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Civil War
review for Civil War test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 through |
| 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 |
Created by:
Mrs. Zoeller