Lecture 8A Key Terms

Lecture 8A Key Terms  Civil War (1862-1863)

1st Confiscation Act [link]

2nd Confiscation Act [link]

Emancipation Proclamation [link]

(Source:  Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote:  The Contested History of Democracy in the United States, New York: Basic Books, 2000.)

Conservative Republicans

Northern Democrats (Peace Democrats)

Copperheads

1862 Congressional Election (US House of Representatives)

Party Total Seats (change) Seat percentage
Republican Party 86 -22 46.4%
Democratic Party 72 +28 38.9%
Unionist Party 25 -5 13.5%
Independents 2 +1 1.0%
Totals 185 +2 100.0%

Battle of Fredricksburg (December 11-13, 1862) Marye’s Heights

Committee of Nine

“fire in the rear”

The Enrollment Act of Conscription (March 1863)

Chancellorsville (April 30-May 6 1863)

Clement Vallandigham

General Burnside

General Order No. 38 in Military District of Ohio

Vallandigham Decision, Supreme Court (February 1864)