| Question |
Answer |
| 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. |
Robert Fulton |
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