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Civil War
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Question | Answer |
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Abolitionist | person who wanted to end slavery |
tariff | tax on imports |
plantation | large farm; relied on slave labor |
nickname for Union forces | Yankees |
Country that Confederacy thought would help them | Great Britain |
impeach | bring charges against a public official |
Merrimac & Monitor | early ironclad ships |
nickname for Northerners who went South during Reconstruction | Carpetbaggers |
another name for Battle of Bull Run | Manassas Junction |
Mason-Dixon line | boundary between slave and free states |
1865-1877 | Reconstruction |
Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves in Confederate States |
Underground Railroad | hide-outs to help slaves escape |
13th Amendment | law that abolished slavery |
14th Amendment | all people born in US have equal rights as citizens |
15th Amendment | gave black males the right to vote |
1st battle of Civil War | Battle of Bull Run |
Freedman's Bureau | purpose was to help slaves adjust to freedom |
turning point of the war | Battle of Gettysburg |
Compromise of 1820 | Maine entered Union as a free state & Missouri entered Union as a slave state |
Compromise of 1850 | California entered Union as free state, Fugitive Slave Law passed, slave trade banned in DC |
place where John Brown tried to led slave revolt at | Harper's Ferry, Virginia |
Name of slave who went to Supreme Court | Dred Scott |
Decision in Dred Scott Case | Scott was property and not a citizen of the US |
invention that increased the need for slaves | cotton gin |
Confederate capital | Richmond, Virginia |
Union capital | Washington D.C. |
Where Civil War began | Fort Sumter, South Carolina |
military leader offered command of Union army AND Confederate army | Robert E. Lee |
Robert E. Lee | commander of Confederate army |
location of General Robert E. Lee's surrender | Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia |
Lincoln's major goal during Civil War | keep the Union together |
border state | slave states that remained in the Union |
strengths of the Union | more railroads & industries |
strengths of the Confederacy | strong military leaders & believed in what they were fighting for |
political party formed to stop spread of slavery | Republican |
Years of Civil War | 1861-1865 |
cash crop | crop grown for sale/profit, not personal use |
side that fired opening shots of Civil War | Confederacy |
blockade | prevents supplies from getting throughq |
famous abolitionist novel | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
where most of the Civil War battles occured | South |
Union general known for use of total destruction through Georgia | Sherman |
Union President during Civil War | Abraham Lincoln |
President of Confederate States | Jefferson Davis |
assassinated president Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth |
famous conductor of Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
escaped slave and abolitionist writer | Frederick Douglass |
Lincoln's vice president | Andrew Johnson |