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USVA SOL

SOL 7a-7c: The Civil War

TermDefinition
Tariffs; expansion of slavery; states rights List three sectional disagreements leading to the Civil War (T., E. of S., S.R.)
Abolitionists People who fought to end slavery
Dred Scott Case Supreme Court decision; Former slave sues for freedom and loses; slavery could not be banned anywhere
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery book about the conditions of slavery in South; this book helped instigate the Civil War.
Failed The compromises of the 1850s ________________ to prevent the Civil War.
Election of 1860 Lincoln is inaugurated; South Carolina then secedes, followed by several southern states who feared he would abolish slavery.
Fort Sumter Opening confrontation of the Civil War.
Antietam Emancipation Proclamation was issued after this battle, making abolitionism a clear war aim.
Gettysburg Turning point of Civil War
Appomattox Court House Site of Lee's surrender to Grant, ending the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln President during the Civil War; insisted on using force if necessary to hold the union together.
Jefferson Davis U.S. senator who became president of the Confederate States of America.
Ulysses S. Grant Most successful Union military commander; forced Lee's surrender at Appomattox
Robert E. Lee Confederate general of the Army of Northern Virginia; urged South to accept defeat after Appomattox
Frederick Douglass Former slave; encouraged Lincoln to enlist African American soldiers.
Emancipation Proclamation This freed the slaves in rebelling states, making abolition a clear war aim; also discouraged interference of foreign governments, and encouraged African Americans to join Union army
Gettysburg Address Lincoln describes the Civil War as a struggle to preserve a nation that was dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal"; says that the U.S. is one nation, not a collection of sovereign states.
African Americans The Emancipation Proclamation encouraged _____________ to join the Union Army
Secession Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation.
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