Civil War/ Reconstruction Vocab

abolitionists

• People who wanted to end slavery

• a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada

• The tension between the north and south between 1840 and 1861 major causes were nullification crisis, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott v. Sanford, Election of Lincoln (1860)

• States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede

Underground Railroad

• People who wanted to end slavery

• a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada

• The tension between the north and south between 1840 and 1861 major causes were nullification crisis, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott v. Sanford, Election of Lincoln (1860)

• States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede

Sectional Conflict

• People who wanted to end slavery

• a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada

• The tension between the north and south between 1840 and 1861 major causes were nullification crisis, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott v. Sanford, Election of Lincoln (1860)

• States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede

Border States

• People who wanted to end slavery

• a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada

• The tension between the north and south between 1840 and 1861 major causes were nullification crisis, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott v. Sanford, Election of Lincoln (1860)

• States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede

Underground Railroad

• People who wanted to end slavery

• a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada

• The tension between the north and south between 1840 and 1861 major causes were nullification crisis, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott v. Sanford, Election of Lincoln (1860)

• States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede

more supplies, more people, railroads, factories, powerful navy

• Northern Advantages in the Civil War

• Southern Advantages in the Civil War

better military leaders, they were fighting on their own terrain/land (knowledge of the land)

• Northern Advantages in the Civil War

• Southern Advantages in the Civil War

African American Company responsible for leading an attack on Ft. Wagner, located in SC.

• 54th Massachusetts

• Anaconda Plan

• Civil War turning points

• Emancipation Proclamation

Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south

• 54th Massachusetts

• Anaconda Plan

• Civil War turning points

• Emancipation Proclamation

Gettysburg, Antietam and Vicksburg

• 54th Massachusetts

• Anaconda Plan

• Civil War turning points

• Emancipation Proclamation