OVERVIEW OF THE CIVIL WAR

UNIT NOTES

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

16TH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. UNTIL HIS ASSASSINATION IN 1865 AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE CIVIL WAR

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION President Abraham Lincoln issued the

Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

13TH AMENDMENT(FREEDOM)

THIS AMENDMENT FREED ALL SLAVES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES.

14TH AMENDMENT (CITIZENSHIP)

ALL PEOPLE BORN OR NATURALIZED IN THE UNITED STATES WERE NOW CITIZENS. THIS GAVE SLAVES THE FULL RIGHTS AND PRIVLEDGES OF CITIZENSHIP.

15TH AMENDMENT (MALE VOTE)

THIS AMENDMENT GAVE ONLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

UNION

FOUGHT TO REUNITE THE REPUBLIC DURING THE CIVIL WAR AGAINST THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH. ( SHOW STUDENTS CIVIL WAR UNIFORMS)

CONFEDERACY

STATES THAT SECEDED (formally withdrew) FROM THE UNION DUE TO ISSUES OVER STATES RIGHTS AND SLAVERY.

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

SPEECH DELIVERED BY PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN AFTER THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG DURING THE CIVIL WAR. STATED THAT EQUALITY WAS NEEDED TO PRESERVE THE UNION.

LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES

DEBATE BETWEEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND STEPHEN DOUGLAS.

DOUGLAS WANTED STATES TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT THEY SHOULD HAVE SLAVERY.

LINCOLNLINCOLN SAID SLAVERYSLAVERY WENT AGAINST THE IDEALS OF AMERICA.

SECESSION

THE ACT OF WITHDRAWING FROM AN ORGANIZATION, UNION, OR A POLITICAL ENTITY.

RECONSTRUCTION

TIME PERIOD IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CIVIL WAR.

LASTED FROM 1865-1877 PLAN TO REBUILD THE SOUTH AND

CHANGE UNEQUAL LAWS AND PRACTICES.

CONSCRIPTION

FORCED ENLISTMENT OF SERVICE TO A COUNTRY; USUALLY FORCED ENTRY INTO THE ARMED FORCES.

FREEDMEN’S BUREAU

The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves with life after slavery.

KU KLUX KLAN

CREATED BY CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR.

THE PURPOSE OF THE KKK WAS TO INSTILL FEAR INTO AFRICAN-AMERICANS, AND FIGHT EQUALITY IN THE SOUTH.

JEFFERSON DAVIS

SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA DURING THE CIVIL WAR.

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT

ACT DRAFTED BY SENATOR STEPHEN DOUGLAS FOR THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA TERRITORIES. DOUGLAS SAID THAT BY THE PRINCIPAL OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, THAT STATES SHOULD DECIDE IF THEY SHOULD HAVE SLAVERY

3/5TH COMPROMISE

SLAVE STATES WERE ABLE TO COUNT 3/5THS OF THEIR SLAVES AS THEIR POPULATION. THIS ALLOWED SLAVE STATES TO GET MORE REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS.

BLEEDING KANSAS

Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War

Series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers.

Took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of Missouri between 1854 and 1861.

BLEEDING KANSAS

Harriet Beecher “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

Novel that informed America about the treatment of slaves. This novel was significant as it would inspire many to insist upon the abolition of slavery and lead to the “Civil War”.

DRED SCOTT DECISION

SLAVE THAT SUED HIS MASTER FOR FREEDOM.

SCOTT AND HIS FAMILY LIVED WITH HIS MASTER IN FREE STATES

SCOTT STATED THAT HE SHOULD BE GIVEN HIS FREEDOM.

THE SUPREME COURT DENIED HIS FREEDOM; BLACKS NOT CITIZENS

DRED SCOTT

Robert E. Lee

Military Commander of the Confederate troops.

Confederate soldiers were more loyal to Lee that the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis.

Ulysses S. Grant

The last of many Union Generals that led the North to its victory against the Confederates.

Often called the butcher because of thousands of Union deaths

John Wilkes Booth

Noted Shakespearean Actor Sided with the Confederates Plotted with other conspirators to kill the

President and his cabinet Assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at

Ford’s Theater in Washington,D.C.

John Wilkes Booth

Appomattox Courthouse

Small town where the Confederacy surrendered to the North.

Missouri Compromise

Slavery not allowed north of the parallel of 36°30′ north ; slavery allowed within Missouri.

Compromise of 1850

Compromise between the North and the South where:

A) California admitted into the US as a free state

B) Slave trade abolished in Washington D.C. C) Harsher fugitive slave act D) Texas gave up New Mexico and given

money to pay off debts.

Fugitive

Someone fleeing from custody, or slavery.

Wilmot Proviso

If this had been accepted by Congress, the law would have made all lands won from Mexico in the Mexican-American War free from slavery.

Black Codes

Began after the Civil War with the purpose of restricting the rights of African-Americans.

Jim Crow

State and local laws that were passed towards the end of the Reconstruction era in 1876 and lasted until 1965

BEGAN AFTER BLACK CODES!!!