Blockade

Blockade The shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out

Draft

Draft Law requiring certain people to serve in the military

Total War All-out war that affects civilians at home as well as soldiers in combat

Anaconda Plan

Anaconda Plan Union plan to defeat the Confederacy 1. Use of blockades 2. Capture the Mississippi – Cut the Confederacy in two. 3. Capture Richmond, VA – Confederate Capital.

Emancipation Proclamation

Emancipation Proclamtion President Lincoln’s 1863 declaration freeing slaves in the Confederacy.

Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg Address Speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg. At a National Cemetary

Civil War

Civil War War between people of the same country.

Missouri Compromise

Missouri Compromise Agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slaves and free states equal. Missouri – slave state Maine – free state

Compromise of 1850

Compromise of 1850 Agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict futitive slave law was passed.

Fugitive Slave Law

Fugitive Slave Law Law passed in 1850 that required all citizen to aid in the capture of runaway slaves.

Confederacy

Confederacy Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln was elected.

Union

Union United States – Northern States that wanted to preserve the U.S.A.

secede

Secede Break away – withdraw from a group

Habeas corpus

Habeas Corpus The right that no person can be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime. Lincoln suspended that right due to the Riots in New York.

13 Amendment

13 Amendment Slavery is abolished

14th Amendment

14th Amendment Former slaves are citizens

15th amendment

15 Amendment All men can vote (regardless of race)