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Gr 6 Hist Ch 10
Gr 6 History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cotton gin | a machine that removed seeds from cotton quickly, making cotton a valuable crop in the South |
| abolitionist | person who worked to outlaw slavery |
| compromise | a decision that tries to satisfy both sides of an arguments |
| tariff | taxes placed on foreign goods by the federal government |
| ironclad | ship covered with iron plates |
| transcontinental railroad | railroad built to connect the East with the West |
| Underground Railroad | the secret network of escape routes and hiding places between the southern states and Canada |
| Missouri Compromise | legislation passed which said that no other state north of an established boundary could enter the Union as a slave state |
| Union | the name of the twenty-two northern or western states during the Civil War |
| Confederate States of America (Confederacy) | the name of the eleven southern states that separated from the Union during the Civil War |
| Emancipation Proclamation | announcement made by President Lincoln which stated that all slaves would be considered free in any state fighting against the Union |
| 1) no state could leave the Union; 2) there would be no more slavery in the United States | name the two direct results of the Civil War |
| Pony Express | the mail route between St. Joseph, MO, and Sacramento, CA, whose carriers traveled on horseback |
| Tuskegee Institute | school started by Booker T. Washington in Alabama |
| Fort Sumter | first battle of the Civil War; was won by the Confederates |
| Merrimac and Monitor | battle of the ironclads; one fought to break through the Union blockade and the other fought to stop her |
| Battle of Bull Run | battle where Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname |
| Battle of Gettysburg | turning point of the Civil War; won by Union |
| Battle of Vicksburg | cut the South in two by giving the North control of the Mississippi River |
| Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin |
| Sojourner Truth | a freed black slave and abolitionist |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | abolitionist and author or Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Harriet Tubman | an escaped slave and one of the most famous leaders of the Underground Railroad |
| Frederick Douglass | black abolitionist who helped recruit blacks for the Union army |
| Clara Barton | "Angel of the Battlefield" and founder of the American Red Cross |
| Booker T. Washington | black educator and founder of Tuskegee Institute; author of Up from Slavery |
| George Washington Carver | black botanist who encouraged farmers to diversify their crops and helped restore the South to prosperity his laboratory became known as "God's Little Workshop" |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President; President during the Civil War |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Democrat who ran against Lincoln for senator |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederate States of America |
| William Harvey Carney | said, "The old flag never touched the ground." |
| Ulysses S. Grant | leader of the union troops who was victorious at Vicksburg |
| Robert E. Lee | head of the Confederate army |
| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | General Lee's most valuable assistant and one of the greatest military heroes of the Civil War |
| William T. Sherman | Union general who captured Atlanta and "marched to the sea" |
| John Wilkes Booth | actor who assassinated President Lincoln |
| Andrew Johnson | Vice President who became President after Lincoln's death |
| Richmond, Virginia | capital of the Confederate States of America |
| Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia | where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War |
| Omaha, Nebraska | Union Pacific Railroad began here |
| Sacramento, California | Central Pacific Railroad began here |
| Promontory Point, Utah | place where the two railroads met, completing the transcontinental railroad |
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