Blockade

1. Blockade

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

3. Draft

4. Draft • Law requiring certain people to serve in the military

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

6. Anaconda Plan

7. 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.

8. Emancipation Proclamation

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

10. Gettysburg Address

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

12. Civil War

13. Civil War • War between people of the same country.

14. Missouri Compromise

15. 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

16. Compromise of 1850

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

18. Fugitive Slave Law

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

20. Confederacy

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

22. Union

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

24. secede

25. Secede • Break away – withdraw from a group

26. Habeas corpus

27. 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.

28. 13 Amendment

29. 13 Amendment • Slavery is abolished

30. 14th Amendment

31. 14th Amendment • Former slaves are citizens

32. 15th amendment

33. 15 Amendment • All men can vote (regardless of race)