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1) DEFINE
*Greenback: a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"
*Conscription: compulsory military service
*Habeas Corpus: One of a variety of writs that may be issued to bring a party before a court or judge, having as its function the release of the party from unlawful restraint.
*Attrition: constant wearing down to weaken or destroy
2) ID
*Robert E. Lee: American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)
*Copperheads: A Northerner who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
*James Mason: English film actor (1909-1984)
*John Slidell: John Slidell (1793 – July 26, 1871), a native of New York City, moved to Louisiana and became a U.S. representative and a U.S. senator from that state in the mid-nineteenth century.
*Trent Affair: (1861) Incident in the American Civil War involving freedom of the seas.
*Anaconda Plan: The Anaconda Plan was proposed in 1861 by Union General Winfield Scott to win the American Civil War with minimal loss of life, enveloping the Confederacy by blockade at sea and control of the Mississippi River.
3) EXPLAIN
The South had little to no railway transport which mand it difficult to transport goods to trading ports
4) ?
5) The north controled the National Treasury & majored in Industries which mass produced weapons for battle. the south had to raise money & had one industry which made cannons..
6) They had nothing to back up the value of their currency.
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9) DISCRIPTIVE WRITING
Dear Family the north looks incredible the land is more intresting then the south it amazes me as to what technology has been able to do i want to learn how things work and for that reason i an joining the Union to fulfill this dream the industries are pushing out weaons around the clock to arm its solders the land i rich in iron ore which seems to be worth alot the confederate states are being pushed back and overwhelmed see you on the otherside
ADAM

PAGE 345 #'S 1,2, 3, 4, & 7

Adam Hopf 5/19/08
F-Block History Page 345 #'s 3, 4 & 7
1. DEFINE
CONFEDERACY: the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
MARTIAL LAW: the body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis); overrides civil law
2. ID
-John C. Breckenridge: was a lawyer, U.S. Representative, Senator from Kentucky, Vice President of the United States, Southern Democratic candidate for President in 1860, (January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875)
-John Bell: 1797–1869, American statesman, b. near Nashville, Tenn. A leading member of the Nashville bar, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1827–41), was speaker in 1834, and for a few weeks in 1841 was Secretary of War under President William Henry Harrison.
-Crittenden's Compromise: The Crittenden Compromise (December 18, 1860) was an unsuccessful proposal by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden to resolve the U.S. secession crisis of 1860–1861 by addressing the concerns that led the states in the Deep South of the United States to contemplate secession.
-Jefferson Davis: American statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1808-1889)
3.LIST
*Article 2: Congress shall have no power to abolish slavery in places under its exclusive jurisdiction, and situate within the limits of States that permit the holding of slaves.
*Article 4: Congress shall have no power to prohibit or hinder the transportation of slaves from one State to another, or to a Territory, in which slaves are by law permitted to be held, whether that transportation be by land, navigable river, or by the sea.
4. CIVING RIGHTS
To prevent the lower border states from seceding Lincoln issued Martial Law which suspended the civil rights of the states population preventing them from seceding.
7. ANAYLYSING POLITICAL CARTOON
The cartoon depicts Lincolns victory in the 1860 election and his rail which i think was his political platform which swept the north and making him president with “NO” southern support at all. It split the union giving the nickname Rail Splitter.

Packet Questions #s 6, 7 & 8

6) The supreme court ruled against Dred Scott on the terms that since Scott was a slave he himself could not sue the government as well as that the Federal GOVT could not prohibit slavery in territories.

7) Lincoln viewed slavery as wrong while Douglas viewed slavery as a choice & based his principles & views on popular sovereignty.

8) Johns raid was to arm slaves and attempt a Coup/insurrection against slave holders.

Page 331 #s 1-3&6

1)DEFINE

• UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses that 19th century African slaves in the United States used to escape to free states (or as far north as Canada) with the aid of abolitionists.
• TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD: The First Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, with the golden spike ceremonially driven at Promontory, Utah, after track was laid over a 1,756 mile (2,826 km) gap between Sacramento and Omaha in six years by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad.

2) ID

• UNCLE TOMS CABIN: highly effective, sentimental Abolitionist novel.


• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT: The fugitive slave laws were statutes passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory.


• HARRIET TUBMAN: United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)


• GADSDEN PURCHASE: The Gadsden Purchase (known as Venta de La Mesilla in Mexico) is a 45,535 mi² (76,770 km²) region of what is today southern Arizona and New Mexico that was purchased by the United States from Mexico in 1853.


• KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened new lands for settlement, and allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery.


• CHARLES SUMMER: Charles Summers (27 July 1825 – 30 November 1878) was an English-born Australian sculptor, creator of the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills.

3) the transcontinental railroad devdied the north & south and incrased the argument about slavery

6) ON A SEPERATE SHEET OF PAPER

Page 324 #s 1-4

1) DEFINE THE FOLLOWING

• POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY: The doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen by election to govern or to represent must conform to the will of the people.
• SECESSION: Secession (derived from the Latin term secessio) is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity.

2) ID THE FOLLOWING

• WILMOT PROVISO: The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846 in the House of Representatives as a rider on a $2 million appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American War.
• LEWIS CASS: Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician. During his long political career, Cass served as a territorial governor, an American ambassador, a U.S. Senator, and was the nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States in 1848.
• CONSCIENCE WHIGS: The "Conscience" Whigs were a faction of the Whig Party in Massachusetts noted for their moral opposition to slavery.
• COTTON WHIGS: The conservative Cotton Whigs were noted as opponents of "Conscience" Whigs.
• FREE-SOIL PARTY: A former political party in the United States; formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into the territories; merged with the Liberty Party in 1848
• “49ers”: Is derived from 1849, the California Gold Rush and is used to describe the gold prospectors that came to California during the gold rush.

3) SUMMERIZE THE FOLLOWING
Popular Sovereignty was the idea to allow the citizens of a state to decide weather or not the wanted to be free or Slave not leave it up to the politicians, the idea & response to this was that Southern states were for it as at the time the power of Slave & Free was in favor of the North “FREE” and hope that popular sovereignty would balance it out.

4) GEO & HIS
the U.S gained 500,000sq miles of land from the war with Mexico the dispute of slavery was amplified with the discovery of gold the idea of using slaves to mine gold California at the time was a free state opposing slavery and using slaves to mine gold was against they state title “FREE STATE”

TERMINOLOGY PAPER

• POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY: The doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen by election to govern or to represent must conform to the will of the people.
• WILMOT PROVISO: The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846 in the House of Representatives as a rider on a $2 million appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American War.
• “49ers”: Is derived from 1849, the California Gold Rush and is used to describe the gold prospectors that came to California during the gold rush.
• COMPROMISE OF 1850: A series of laws that attempted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American War (1846–1848).
• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT: The fugitive slave laws were statutes passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory.
• UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses that 19th century African slaves in the United States used to escape to free states (or as far north as Canada) with the aid of abolitionists.
• GADSDEN PURCHASE: The Gadsden Purchase (known as Venta de La Mesilla in Mexico) is a 45,535 mi² (76,770 km²) region of what is today southern Arizona and New Mexico that was purchased by the United States from Mexico in 1853.
• KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened new lands for settlement, and allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery.
• BLEEDING KANSAS: Bleeding Kansas, sometimes referred to in history as Bloody Kansas or the Border War, was a sequence of violent events involving Free-States (anti-slavery) and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians"
• DRED SCOTT DECISION: was a lawsuit, pivotal in the history of the United States, decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1857 that ruled that people of African descent, whether or not they were slaves, could never be citizens of the United States, and that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories. The decision for the court was written by Chief Justice Roger Taney.