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Civil War
4th 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 | 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 Compermise | a law passed by congress created an imaginary line from the East to the 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 people understand the atrocities of slavery.The book protested the Fugitive slave law-sold 3,000 |
| Under Ground Railroad | a network of people who would risk breaking the law to hide runaway slaves |
| John Brown | held a gun in one hand and the Bible in the other.A strong believer in no slavery and he raided the town of Harper's Ferry-captured the U.S arsenal.freed slaves and captured plantation owners-Robert E lee captured him. |
| John Brown 2 | he was hanged and was known as a Martyr for the North. |
| Bleeding Kansas | many people died in fighting whether there should be slaver in Kansas or not |
| Missouri Compromise of 1850 | Allowing people in there territories to decide slavery for themselves and obtaining the North's |
| Martyr | a person dies for a cause |
| Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court decision that said slaves were private property |
| Northern | U.S.A-union-blue Abe Lincoln pres.(Washington D.C-capital |
| Southern | C.S.A Confederent-gray-Jefferson Davis -pres.Richmond,Va (capitil)-100 miles apart |
| November 6, 1860 | Lincoln elected as presedent -close race |
| December 22, 1860 | South Carolina secceded from the Union and 8 more states followed |
| March 4,1861 | Linoln took office |
| April 12, 1860 | Civil War began at fort Sumter in 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 exept for two.North named its battles after a stream or run-South named it after the nerist town |
| merrimac | South Ironclad ship |
| Monitor | North Ironclad ship |
| Emancipation Proclamation | january 1,1863-President Linlon declared that all slaves were free men |
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