1. History Terms
By: Alana Holevas

2. Fugitive Slave Act
• Laws passed by the United States
Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for
the return of slaves who escaped from one
state into another state or territory.

3. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the
Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American
author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in
1852, the novel, "helped lay the groundwork
for the Civil War", according to Will
Kaufman.

4. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• An American abolitionist and author.
Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
depicted life for African-Americans under
slavery; it reached millions as a novel and
play, and became influential in the United
States and United Kingdom.

5. Kansas Nebraska Act
• of 1854 created the territories of Kansas
and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed
the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and
allowed settlers in those territories to
determine if they would allow slavery
within their boundaries.

6. John Brown
• An abolitionist who was hanged after
leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's
Ferry,Virginia. (1800-1859)

7. popular sovereignty
• A notion that political power or the power
to govern is derived from the people. As
such, the people retain the right to rescind
any grant of power to the government.

8. Dred Scott
• Dred Scott (1799 – September 17, 1858),
was an African American slave in the United
States who sued unsuccessfully for his
freedom in the infamous Dred Scott v.
Sandford case of 1857.

9. Lincoln/Douglas Debate
• Abraham Lincoln was a relative unknown at
the beginning of the debates in 1858 as
they ran for a Senate seat from Illinois. In
contrast to Stephen Douglas' Popular
Sovereignty stance, Lincoln stated that the
US could not survive as half-slave and half-
free states.

10. Jefferson Davis
• An American soldier and president of the
Confederacy (1861–1865). He was
captured by Union soldiers in 1865 and
imprisoned for two years, and although he
was indicted for treason (1866), he was
never prosecuted.

11. secede
• Withdraw formally from membership in a
federal union, an alliance, or a political or
religious organization.

12. Confederate States of
America
• The southern states that seceded from the
United States in 1861.

13. Fort Sumter
• A historic site in the mouth of the harbor
of Charleston in South Carolina.
Confederate forces fired on US troops
here in April 1861, beginning the Civil War.

14. Border State
• Any of the slave states that bordered the
northern free states during the US Civil
War.

15. Robert E. Lee
• Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 –
October 12, 1870) was a career United
States Army officer and combat engineer.
He became the commanding general of the
Confederate army in the American Civil
War and a postwar icon of the South's
"lost cause.

16. blockade
• A war measure that isolates some area of
importance to the enemy.

17. Battle of Bull Run/
Manassas
• Fought on July 21, 1861, near the city of
Manassas. It was the first major land battle
of the American Civil War.

18. Ulysses S. Grant
• The 18th President of the United States
(1869–1877) as well as military commander
during the Civil War and post-war
Reconstruction periods.

19. Battle of Shiloh
• The second great battle of the American
Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the
withdrawal of Confederate troops but it
was not a Union victory.

20. cavalry
• Soldiers who fought on horseback.

21. Antietam
• Fought on September 17, 1862, near
Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek,
as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the
first major battle in the American Civil War
to take place on Northern soil.

22. 54th Massachusetts
Regiment
• The regiment was one of the first official
black units in the United States during the
Civil War.

23. Emancipation
Proclamation
• The announcement made by President
Lincoln during the Civil War on September
22, 1862, emancipating all black slaves in
states still engaged in rebellion against the
Union.

24. Copperhead
• Named for the poisonous snake which
gives no warning before it strikes,
Copperheads were Northerners who
opposed the American Civil War.
Considered traitors by others in the
North, they favored immediate peace with
the Confederacy.

25. conscription
• Compulsory enlistment for state service,
typically into the armed forces.

26. bounty
• A sum paid for killing or capturing a person
or animal.

27. Clara Barton
• A Civil War nurse and founder of the
American Red Cross.

28. Battle of Gettysburg
• A battle of the American Civil War (1863);
the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading
Confederate Army was a major victory for
the Union.

29. Siege of Vicksburg
• a decisive battle in the American Civil War
(1863); after being besieged for nearly
seven weeks the Confederates
surrendered.

30. William Tecumseh
Sherman
• United States general who was commander
of all Union troops in the West; he
captured Atlanta and led a destructive
march to the sea that cut the Confederacy
in two.

31. Appomattox Court
House
• A courthouse in Appomattox,Virginia built
in 1892. It is located in the middle of the
state about three miles (5 km) northwest
of the Appomattox Court House National
Historical Park, once known as Clover Hill.

32. Thirteenth Amendment
• Ratified in 1865, this amendment abolished
slavery.