Trigger words
Black Codes: Designed to regulate the affairs of the emancipated blacks. Aimed to ensure a stable and subservient labor force. Sought to restore as nearly as possible the pre-emancipation system of race relations. They mocked the ides of freedom and imposed terrible hardships on the blacks.
Compromise of 1850: Last great compromise that allowed U.S. to remain unified in both Southern slave states and free Northern states; Series of laws that attempted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican American War; the five laws balanced the interests of the slave states of the South of Missouri and the free states to the North.
Dred Scott: The case of a slave who sued for his freedom because he was taken into a free state by his owner. The case went to the Supreme Court and he was denied freedom because the Court said he could not bring suit as he was not a citizen. The effect of the decision was that the Missouri Compromise was overturned.
Emancipation Proclmation: 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. Although implementation was strictly beyond Lincoln's powers, the declaration turned the war into a crusade against slavery. It was signed on January 1, 1863.
Freeport Doctrine: Douglas's way of evading the issue of slavery during the Lincoln-Douglas debates, by stating that Congress couldn't force a territory to become a slave state against its will, and that people could prevent slavery from coming to the territories by not issuing slave codes. Rules will only work if state enforces.
Kansas-Nebraska Act: Nebraska attempts to become a state (Benefits Douglass who wanted a railroad in northern US). Proposed that the issue of slavery be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas (slave) and Nebraska (free) territories, thus revoking the 1820 Missouri Compromise. Introduced by Douglass in an effort to bring Nebraska into the Union and pave the way for a northern transcontinental railroad.
Know-Nothings: a movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1850s, characterized by political xenophobia, anti-Catholic sentiment, and occasional bouts of violence against the groups the nativists targeted.Ostend Manifesto: a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused.
Ostend Manifesto: Policy to acquire Cuba as slave state and balance power in Senate which South threatened to seize Cuba if Spain refusedto sell it; Cuba's annextauon had been a goal of the southern expansionists. Manifesto shut down after North got wind of plan (conspiracy).
Radical Republicans: were opposed during the war by moderates and conservative factions led by Abraham Lincoln and after the war by self-described "conservatives" (in the South) and "Liberals" (in the North). Radicals strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates, demanding harsh policies for the former rebels, and emphasizing civil rights and voting rights for Freedmen (recently freed slaves)
Reconstruction Plans: Plans to reconstruct the split and broken American country after its bloody hateful civil war.
Wilmot Proviso: one of the major events leading to the American Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico
Compromise of 1850: Last great compromise that allowed U.S. to remain unified in both Southern slave states and free Northern states; Series of laws that attempted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican American War; the five laws balanced the interests of the slave states of the South of Missouri and the free states to the North.
Dred Scott: The case of a slave who sued for his freedom because he was taken into a free state by his owner. The case went to the Supreme Court and he was denied freedom because the Court said he could not bring suit as he was not a citizen. The effect of the decision was that the Missouri Compromise was overturned.
Emancipation Proclmation: 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. Although implementation was strictly beyond Lincoln's powers, the declaration turned the war into a crusade against slavery. It was signed on January 1, 1863.
Freeport Doctrine: Douglas's way of evading the issue of slavery during the Lincoln-Douglas debates, by stating that Congress couldn't force a territory to become a slave state against its will, and that people could prevent slavery from coming to the territories by not issuing slave codes. Rules will only work if state enforces.
Kansas-Nebraska Act: Nebraska attempts to become a state (Benefits Douglass who wanted a railroad in northern US). Proposed that the issue of slavery be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas (slave) and Nebraska (free) territories, thus revoking the 1820 Missouri Compromise. Introduced by Douglass in an effort to bring Nebraska into the Union and pave the way for a northern transcontinental railroad.
Know-Nothings: a movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1850s, characterized by political xenophobia, anti-Catholic sentiment, and occasional bouts of violence against the groups the nativists targeted.Ostend Manifesto: a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused.
Ostend Manifesto: Policy to acquire Cuba as slave state and balance power in Senate which South threatened to seize Cuba if Spain refusedto sell it; Cuba's annextauon had been a goal of the southern expansionists. Manifesto shut down after North got wind of plan (conspiracy).
Radical Republicans: were opposed during the war by moderates and conservative factions led by Abraham Lincoln and after the war by self-described "conservatives" (in the South) and "Liberals" (in the North). Radicals strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates, demanding harsh policies for the former rebels, and emphasizing civil rights and voting rights for Freedmen (recently freed slaves)
Reconstruction Plans: Plans to reconstruct the split and broken American country after its bloody hateful civil war.
