Civil War Era Vocabulary

__________: several acts of Congress that included Ca's admission to the Union as a free state, passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, and a law allowing territories acquired from Mx to decide the issue of slavery themselves.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Wilmot Proviso

__________: a doctrine allowing new states to decide the issue of slavery themselves.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

• Abolitionism

• Federalism

__________: abolitionist author who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to show the human impact of slavery.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

__________: act of congress allowing Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery themselves.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

__________: 1857 Supreme Court case ruling that declared that enslaved African Americans had no constitutional rights and that Congress could not decide the issue of slavery in new states.

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

• Brown v. Board of Education

Illinois statesman who served as the 16th president of the US; his term in office included the Civil War period.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Johnson

• Stephen A. Douglas

__________: Government set up in 1861 by seven states that succeeded the Union, 4 other states later joined them.

• Confederate States of America

• Union of American States

• Federal Republic of America

• United States of Confederation

__________: US statesman who served as the first and only president of the Confederacy.

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Johnson

__________: a union held fort in SC that was the site of the first battle of the Civil War.

• Fort Sumter

• Fort Bragg

• Fort Knox

• Fort Lee

__________: Virginia statesman, military leader who commanded the Confederate army during the Civil War.

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stonewall Jackson