Era 6 Vocabulary

Harper's Ferry

• An armory place
• John Brown came up with the idea to steal firearms
• Sparked a slave insurrection throughout the South

Fort Sumter

• An island located in Charleston, South Carolina
• Where the Civil War started in 1861

Slavery

• Practice or system of owning African Americans, etc.
• Ended in the United States by Abraham Lincoln

Confederacy

• The government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860
• Attempted to establish a new nation

Appomattox Courthouse

• Fought on April 9, 1865
• Led to Robert E. Lee's surrender of his army of Northern Virginia

Sherman's March

• A 285-mile march led by William T. Sherman
• Led 60,000 soldiers from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia

Morse Code

• 2 systems that represent letters of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuations

Stonewall Jackson

• Confederate General in the American Civil War
• Fought in the Mexican War
• Died from pneumonia on May 10, 1863

Emancipation Proclamation

• An order issued by Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in 10 states
• Confirmed that the War for the Union must become a war for freedom

Battle of Antietam

Uncle Tom's Cabin

• An abolitionist novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Was written to convince Stowe's large Northern readership to end slavery

Union

• An act or instance of uniting or joining two or more things into one
• Helps set standards for educations, skill levels, wages, etc

Gatling Gun

• Hand-driven gun machine
• First gun to solve problems of loading, reliability and sustained bursts.

Battle of Vicksburg

• A campaign of the American Civil War on May 18, 1863
• Opened a way for the North to seize control of the entire Mississippi river

Ironclad

• A warship with an armor plating
• Designed to be immune to enemy shot

Secede

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

Battle of Gettysburg

• Fought on July 1, 1863
• Ended Robert E. Lee's second attempt to invade the North
• Ended the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

• 16th president of the United States
• Prosecuted the Civil War to preserve the nation
• Ended slavery in America

Robert E. Lee

• Confederate general who led the South's at secession during the Civil War
• Challenged Union forces during the war's like the Battle of Gettysburg

Ulysses S. Grant

• Commanding general
• Led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War

Anaconda Plan

• Military strategy proposed by the Union General
• Purpose was to defeat the rebellion by blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi river

Border States

• A state on the edge of the U.S. that is adjacent to either Canada or Mexico.
• Vital to the success of the Union
• Contained transportation and communication lines that the war needed

Gettysburg Address

• A text that invoked the principles of human equality
• Turned back a Confederate invasion
• Marked a turning point in the Civil War

Jefferson Davis

• President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War
• Served in the army
• Represented Mississippi in the US House of Representatives and Senate

Casualties

• A person killed or injured in a war or accident.

Civil War

• A war that took place in the United States on 1861
• Ended due to surrender in 1865

William Sherman

• American Civil War general
• A major architect of modern warfare
• Led Union forces in campaigns through the South