Wilmot Proviso: one of the major events leading to the American Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico
Primary Sources
Abolitionist Newspaper Slams South on Eve of Civil War (1861)
Link: http://www.newsinhistory.com/blog/abolitionist-newspaper-slams-south-eve-civil-war
Summarize: Published just before the start of the Civil War, this document details the insolens
Significance:
Daniel (Anthony)
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1861: Anaconda Plan: General Winfield Scott's letter to General George McClellan
Link: http://www.civilwarhome.com/scottmcclellananaconda.htm
Summary: This is a letter to McClellan from Scott regarding McClellan's Anacoda Plan. Throught the letter, it is apparent that Scott disagress with some of McClellan's ideas and is voicing his opinions in a calm and collective way. General Scott makes revelvant points such as plans against the South with main ideas. First, all ports in the seceding states were to be blockaded and about 80,000 men should use the Mississippi River as a highway to go through the Confedaracy. Although Scott does create the voice that him and McClellan are on the same side, but Scott just thinks there is other ways to go about this plan. He mentions things such as the troops, blockades, and the consequences. This letter is to offer McClellan, Scott's ideals and what they can do to work together.
Significance: The significance of this is to reveal the relationships between gernerals and their communication through formal letters. Also, its apparent the respect between one another because Scott does not tell McClellan he is wrong, but rather offer his suggestions and what he sees as the right way to go about the situation. This is a reliable and helpful source to see the provisions generals were trying to make thoughout the Civil war and working together as they make these plans to be sucessful.
Andrea M.
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An appeal for peace sent to Lieut. Gen. Scott, July 4, 1861
Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpe:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28rbpe0310110a%29%29
Summary: This document is the women of Maryland asking Lieut. Gen. Scott to stop fighting in the war because it was killing off all of the men in their family. Most of the letter consists of flattery for Lieut. Gen. Scott, and then the last paragraph or so is pleading. It is very elegantly worded and has religious themes.
Significance: I think the most significant thing about this document was that it was ignored at the time and the plight of women during the civil war (in regards to their feelings to the war) has been skimmed over in history books. It might also be noteworthy that the women had to write for three or four paragraphs just talking about how great the men are in order to be heard at all.
Link: http://www.newsinhistory.com/blog/abolitionist-newspaper-slams-south-eve-civil-war
Summarize: Published just before the start of the Civil War, this document details the insolens
Significance:
Daniel (Anthony)
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1861: Anaconda Plan: General Winfield Scott's letter to General George McClellan
Link: http://www.civilwarhome.com/scottmcclellananaconda.htm
Summary: This is a letter to McClellan from Scott regarding McClellan's Anacoda Plan. Throught the letter, it is apparent that Scott disagress with some of McClellan's ideas and is voicing his opinions in a calm and collective way. General Scott makes revelvant points such as plans against the South with main ideas. First, all ports in the seceding states were to be blockaded and about 80,000 men should use the Mississippi River as a highway to go through the Confedaracy. Although Scott does create the voice that him and McClellan are on the same side, but Scott just thinks there is other ways to go about this plan. He mentions things such as the troops, blockades, and the consequences. This letter is to offer McClellan, Scott's ideals and what they can do to work together.
Significance: The significance of this is to reveal the relationships between gernerals and their communication through formal letters. Also, its apparent the respect between one another because Scott does not tell McClellan he is wrong, but rather offer his suggestions and what he sees as the right way to go about the situation. This is a reliable and helpful source to see the provisions generals were trying to make thoughout the Civil war and working together as they make these plans to be sucessful.
Andrea M.
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An appeal for peace sent to Lieut. Gen. Scott, July 4, 1861
Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpe:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28rbpe0310110a%29%29
Summary: This document is the women of Maryland asking Lieut. Gen. Scott to stop fighting in the war because it was killing off all of the men in their family. Most of the letter consists of flattery for Lieut. Gen. Scott, and then the last paragraph or so is pleading. It is very elegantly worded and has religious themes.
Significance: I think the most significant thing about this document was that it was ignored at the time and the plight of women during the civil war (in regards to their feelings to the war) has been skimmed over in history books. It might also be noteworthy that the women had to write for three or four paragraphs just talking about how great the men are in order to be heard at all.