Holzshu Civil War Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Slavery | divided the nation |
| The North was mainly | urban society in which people held jobs in cities. |
| The South was | agricultural society. |
| Southerners lived | on farms and plantations. |
| The North was a | manufacturing region. |
| Northerners favored | tariffs. |
| Southerners opposed tariffs that would cause | prices of manufactured goods to increase. |
| Planters were concerned that Great Britain might | stop buying cotton from the South. |
| Southerners believed that | they had the power to declare any national law illegal. |
| Northerners believed that | the national government’s power was supreme over that of the states. |
| Southerners felt that the abolition of slavery would | destroy their region’s economy. |
| Northerners believed that slavery should be abolished | for moral reasons. |
| Missouri Compromise (1820): | Missouri entered the Union as a slave state; Maine entered the Union as a free state. |
| Compromise of l850: | California entered the Union as a free state. Southwest territories would decide the slavery issue for themselves. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act: | People in each state would decide the slavery issue (“popular sovereignty”). |
| popular sovereignty | People decide the issue of slavery by way of a vote. |
| Following Lincoln’s election, | the southern states seceded from the Union. |
| Confederate forces attacked _______in South Carolina, | Fort Sumter |
| Lincoln and many Northerners believed that | the United States was one nation that could not be separated or divided. |
| Most Southerners believed that the states had freely joined the union and could | freely leave it. |
| Border states (slave states) | Slave states that did NOT fight against the Union. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Was president of the United States who opposed the spread of slavery. |
| The Emancipation Proclamation | was Lincoln's speech that freed the slaves. |
| The Gettysburg Address said | the Civil War was to preserve a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” |
| Jefferson Davis | was president of the Confederate States of America |
| Ulysses S. Grant | was general of the Union army that defeated Lee |
| Robert E. Lee | was leader of the Army of Northern Virginia who was offered command of the Union forces, but chose not to fight against Virginia |
| Lee opposed secession, but did not believe | the Union should be held together by force |
| Lee Urged Southerners to accept defeat at the end of the war | when some wanted to fight on |
| Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson | Was a skilled Confederate general from Virginia |
| Frederick Douglass | Was an enslaved African American who escaped to the North and became an abolitionist |
| The firing on Fort Sumter, S.C., | began the war. |
| The first Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) was | the first major battle. |
| The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation made “freeing the slaves” | the new focus of the war. |
| Many freed African Americans | joined the Union army. |
| The Battle of Vicksburg | allowed the North to control the Mississippi River. |
| The Battle of Gettysburg was | the turning point of the war; |
| the North repelled | Lee’s invasion of the North. |
| Lee’s surrender to Grant at | Appomattox Court House in 1865 ended the war. |
| The Union blockade | of southern ports (e.g., Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans) |
| The Southern capital city. | Richmond |
| As the war went on, Southern troops became | increasingly younger and more poorly equipped and clothed. |
| Much of the South was devastated at the end of the war | (e.g., burning of Atlanta and Richmond). |
| The major killer of the war. | Disease |
| Clara Barton, | a Civil War nurse, created the American Red Cross. |
| The collapse of the Confederacy made | Confederate money worthless. |
| African Americans fought | in both the Confederate and Union armies. |
| African American soldiers were paid | less than white soldiers. |
| African American soldiers were discriminated against and served | in segregated units under the command of white officers. |
| Robert Smalls, | an African American sailor and later a Union naval captain, was highly honored for his feats of bravery and heroism. |
| This African American hero became a _______after the war. | congressman |
| Large cities, heavy manufacturing, large population. | urban |
| Farms & Plantations, agricultural, small population. | rural |
| Color of the Union | blue |
| Color of the Confederates | grey |
| Nickname of the Union soldiers | yankees |
| Nickname of the Confederate soldiers | rebels |
| The Northern capital city. | Washington, D.C. |
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