AMH 1010: History of the United States I Study Guide: Chapter #15: Secession and the Civil War, 1860-1862
Terms/Concepts/Events
“fire-eaters”
Election of 1860
swing states (or “battleground states”)
Wide-Awake clubs
Ordinances of Secession – Charleston (actually Buford), South Carolina
Crittenden Compromise
Fort Moultrie & Fort Sumter
Lower & Upper South
Border states
“bushwhackers” & “jayhawkers”
West Virginia
Union strengths & weaknesses
Confederate strengths & weaknesses
rifles & rifling technology & the Civil War
- railroads - steamships - telegraph - torpedoes - iron clad warships - combat submarines - gattling guns
Legal Tender Act & “greenbacks”
National Banking Act
blockade, “blockade runners” & the Anaconda strategy
King Cotton & Southern diplomacy
commerce raiders (or privateers): the C.S.S. Florida & C.S.S. Alabama
“Forward to Richmond” & 1st Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
Battle of Shiloh & Pittsburg Landing
The Peninsula Campaign, Battle of Seven Pines & the Seven Days’ Battles
2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
Individuals
Senator Stephen Douglas & the Democratic nomination of 1860
William Yancey, Edmund Ruffin & the League of United Southerners
William H. Seward President Abraham Lincoln
Alexander H. Stephens
Jefferson Davis
President James Buchanan
Major Robert Anderson & General Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Nathaniel Lyon
William Quantrill, Frank & Jesse James and James & Cole Younger
Captain Charles Wilkes, James Mason, John Slidell & the Trent Affair
Raphael Semmes
General Winfield Scott
General Irwin McDowell
General Joseph E. Johnston
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson & “Jackson’s foot cavalry”
General George B. McClellan “The Young Napoleon” & the Army of the Potomac
David G. Farragut, “Damn the torpodeos” & the capture of New Orleans
General U.S. (“Unconditional Surrender”) Grant and Forts Henry & Donelson
General Albert Sydney Johnston
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Dates to Know
1860 Abraham Lincoln elected the 16th President of the United States, and South Carolina seceded from the Union. 1861 Rest of southern states seceded from the Union, Fort Sumter fell and the 1st Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) ended in resounding Confederate victory. 1862 Congress passed the Legal Tender Act (which printed America’s first “greenbacks”), Battle of Hampton Roads between the C.S.S. Virginia and the U.S.S. Monitor resulted in a draw and General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Virginia invaded Maryland.