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HVCS-Nikles Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Missouri Compromise | drew an imaginary line- anything north was free anything south was slave -MO-slave, ME free |
| Compromise of 1850 | CA-free - UT and NM territories stay neutral decide for themselves and the Fugitive Slave Law |
| Kansas- Nebraska Act | Kansas and Nebraska would decide if free or slave - led to Bleeding Kansas |
| Dred Scott Case | Scott not free- he is property - Congress can not make laws about slavery |
| Election of 1860 | Lincoln wins -7 southern states secede |
| Nat Turner and John Brown | led slave rebellions |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves in the seceded states |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Vicksburg | divided confederacy in two and gave Union control of the MS River |
| Gettysberg Address | speech given by Lincoln to dedicate cemetery and honor fallen soldiers |
| Henry Clay | wrote MO Compromise and Compromise of 1850 |
| Thirteenth Amendment | ended slavery in the U.S. |
| Reconstruction | period of rebuilding after the Civil War |
| Freedman Bureau | helped educate free slaves so they could read and write |
| Black Codes | laws that restricted Blacks from their basic freedoms |
| Robert E. Lee | Southern general that surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | General who led the Union to victory |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | led the March to the Sea through GA and SC destroying everything in the path |
| Andrew Johnson | President after Lincoln was killed |
| border states | KY,DE, MD, MO, WV |
| seceded states | SC, NC, MS, FL, GA, AL, LA, TX, AR, TN, VA |