Kylie Malone
APUSH
Chapter 20 ids
12/10/12
Trent Affair- the 1861 incident with Great Britain in which two Confederate diplomats were seized from a British ship.
Alabama- a new major crisis in Anglo-American relations arose in 1862 over the unneutral building in England of this Confederate warship.
William H. Seward- Lincoln began his precarious term as president by appointing this man as secretary of state.
Jefferson Davis- the Civil War leader who was constantly challenged by states' rights politicians and who was even threatened with impeachment.
Charles Francis Adams- the U.S. minister to England during the Civil War who kept the pressure on the British government to pay for destroyed shipping.
Morill Tariff Act- the 1861 tariff that boosted duties to about the level of the Walker Tariff of 1846.
Laird rams- the two Confederate warships built by Britain that were designed to destroy wooden Union ships with their iron rams.
Maximilian- the Austrian nobleman who served as France's puppet leader of Mexico during the Civil War.
Napoleon III- the European leader who was openly unfriendly to the Union during the Civil War.
National Banking System- the system created in 1863 to stimulate the sale of government bonds and to establish a standard banknote currency.
Edwin M. Stanton- the arrogant, irascible, vindictive, and double-dealing Democrat who Lincoln named as his secretary of war.
Clara Barton- reformer and nurse of the nineteenth century, who founded the American Red Cross in the 1880s. She had organized nursing care for Union soldiers during the Civil War.
Draft Riots- Violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. They were the largest civil insurrection in American history apart from the Civil War itself.
King Cotton-