Manifest Destiny
Mexican-American War
Lincoln Douglas Debates
Republican Party
Whig Party
Democratic Party
James Polk
James Buchanan
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
H.B.S.’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
G.F.’s Cannibals All, or Slaves Without Masters vs. H.R.H’s The Impending Crisis of the South
Dred Scott SCOTUS Case
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular Sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas
Stephen Douglas
Lecompton Compromise: biased Kansas state constitution proposal whereby your only choices were limited slavery or full
slavery – anti-slavery people don’t even vote
King Cotton Theory/Cash Crop
1860 Split of the Democratic Party
William Lloyd Garrison
Horace Greeley
Wilmont Proviso
Free Labor vs. Slave Labor
Tariff
Free Soil Party
Know Nothings Party
Sectionalism (cultural/historic/political customary views)
Abraham Lincoln
Salmon Chase
William Seward
Gideon Welles
POTUS Election of 1860
President Lincoln’s First Inaugurals Address
Institutional- legal protections of slavery: US Constitution, state slave codes, Fugitive Slave Acts, Dred Scott ruling)
Brooks’ attack on Sumner
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
Anaconda Plan
Winfield Scott
Ulysses S. Grant
George B. McClellan
Irwin McDowell
John Pope
William Tecumseh Sherman
Don Carlos Buell
Andrew Foote
David Farragut
Williams S. Rosecrans
Henry Halleck
Edwin M. Stanton
Simon Cameron
Jefferson Davis
Alexander Stephens
Robert E. Lee
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
James Longstreet
Joseph E. Johnston
Albert Sidney Johnston
Political Generals:
CSA’s John Floyd, Gideon Pillow, Henry Wise, Robert Toombs
USA’s Benjamin Butler, Nathaniel Banks, John McClernand, Francis Preston Blair, Franz Sigel, Carl Schurz, Thomas
Meagher)
Quartermaster Corps
Montgomery Meigs
Ordinance Bureau
Josiah Gorgas
Trent Affair
Fort Sumter
Union Armies:
Army of the Potomac
Army of the Cumberland
Army of the Ohio
Army of the Tennessee
Rebel Armies:
Army of Northern Virginia
Army of Tennessee
Army of Mississippi
First Battle of Bull Run
Peninsula Campaign
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Murfreesboro/Stone’s River
Second Battle of Bull Run
Battle at Fort Henry
Battle at Fort Donelson
Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburgh Landing)
Emancipation Proclamation
Strategy
Operation
Tactics
Infantry
Artillery
Cavalry
Blockade
Battle of Hampton Roads: Monitor vs. Merrimack (ironclads)
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Chancellorsville
12 pound Napoleon Howitzer (cannon)
Spencer Carbine
Henry Rifle
1861 Springfield Rifle
1853 Enfield Rifle
Matthew Brady
Timothy O’Sullivan
Engineer Corp: tasks: reconnaissance and surveys, map-making, building fortifications, obstacles, bridges, and roads, and
destroying enemy works.
Clara Barton
US Sanitary Commission
Joseph Hooker
Ambrose Burnside
George Gordon Meade
Philip Sheridan
George Thomas
JEB Stuart
Jubal Early
Braxton Bragg
Leonidas Polk
Nathan Bedford Forrest: “The Wizard of the Saddle”
John Bell Hood
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle/Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Chattanooga
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania
March to Atlanta
Battle of Nashville
March to the Sea
Battle of Winchester (third time)/Cedar Creek
Siege of Petersburg and Richmond
Appomattox Court House (Wilmer McLean)
John Brown’s Body/Battle Hymn of the Republic (poem/song)
Dixie (song)
Home Sweet Home (song)
Gettysburg Address
President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Naval Aspects: River War (gunboats)
Naval Aspects: Coastal War/Overseas
CSS H.L. Hunley
CSS Virginia
CSS Alabama
Rifled Field Guns (vs. Smoothbore)
Andersonville Prison
Henry Wirz
Elmira Prison
United States Colored Troops
Assassination of President Lincoln
Reconstruction
Reconciliation
Restoration
Lincoln’s 10% Plan
Wade Davis Plan
Johnson’s Plan
Thaddeus Stevens
Radical Reconstruction: 1st and 2nd Military Reconstruction Acts
Black Codes/Jim Crow
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Lost Cause (myth)
Freedmen’s Bureau
“Wave the Bloody Shirt”
Impeachment of President Johnson
The Birth of a Nation (based on The Clansman)
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Sharecropping
Redeemers
The Compromise of 1877 (Election of 1876)
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
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