to a portion

  of what each group wants.

• a 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new states' borders

• to maintain an item, nation, or tradition

What does preserve mean?

• to maintain an item, nation, or idea

• two or more groups settle a dispute by agreeing to a portion

  of what each group wants

• withdraw (leave) formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political organization

• The turning point of the Civil War, where the Union army defeated the Confederate Army and stopped their northern invasion

What was the Battle of Gettysburg?

• The turning point of the Civil War, where the Union army defeated the Confederate Army and stopped their northern invasion

• the location of the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Northern Virginia Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army

• The bombardment of the Union military base by Confederate soldiers in Charleston, SC that started the Civil War

• an escaped slave who became a huge activist, author and public speaker fighting to end slavery

Who was Fredrick Douglass?

• an escaped slave who became a huge activist, author and public speaker fighting to end slavery

• commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

• commanding general of the Union Army. Later becomes the 18th president of the United States

• the 16th president of the United States

Who was Jefferson Davis?

• an escaped slave who became a huge activist, author and public speaker fighting to end slavery

• commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

• an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865

• the 16th president of the United States

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

• the 16th president of the United States

• commanding general of the Union Army. Later becomes the 18th president of the United States

• an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865

• an escaped slave who became a huge activist, author and public speaker fighting to end slavery