Unit 8.
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Secession | to secede or withdrawal (Eleven states broke away or secede from the Union before the Civil War over the issues of states rights and slavery)
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| Union | States that remained united after the secession of eleven others. Commonly called "the North" or "the Free States" during the Civil War.
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| Confederacy | The eleven states that seceded from the Union before the Civil War.
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| Border States | The four states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. These states allowed for slavery, but did not withdrawal (secede) from the Union before the Civil War.
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| popular sovereignty | Giving people the power to decide issues in government.
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| topography | the study or description of surface features in a region including hills, mountains , valleys, rivers, ports and War- Ex. (High Ground at Gettysburg and Mississippi River at Vicksburg)
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| blockade | to isolate, close off, or surround a place such as a port.
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| cash crops | a crop that is heavily marketed for profit
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| Missouri Compromise (1820) | Missouri entered the Union as a slave state; Maine would enter the Union as a free state
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| The First Battle of Manassas | also called "Bun Run" and was the first MAJOR battle of the Civil War
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| Emancipation Proclamation | issued by Abraham Lincoln and made "freeing the slaves" the new focus of the war (Many African Americans joined the Union army as a result)
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| Battle of Vicksburg | divided the South and give the North control of the Mississippi River
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| Battle of Gettysburg | was the turning point of the Civil War as the North repelled Lee's invasion
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| Gettysburg Address | Given by Lincoln who said the war was to preserve a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people".
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| Appomattox Courthouse | where Lee surrendered to grant in 1865 to end the war
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| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United states during the Civil War who opposed the SPREAD of slavery and was determined to preserved the Union, by force if necessary.
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| Jefferson Davis |
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| Ulysses S. Grant | general of the Union army that defeated Robert E. Lee
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| Robert E. Lee | Leader of the Army in Northern Virginia (Confederate) who was offered full command of the Union forces at the beginning of the war.
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| Tomas "Stonewall" Jackson | a skilled Confederate general from Virginia
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| Clara Barton | a Civil War nurse who created the American Red Cross
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| Robert Smalls | An African American sailor and Union naval captain who was highly honored for his feats of bravery and heroin. He became a Congressman after the war
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