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