Unit #7 – The U.S. Civil War

Please copy the following words in your Vocabulary Notebook: Popular Sovereignty: Political policy that permitted the residents of federal territories to decide on whether to enter the union as free or slave states. 2) Compromise of 1850: Political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law. 3) Fugitive Slave Act: Law that required all citizens to aid in apprehending runaway slaves.

Please copy the following words in your Vocabulary Notebook: 4) Secede: To withdraw formally from a membership in a group or an organization. 5) Ft. Sumter: Federal fort located in Charleston, South Carolina , where the 1st shots of the Civil War were fired.

Please copy the following words in your Vocabulary Notebook: 6) Confederate States of America: Government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States and fought against the Union in the Civil War. 7) Border States: During the Civil War the states that allowed slavery but remained in the Union – Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware

Please copy the following words in your Vocabulary Notebook: 8) Habeus Corpus: Constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed. 9) Emancipation Proclamation: Decree by President Lincoln that freed enslaved people living in Confederate states still in rebellion. 10) Blockade: Military tactic in which a navy prevents vessels from entering or leaving its enemy’s ports.

Please copy the following words in your Vocabulary Notebook: 11) Anaconda Plan: The name applied to the Union strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War. 12) Jefferson Davis: The 1st and only President of the Confederacy.

Please copy the following words in your Vocabulary Notebook: 13) Stonewall Jackson: One of the most famous generals of the Confederate army. He was greatly respected by the men of both armies. 14) William T. Sherman: The Union general who carried out the famous March to the Sea which brought total war to the Confederacy to end the Civil War. 15) Ulysses S. Grant: The General in charge of all the Union armies at the end of the Civil War who accepted the surrender of the Confederate army. 16) Robert E. Lee: The General in charge of all the Confederate armies throughout the Civil War, and who was probably the best military mind on both sides. He eventually surrendered to the Union forces at Appomattox.