American Histoy

The Civil War Era

Unit Terms

1.       Compromise of 1850—

2.       Fugitive Slave Act—

3.       Stephen A. Douglas—

4.       Popular Sovereignty—

5.       Kansas-Nebraska Act—

6.       James Buchanan—

7.       Abraham Lincoln—

8.       Lincoln-Douglas Debates—

9.       Jefferson Davis—

10.   Confederate States of America (CSA)—

11.   Fort Sumter—

12.   Robert E. Lee—

13.   Battle of Bull Run—

14.   Ulysses S. Grant—

15.   George B. McClellan—

16.   The “Copperheads”—

17.   Peninsula Campaign—

18.   Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson—

19.   Battle of Shiloh—

20.   Battle of Antietam—

21.   Emancipation Proclamation—

22.   Battle of Chancellorsville—

23.   Battle of Gettysburg—

24.   Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain—

25.   Battle of Vicksburg—

26.   William Tecumseh Sherman—

27.   “Sheman’s March to the Sea”—

28.   John Wilkes Booth—

29.   Andrew Johnson—

30.   Thirteenth Amendment—

31.   Reconstruction—

32.   Ku Klux Klan—

33.   Civil Rights Act of 1866—

34.   Fourteenth Amendment—

35.   Fifteenth Amendment—

36.   Scalawag—

37.   Carpetbagger—

38.   Sharecropping—

39.   Tenant Farming—

40.   Radical Republicans—