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History Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fort Sumter | April 1861, First shots of Civil War fired at Ft Sumter, causing Union Major Robert Anderson and his troops to surrender to the Confederacy. Confederacy Wins. |
| Appomattox Court House | April 1865, Union General Grant's troops take control of Confederate capital (Richmond, VA) - Confederate army retreat. Union Wins |
| Fort Wagner | July 1863, Union tried to take the Fort in order to take back Fort Sumter. Without Fort Sumter, they wouldn't be able to take Charleston (heart of South Carolina). Confederacy Wins. |
| Bleeding Kansas | Violent acts were happening in Kansas |
| Confederacy | Southern states that broke away from the Union after Lincoln was elected |
| 13th Amendment | prohibited slavery (December 1865) |
| 14th Amendment | guarantees citizenship and legal; protection for all individuals starting in 1868 |
| 15th Amendment | Gave African American men voting rights in 1870 |
| Republican Party | founded in 1854, political party dedicated to fighting the expansion of slavery |
| Secession | the act of formally withdrawing in order to become independent |
| Segregation | the separation of people based on race |
| Fugitive Slave Act | any enslaved person who escaped to the North was not considered free and had to be returned to the South |
| Harpers Ferry Raid | John Brown attempted to start a slave revolt |
| Election of 1860 | Abraham Lincoln became President |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican nominee, turned 16th president of the U.S. Led the U.S in the civil war, tried to reunite the country and end slavery. |
| Major Anderson | Union Officer |
| General Lee | Leader that led the confederacy army through many battles yet surrendered to the union at the Appomattox Court House |
| Post-War South | Many cities were destroyed and millions of Slaves were collapsed |
| Roger Taney | Stated that enslaved people didn't have the right to the legal system as they were properly, not people |
| Dred Scott | Enslaved man who sued for his freedom - Court case influenced how enslaved people were seen and treated by the justice system in the U.S. |
| John Brown | Abolitionist who led men to the Pottawatomie Creek massacre and the Harpers ferry Raid. Tried to trigger a slave revolt and create an army of emancipation |
| Popular Sovereignty | The idea that the resident of a region or nation decide an issue by voting. |
| Slavery | A social system in which human beings take complete control of others - Southern economy was based on this. |