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Smith Nebo Civil War
Civil War Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Maine entered the Union as a free state; Missouri entered as a slave state | Compromise of 1820 |
document that declared freedom for all slaves | Emancipation Proclamation |
the general that led the Confederate Army | Robert E Lee |
strategy meant to destroy all resources in the South | total war |
published the Liberator | WIlliam Lloyd Garrison |
President of Confederacy | Jefferson Davis |
large farms that raise cash crops | plantations |
gave the Gettysburg Address | Abe Lincoln |
established during reconstruction to provide food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites | Freedman's Bureau |
African who led slave revolt in Va | Nat Turner |
teacher at Tuskegee Institute and taught how to grow new crops; discovered 300 ways to use peanuts | George Washington Carver |
established the Red Cross | Clara Barton |
Slave who sued for freedom because he had once lived in a free state with his master | Dred Scott |
most successful Union General | U. S. Grant |
the murder of an important leader | assassination |
period of time when the South rejoined the Union | Reconstruction |
to leave the army without permission | desert |
charge a government official with a crime | impeach |
nickname for laws that kept African Americans separate | Jim Crow Laws |
forced separation of the races | segregation |
opened Tuskegee Institute in Al for the college education of African Americans | Booker T. Washington |
amendment that freed the slaves | Amendment 13 |
system of farming in which a tenant pays a share of the crops as rent to the landowner | sharecropping |
secret organization formed to threaten, beat, and kill African Americans to keep them from voting. | Ku Klux Klan |
gave Black Americans rights as citizens; afforded everyone due process of the law | Amendment 14 |
gave all men the right to vote regardless of color or race | Amendment 15 |
region that had the largest population of Africans | South |
contained many factories and industries | North |
was largely an agricultural area with economy depending on cash crops | South |
This region opposed slavery | North |
Most of its population opposed Lincoln's election | South |
assassinated Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth |
sisters whose parents owned slaves but were abolitionists that spoke out against slavery | Grimke Sisters |
Escaped slave who served as a conductor on the Underground Railroad; responsible for helping over 300 slaves escape | Harriet Tubman |
a collection of routes to help slaves escape the South | Underground Railroad |
Southerner who worked with the government during Reconstruction | scalawags |
Northerners who came to the south to take advantage of the destruction and rebuilding of the South | carpetbaggers |
The first battle of the Civil War | The first Battle of Bull Run |
Lincoln's objective in the beginning was not slavery but..... | to keep the Union together |
The turning point of the war | Battle of Gettsyburg |
strategy to cut off all supplies in the west and along the coast line by using blockades | Anaconda Plan |
a place where slaves were sold to the highest bidder | slave auction |
the owner of the plantation was referred to by the slaves as | master |
the man who was in charge of the slaves on a daily basis was | the overseer |
a term used to refer to Confederate soldiers | Rebel |
A term used to refer to Union soldiers | Yankee |
soldiers on horseback | calvary |
soldiers on foot | infantry |
term used to include weapons, cannon, etc. | artillary |
a sword-like tool mounted on a rifle | bayonet |
a small sack carried on a soldiers body used for supplies | knapsack |
for the frontline of soldiers to fall back in a battle | retreat |
the attempt of ships to prevent others from coming into ports to deliver supplies | blockade |
a common disease among soldiers caused by a mosquito bite | malaria |
a soldier who has been injured, killed, or missing in action | casualty |
searching for food and other means of survival | |
ammunition used in a cannon | mortar |
a secret organization formed to intimidate African Americans to prevent them from voting and as a retaliation for unacceptable offenses | Ku Klux Klan |
to remove an injured limb from the body | amputate |
a cake or bread made from cornmeal and water | johnnycake |
a hard, saltless biscuit | hardtack |
The withdrawal of states from the Union | secession |
a person who studies history | historian |
a warship, an ironclad ship used by the Confederates against the Monitor in 1862 in the first battle between ironclads in the Civil War | Merrimack |
book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that outraged the North when it explored the treatment of slaves in the South | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
to attempt to remove from political office | impeach |
a term used in a song that was sung by slaves referring to the Big Dipper | drinking gourd |