Abraham Lincoln issued the _____________________ on January 1, 1863, setting all slaves in the Confederate states free.
Emancipation Proclamation
__________________________ stated that, “no state…can lawfully get out of the Union”, but pledged there would be no war unless the South started it.
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
_______________________________ was meant to help heal and restore the country after four years of Civil War.
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
__________________ created two houses of Congress. One based on population, the other gave equal representation to each state.
The Great Compromise
___________________ wrote the Declaration of Independence; became the 3rd President of the United States and purchased the Louisiana territory, doubling the size of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
______________ was the leader of the original Democratic Party and a “President of the people”. He was also responsible for the Trail of Tears, which forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River.
Andrew Jackson
___________________ was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis
___________________ was the General of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the North.
Ulysses S. Grant
________________ was the General of the Confederate Army.
Robert E. Lee
_________________ was the 16th President of the United States who successfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days after the Civil War ended.
Abraham Lincoln
_____________________ is considered to be the “Father of the Constitution”.
James Madison
__________________ was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Underground Railroad and helped over 300 slaves to freedom in the North.
Harriet Tubman
_______________________ was the Supreme Court decision that said slaves were property and not citizens.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
_________________ was an invention by Eli Whitney that speeded the cleaning of cotton fibers and in effect, increased the need for slaves.
The Cotton Gin
The successful use of the steamboat by _____________________ revolutionized transportation and trade in the United States.
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