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Final Exam Review Civil War-Very Very Very HELPFUL

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John Wilkes Booth   Assassinated President Lincoln  
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Carpetbaggers   Name given to the people who moved to the south to make money from reconstruction after the civil war  
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Jefferson Davis   President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War  
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Ulysses S. Grant   General of the U.S. Army, later president  
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Robert E. Lee   General of the Confederate States of America  
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Abraham Lincoln   President of the United States during the Civil War  
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Industrial Revolution   The name for the time period of rapid industrial growth  
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Civil War   A war within a country-one side fights against the other  
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Mason-Dixon Line   Border between Maryland and Pennsylvania-separated free states from slave states  
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Richmond   Capital of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War  
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Washington D. C.   Capital of the U.S.A.  
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Fort Sumter   South Carolina-first shots of the civil war  
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Battle of Gettysburg   Turning point of the civil war  
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Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac   First battle with iron clad warships, battle ended in a draw  
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Sherman's March   General William T. Sherman-path of destruction through Georgia  
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Ford's Theater   Theater where Lincoln was assassinated  
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Appomattox Courthouse   Site of Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant  
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Compromise of 1820   Missouri was admitted to the U.S. as a slave state and Maine as a free state to keep the slave and non-slave states balanced  
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Uncle Tom's Cabin   Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe-about the cruelty of slavery-motivated people to become abolitionists, mostly Northerners  
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Abolitionists   People who wanted to end slavery  
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Blockade   Blocking ships from entering ports  
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Blockade Runners   Independent ship owners who try to get supplies past a blockade  
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Border States   Delaware, Maryland, W. Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri  
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Civilian   A person who is NOT part of the military  
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Impeach   To bring an elected official to trial for misconduct or a crime  
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Ku Klux Klan   A group trying to stop the civil rights of former slaves  
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Nationalism   Love and loyalty for your country  
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Tariff   Tax on imported goods  
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