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Civil War Terms
4th Grade Unit Social Studies
Term | Definition |
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Civil War | Civilian or Citizen War |
North | Industrial-Factories-Small Farms-Big Cities |
South | Large Plantations- King Cotton |
Territory | An area land that belongs to a government |
Abolitionist | Persons who are against slavery |
Tariff | A tax on goods |
Cotton Gin | A machine invented by Eli Whitney that took seeds out of cotton |
Missouri Compromise of 1820 | A law passed by congress creating an imaginary line from east to west through the Louisiana territory allowing slavery in some area and outlawing slavery in others |
State Rights (rats) | The belief that each state should be allowed to make it's own decisions about issues affecting it |
Fugitive Slave Law | Passed in congress that required police in free states to help capture escaping slaves |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that made people understand the atrocities of slavery. The book protested the Fugitive Slave law-sold 3,000 |
Underground Railroad | A network of people who would risk breaking the law to hide runaway slaves |
John Brown | held a gun in one hand and a bible in another. A strong believer in no slavery and he raided the town of Harper's Ferry- captured U.S. arsenal |
John Brown 2 | He freed slaves and captured plantation owners- Robert E Lee captured him. He was hanged and known as a Martyr for the North |
Bleeding Kansas | Many people died in fighting whether there should be slavery in Kansas or not! |
Missouri Compromise of 1850 | Allowing the people in the territories to decide slavery for themselves and obtaining the North's agreement to obey the Fugitive Slave Law |
Martyr | A person who dies or goes to jail for a cause |
Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court decision that said slaves were private property |
Northern | U.S.A.- Union blue -Abe Lincoln Pres. (Washington D.C. Capitol) |
Southern | C.S.A- Confederate Gray- Jefferson Davis- Pres. Richmond, Va (capitol)- 100 miles apart |
November 6, 1860 | Lincoln elected as president- close race |
December 22, 1860 | South Carolina seceded from the Union and 8 more states followed |
March 4, 1861 | Lincoln took office |
April 12, 1861 | Civil War began at Fort Sumter in S.C.- first shots by the confederates |
Secede | to break away from group |
Facts on battles | All civil war battles fought in the South except for two. North named it's battles after a stream or a run. South named it after the nearest town |
Merrimac | South Ironclad ship |
Monitor | North Ironclad ship |
Emancipation Proclomation | January 1, 1863- President Lincoln declared that all slaves were free men |