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Civil War Terms
Fourth grade
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Civil War | Civillian war or Citizen war |
| North | Industrail- Factories- Small Farms -Big citys |
| South | Large plantantations - King Cotton |
| Territory | An area of land that belongs to the goverment |
| Abolitionist | People that who are against slavery |
| Tariff | A tax on goods |
| Cotton Gin | A machine invented by Eli Whitney that took seads out of cotton |
| Missouri Compermise of 1820 | A law passed by congress created an imaginary 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 alould to make its own decisions about issues affecting it |
| Fugitive slave laws | Passed in congress that required police in free states to help capture Escaping slaves |
| Uncle Toms Cabin | A book writen 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 would risk breaking the law to hide runaway slaves |
| John Brown 1 | Held a gun in one hand and a bible in the other.A strong beliver in no slavery and he raided the town of harper ferry |
| Dread Scott Decision | Supreme Court decision that said slaves were private property |
| Northern | U.S.A.-union-blue Abe Lincoln Pres. (Washington D.C -capitol) |
| Southern | C.S.A -confederate grey-Jefferson Davis-Pres.Richmond ,Va (capitol)-100 miles |
| November 6,1850 | -Lincoln elected as president-close race |
| Decmber 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 S.C-first shots by the confedrates |
| Secede | to break away from a group |
| facts on battles | All Civil War battles fought in the south except for two. North named its two battles after a stream run-South named it after the nerest town |
| Merrimac | South Ironclad ship |
| monitor | North Ironclad ship |
| Emancipation Proclamation | January 1,1863 -president Lincoln Declared that all slaves were free men |
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