| A | B |
|---|
| Presidents | Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanon, Lincoln |
| Black Warrior | US ship captured by Cuba |
| Marcy | Secretary of State - tells Soule, Buchaon and Mason to meet him in Ostend, Germany to write Ostend Mainfesto |
| Ostend Manifesto | Sell Cuba to US - ignored by Spanish |
| Gadsden Purchase | US buys area from Mexico for $10M |
| Transcontinental Railroad | 3 routes - North, Central, South |
| Senate Committee onTerritories | Chairman - Douglas, wanted to make LA Purchase a territory to provide protection and to open area up for settlers |
| Popular Sovereignty | let residents of an area decide on slavery promoted by Douglas |
| Kansas - Nebraska Bill | put pop. sov. into law, destroys Whig party |
| Trent | British ship captured by US to provoke war between Britain US |
| Blue Lodges | Formed by Missouri to send immigrants to promote slavry |
| New England Emmigrant Aid Society | opposed slavery |
| Topeka Costitution | written by free-state residents, opposed by Douglas |
| Lecompton Constitution | pro slavery |
| "The Crime Against Kansas" | speech by Charles Sumner in which Senator Butler was denounced and called Douglas a skunk |
| Preston Brooks | caned Sumner as a result of his speech |
| Lawrence, Kansas | riot - pro-slave ppl killed |
| John C. Fremont | 1st Republican presidnt candidate |
| Republican Party | opposed expansion of slavery |
| Underground Railroad | slaves smuggled to freedom |
| Abolitionism | abolishment of slavery |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin to humanize slavery |
| George Fitzhugh | Southern Apologist |
| Dred Scott Case | went to Supreme Court, said that slaves were property and could be taken anywhere |
| Panic of 1875 | economic crisis, primarily affected North |
| gerrymandering | establishing legislative electoral districts to favor 1 viewpoint |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debate | phenomenon in 1855 election |
| Freeport Doctrine | removed legal foundation of slavery |
| Harper's Ferry | John Brown captured arsenal to incite a slave revolt, Brown convicted of teason and executed - becomes martyr for the North |
| Senator William Yancey | head of League of United Southerners |
| 1860 Political Parties | N.Democrats = Douglas = pop. sov. S. Domcrats = Breckinridge = secession justified Republicans = Lincoln = no expansion of slavery Constutional Union = John Bell = Constitution +Union |
| 2/3rds Rule | needed 2/3rds majority to win Deomcratic nomination for presidency |
| Crittendom Compromise | extend Missouri Compromise to West |
| Secessions | 1st group - prompted by Lincoln 2nd grup - prompted by Lincoln's call for volunteers |
| Fort Sumter | SC said it was theirs when they seceeded |
| Lincoln's call for volunteers | regarded by South as declaration ofwar |
| R.E Lee and Jeb Stuart | captured John Brown |
| Jefferson Davis | president of confederacy |
| Emancipation Proclamation | alters purpose for war to a fight to end slavry |
| Appomattox Court House | where Lee surrenders |
| Andersonville | example that neither side equipped for prisoners |
| Chancellorsville | Lee defeats Hooker - Jackson killed |
| Gettysburg | Pickett's Charge (15,000 men across open field, killd by Northerners) South defeated |
| Southern Disadvantages | No industry led to inflation, Deserton, prisoners |
| Chattanooga | where Rosecrans retreats, Bragg follows him and surrounds Fedrals, Grnt and others defeat Confederates there |
| Chickamauga | Huge Confederate victory |
| Bull Run | Confederates defeat Federal attemt to capture Richmond |
| Shiloh | Confederates win, but are too wounded to keep control of Tennessee |
| Ironclads | ships covered in armor, Southerners built the Virgina, Northerners built the Moniter - changed ships foreve |
| Antietam | Lee invades North, Southern pyrrhic vicotry (so many casualties it wasnt worth t) |
| 2nd Battle of Bull Run | Lee defeats Pope |
| Souther disadvantages | not much equipment, little manufacturing ability, little money, smaller population |
| Southern advantages | fighting on home turf, better military leaders |
| Northern strategy | Anaconda Plan - divide South by taking the Mississippi then close in until they surrender |
| Southern Strategy | hold on until North quits (like Revolutionary War) |
| Confederate foreign policy | attempt to involve other countries; sell no cotton to Britain until it joins the South |
| Union foreign policy | prevent other countries from getting involved |
