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Civil War Review-Gr7
Civil War Test Review- Clay 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 13th amendment | banned slavery; said all slaves were free |
| 14th amendment | made all freed slaves citizens of the U.S. |
| 15th amendment | gave freed slaves the right to vote |
| Fugitive Slave Law | said that runaway slaves could be recaptured by their owners even after they escaped to the North |
| Gettysburg Address | Lincoln's famous speech |
| Richmond, Virginia | Capital of the Confederate States of America |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Abraham Lincoln | President during the Civil War |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate general who was known for his bravery and being killed in battle |
| Reason for North to fight in the Civil War | To keep the country united and keep the South in the U.S.A |
| Reason for South to fight in the Civil War | to become independent and create their own, free country |
| Battle of Antietam | known as the turning point in the war and the bloodiest battle in American history that lasted 3 days |
| Battle of Vicksburg | this battle gave the North control of the Mississippi River |
| Battle at Gettysburg | battle where Picket's Charge took place |
| Appomattox | Name of the town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Lincoln and ended the Civil War |
| Battle of Bull Run | First battle of the war where the South easily won and the North realized they had underestimated the Confederates |
| Fort Sumter | Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired |
| Reconstruction | process of the US government readmitting Southern states back into the Union |
| Congress' opinion of Reconstruction | We should punish the South for the war |
| Lincoln's opinion of Reconstruction | We should forgive the South and help them rebuild |
| Johnson's opinion of Reconstruction | Same as Lincoln's opinion: we should forgive the South and help them rebuild |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners who rushed to the South after the war to help the freed slaves |
| scalawags | Southerners who sided with Northerners after the Civil War and were viewed as traitors |
| KKK (Ku Klux Klan) | a secret group that tried to keep freed slaves from gaining power after the Civil War |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | "Separate but Equal": Said segregation was legal |
| Mason-Dixon Line | Separated Northern and Southern states during the war |
| Border States | slave states that bordered states where slavery was illegal (Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, Missouri) |
| Dred Scott | a slave that sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court but lost when the court said that slaves were property of their owners |
| Harriet Tubman | a former slave that help other slaves escape to freedom in the "Underground Railroad" |
| John Brown | this northerner was responsible for the "Pottawatomie Massacre" and an attack on Harper's Ferry, VA |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the Cotton Gin and turned the South into the "Cotton Kingdom" |
| Kansas | a territory known for the first violence between the North and South even before the Civil War began: "Bleeding __________" |
| Republican | a political party that formed before the Civil War and is still around today |
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