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Chapter 7 Review
Question | Answer |
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Abraham Lincoln | 16th President, ended slavery with Emancipation Proclamation, killed by John Wilkes Booth |
George Meade | led the Union soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg |
Robert E Lee | Confederate general in Civil War |
Harriet Tubman | was a former slave who was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, led many slaves to freedom |
Fort Sumter | Northern fort in South Carolina, first shot of the Civil War was fired |
Battle of Gettysburg | turning point of the Civil War, Union victory pushed the Confederate Army south |
Union | Northern Army, nicknamed the Yankees, wore blue |
Confederacy | Southern Army, nicknamed Rebels, wore grey |
Slavery | one reason for the Civil War, it was the condition of one person being owned by another person, in 1780 Pennsylvania made it illegal to own a slave |
Secede | to leave, 11 states seceded from the Union |
Jefferson Davis | became President of the southern states |
Underground Railroad | a system of secret routes through which people helped slaves escape to freedom |
Conductor | someone who led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad |
Passenger | someone who tried to escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad |
Station | a safe place that passengers stay at on the Underground Railroad |
Abolition | the ending of slavery |
Gettysburg Address | November 19, 1863 President Lincoln delivered this speech at the Gettysburg Battlefield & made it a national cemetery |
Ulysses S Grant | Northern General who Robert E Lee surrendered to at Appomattox |
Thaddeus Stevens | said "the blessings of education shall be carried home to the poorest child" |
Clara Barton | Founded the American Red Cross |
Henry Clay Frick | owned most of Pennsylvania's coke ovens in 1885 |
John Wanamaker | opened the first department store in Philadelphia |
Frank Woolworth | opened the first "Five and Dime" store in Lancaster |
Andrew Carnegie | Steel King, became wealthy in the steel industry |
Technology | the use of skills, ideas, and tools to meet people's needs |
Invention | a newly created product |
Union | an organization formed by workers joined together to ask for better pay and working conditions |
Johnstown | place where one of the United States word floods happened in 1889 |
Oxford | the Ashmun Institute opened here in 1854, it is the oldest African American college in the United States still in operation |
Strike | the stopping of work by workers in order to get higher pay or better working conditions |
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