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Chapter 7 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President, ended slavery with Emancipation Proclamation, killed by John Wilkes Booth |
| George Meade | led the Union soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg |
| Robert E Lee | Confederate general in Civil War |
| Harriet Tubman | was a former slave who was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, led many slaves to freedom |
| Fort Sumter | Northern fort in South Carolina, first shot of the Civil War was fired |
| Battle of Gettysburg | turning point of the Civil War, Union victory pushed the Confederate Army south |
| Union | Northern Army, nicknamed the Yankees, wore blue |
| Confederacy | Southern Army, nicknamed Rebels, wore grey |
| Slavery | one reason for the Civil War, it was the condition of one person being owned by another person, in 1780 Pennsylvania made it illegal to own a slave |
| Secede | to leave, 11 states seceded from the Union |
| Jefferson Davis | became President of the southern states |
| Underground Railroad | a system of secret routes through which people helped slaves escape to freedom |
| Conductor | someone who led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad |
| Passenger | someone who tried to escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad |
| Station | a safe place that passengers stay at on the Underground Railroad |
| Abolition | the ending of slavery |
| Gettysburg Address | November 19, 1863 President Lincoln delivered this speech at the Gettysburg Battlefield & made it a national cemetery |
| Ulysses S Grant | Northern General who Robert E Lee surrendered to at Appomattox |
| Thaddeus Stevens | said "the blessings of education shall be carried home to the poorest child" |
| Clara Barton | Founded the American Red Cross |
| Henry Clay Frick | owned most of Pennsylvania's coke ovens in 1885 |
| John Wanamaker | opened the first department store in Philadelphia |
| Frank Woolworth | opened the first "Five and Dime" store in Lancaster |
| Andrew Carnegie | Steel King, became wealthy in the steel industry |
| Technology | the use of skills, ideas, and tools to meet people's needs |
| Invention | a newly created product |
| Union | an organization formed by workers joined together to ask for better pay and working conditions |
| Johnstown | place where one of the United States word floods happened in 1889 |
| Oxford | the Ashmun Institute opened here in 1854, it is the oldest African American college in the United States still in operation |
| Strike | the stopping of work by workers in order to get higher pay or better working conditions |
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