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Civil War Terms
4th grade social studies
Term | Definition |
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Civil War | civilian war or citizen war |
North | industrial- factories- small farms- big cities |
South | large plantations- king cotton |
Territory | an area of land that belongs to a government |
Abolitionist | persons who are against slavery |
Tariff | a tax on goods |
Cotton Gin | a machine invented by Eli Whitney that took seeds out of cotton |
Missouri Compromise of 1820 | a law passed by congress created an imaginary line from east to west through the Louisiana territory allowing slavery in some area and outlawing slavery in others |
State Rights (rats) | the belief that each state should be allowed to make its own decision about issues affecting it |
Fugitive Slave Law | passed in congress that required police in free states to help capture escaping slaves |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that made the people understand the atrocities of slavery. The book protested the Fugitive Slave Law- sold 3,000 |
Underground Railroad | a network of people who risk breaking the law to hide runaway slaves |
John Brown #1 | held a gun in one hand and a Bible in another. A strong believer in no slavery and he raided the town of Harper's Ferry- captured the U.S. arsenal |
John Brown #2 | freed slaves and captured plantations owners- Robert E. Lee captured him. He was hanged and was known as a Martyr for the North |
Bleeding Kansas | many people died in fighting whether there should be slavery in Kansas or not |
Missouri Compromise of 1850 | allowing the people in the territories to decide slavery for themselves and obtaining the North agreement to obey the Fugitive Slave Law |
Martyr | a person who dies or goes to jail for a cause |
Dred Scott Decision | supreme court decision that that said slaves were private property |
Northern | U.S.A.- Union- blue Abe Lincoln Pres. (Washington D.C. capital) |
Southern | C.S.A. Confederate- gray Jefferson Davis Pres. (Richmond, VA capital) 100 miles apart |
November 6, 1860 | Lincoln elected as president- close race |
December 22, 1860 | South Carolina seceded from the Union and 8 more states followed |
March 4, 1861 | Lincoln took office |
April 12, 1861 | civil war began at Fort Sumter in South Carolina- first shots by the confederates |
Secede | to break away from a group |
Facts on Battles | All civil war battles fought in the South except for two. North named its battles after a stream or a run- South named it after the nearest town |
Merrimac | South Ironclad ship |
Monitor | North Ironclad ship |
Emancipation Proclamation | January 1, 1863- president Lincoln declared that all slaves were free men |