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Civil War Terms
fourth grade unit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 goverment |
| Abolitionist | people who are against slavery |
| Teriff | a tax on goods |
| Cotton Gin | a machine invented by Eli Whitney that took seeds out of cotton |
| State Rights | 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 |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | a law passed by congress created an imaginary from east to west through the Luisiana territory |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 2 | allowing slavery in some area and outlawing slavery in others |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that made people understand the atrocities of slavery. The book protested the fugitive slave law - |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin 2 | sold 3,00 |
| Underground Railroad | a network of people who would risk breaking the law to hide runaway slaves |
| John Brown | held a gun in one hand and a Bible in another. A strong believer in no slavery and he raided the town of Harpers Ferry - captured the U.S. |
| John Brown 2 | arsenal, freed slaves and captured plantation owners - Robert E Lee captured him. He was hanged and 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's agreement to obey the fugitive slave law |
| Martyr | a person dies or goes to jail for a good cause |
| Dred Scott Decision | supreme court decision that said slaves were private property |
| Northern | U.S.A.-Union-blue Abraham Lincoln President (Washington D.C.-capitol |
| Southern | C.S.A Confederate -gray-Jefferson Davis-President Richmond, Virginia (capitol)-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 the S.C. - 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 it's battles after a stream or a run - South named it after the nearest |
| Facts on battles 2 | town |
| Merrimac | South Ironclad ship |
| Monitor | North Ironclad ship |
| Emancipation Proclomation | January 1, 1863 -President Lincoln declared that all slaves were free men |
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