1. CIVIL WAR VISUAL VOCABULARY

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
SS.912.A.2.1: Review causes and consequences of the Civil War

3. Free States Slave States
Free State: A state in the US where slavery was illegal.
Slave State: A state in the US where slavery was legal.

4. Missouri Compromise Agreement passed by Congress in 1820
Maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states
Missouri was admitted as a slave state
Maine was admitted as a free state to keep the balance of power

5. Abolitionist
A person who wanted to end slavery

6. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Required escaped slaves to be returned to their owners

7. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery or not
Caused lots of discussion between the North and South

8. Dred Scott Decision U.S. Supreme Court ruling on March 6, 1857
Voted 7–2 that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory was not entitled to his freedom
African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States

9. Harper’s Ferry US arsenal in Virginia where John Brown led a raid
He and his followers hoped to distribute weapons to slaves and start a rebellion
His plan failed and he was executed.

10. Secede To leave or withdraw
Eleven Southern states seceded from the Union in which precipitated the Civil War

11. Confederacy
The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

12. Union
The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

13. Border States
Slave states that remained in the Union (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware)

14. Fort Sumter
Union military post in South Carolina which was taken over by the Confederacy in 1861
Officially began the Civil War

15. Gatling Gun
Rapid-fire gun
capable of shooting 600 rounds per minute

16. Ironclad
Ship made of iron
Monitor (Union) vs. Merrimac (Confederacy)

17. Blockade Blockade Runners
A Union strategy to block supplies getting into the South
Blockade Runners
Confederate steam ships
Ran supplies to the South past the Union blockade

18. Anaconda Plan Union strategy for winning by "squeezing" on all sides
The Union blocked the South's coastline and Mississippi River to stop movement of people and supplies in the South

19. Emancipation Proclamation
Document freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states
It did not end slavery

20. Battle of Gettysburg
The turning point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win
It stopped the South's advance in the North

21. Gettysburg Address
Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery
His three minute speech inspired the North to keep fighting for a united country and the end of slavery

22. Appomattox Courthouse
Place where Civil War ended on April 9, 1865
Lee surrendered to Grant

23. 13th Amendment
Officially abolished slavery in the United States