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SLO Review SC Hist
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| partisans | militia/minutemen who were Patriots during the Revolutionary War |
| Patriots | colonists who supported independence from Britain |
| Loyalists | People who supported Britain and King George III |
| Battle of Camden | Continental Army retreated and lost |
| Battle of Cowpens | Victory for the Continental Army |
| Battle of Kings Mountain | Turning point of the Revolutionary War in the South |
| Articles of Confederation | First form of a constitution for the US (unsuccessful) |
| US Constitution | outlines the government for the US; supreme law of the land (replaced Articles of Confederation) |
| Legislative | Branch of government that makes the laws (Congress) |
| Executive | President, Vice President, Cabinet |
| Judicial | Branch of government that determines if laws are constitutional (Supreme Court) |
| government by the people | Based on the Declaration of Independence, the US government gets its power from the people |
| Checks and balances | ensures that one branch of government does not get too much power |
| John C. Calhoun | Famous SC politician, Warhawk, and Vice President (left this position to help with Nullification Crisis) |
| Fugitive Slave Act | required runaway slaves to be returned to their owners (benefited slave owners) |
| Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court case where former slave sued for his freedom; Ruled that slaves were not citizens and MO Comp was unconstitutional (benefited slave owners) |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Created popular sovereignty and dealt with the free/slave state balance |
| Election of 1860 | Abraham Lincoln was elected President; final straw that led to SC seceding from the Union |
| Unionist | People who wanted to remain a part of the United States in the antebellum era |
| Secessionists | People who supported seceding from the United States in the antebellum era |
| blockade | prevents supplies from getting to port |
| William T. Sherman | Led the March to the Sea; was especially tough on SC (including the capital Columbia) because it was where the war began |
| Port Royal | became headquarters for the Union naval blockade of Charleston |
| Charleston | SC city that feared a Union attack after the fall of Port Royal |
| Fort Sumter | The attack on this military fort in SC marks the start of the Civil War |
| Robert Smalls | Slave who earned freedom for himself and his family by sailing his ship to Union lines (out of Charleston harbor) |
| CSS Hunley | Submarine used during the Civil War; sunk the Housatonic |
| Anaconda Plan | North's strategy to control the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in half |
| Lincoln's goal | to reunite the United States |
| Black Codes | Prevented blacks from voting by using literacy tests, poll tax, etc. |
| Republican Rule | During Reconstruction, when blacks were allowed to play a bigger role in statewide government |
| Reconstruction Amendments | 13, 14, 15 amendment granted freedom and basic rights to slaves (abolish slavery, citizenship, right to vote) |
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