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Civil War
Lilli's Civil War Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the primary industries of the North and South? | Factories/Cotton Plantations |
| What is an abolitionist? | People who wanted to end slavery now |
| Name 2 Famous Abolitionists (William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglas) and their effect on the anti-slavery movement: | Authors, spokespeople |
| What was the Underground Railroad? | A series of houses to help slaves runaway |
| Who was the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad who was a former slave? | Harriet Tubman |
| Compare and contrast differences between the North and the South: | North - Urban/factories and South -Rural/plantations |
| What was the Fugitive Slave Law? | Any slave that escaped had to go back |
| Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe? | The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Who first suggested for the South to secede? | John C. Calhoun |
| What does it mean to secede? | Break away |
| What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | Repealed the Missouri Compromise |
| Who was Dred Scott and what were the results of his trial? | Officer of the US Army, slave, trial was not successful |
| What was John Brown's plan? | To attack the arsenal at Harpers Ferry (failed) |
| Who won the election of 1860? | Lincoln |
| Where were the first shots fired in the Civil War? | Fort Sumter |
| Where was the first land battle of the Civil War and who won the battle? | Bull Run - Confederate Army won |
| What was the name of Winfield Scott's plan and what did it propose? | Anaconda plan - proposed strategy for subduing seceding states |
| What was the Emancipation Proclamation? | A paper that Lincoln made to free slavery |
| Wo was the General for the Union Army? Confederate? | Grant/Lee |
| Who was stonewall Jackson and why do we remember him today? | General for confederate army - His death was a huge blow to the confederate army and a boost to the Union & General Lee |
| What was the formal name the confederacy gave to their newly formed nation? | Confederate States of America |
| Who was its president? | Jefferson Davis |
| Who was the founder of the American Red Cross? | Clara Barton |
| Why was the battle of Gettysburg so significant? | Turning point |
| Who won the Civil War | Union |
| Who assassinated President Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth |
| What did the 14th amendment state? | Defines the rights of Citizens & voting rights |
| abolitionist | A person opposed to slavery and in favor of ending it right away |
| arsenal | a building where weapons are stored |
| blockade | a military strategy that aims to cut off supplies going in and out of an area |
| compromise | a settlement of difference between two or more sides reached by each side giving up some of what it wanted |
| fugitive | one who flees or tries to escape |
| urban | having to do with cities or towns |
| rural | having to do with the countryside and agriccure |
| secede | to withdraw formally from an organization or a nation |
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