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Civil War terms
forth grade Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Civil War | Civilian War or Citizen War |
| North | industrial- factories —small farms- big cites |
| South | large plantations - King cotton |
| Territory | an area of land that belongs to a government |
| Abolitionist | person 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 imagine line from the east to west though 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 State Law | pass in congress that required police in free states to help capture escaping slaves |
| Uncle Toms Cabin | a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that made the people understand the atrocities of slavery.The book protested the Fugitive State Law -sold 3,000 |
| Underground Railroad | a net work 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 story believer in no slavery he raided the town of Harper's Ferry- captured the U.S arsenel |
| John Brown 2 | Freed slaves and captured plantation 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 wether there should be slavery in Kansas or not |
| Missouri Compromise of 1850 | Allowing the people in the territories to deiced slavery for themselves and obtaining the Norths agreement to obey The Fugitive Slave Law |
| Martyr | a person dies or goes to jail for a cause |
| Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court Decision that says slaves were Private Property |
| Northern | U.S.A- Union blue Abe lincoln Pres.(Washington capitol ) |
| Sothern | C.S.A Confederate -gray -Jefferson Davis -Pres.Richmond ,Va (capital) -100 miles apart |
| November 6,1860 | Lincoln elected as present -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 S.C- First shots by theConfederates |
| Secede | to brake away from a group |
| Facts on Battles | All Cilil 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 | January 1,1836- President Lincoln declared that all slaves were free man |
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