Vocabulary
This was a a secret organization that helped slaves escape to freedom.
What is the underground railroad?
His invention of the cotton gin drove up the demand for enslaved workers in the South.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This battle turned the tide of the war in favor of the Union.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
He was elected as the president of the Confederacy even though he didn't want to be.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
It starts with, "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This type of place that John Brown tried to raid is where weapons and other military equipment are stored.
What is an arsenal?
This compromise tried to ensure the balance of free and slave states by allowing Missouri joined as a slave state and Maine joined as free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Under Grant's command, the Union was able to gain control of the Mississippi after this victory.
What is the victory (siege) at Vicksburg?
This Southern general surprised the Fighting Joe Hooker and the Union at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this book showed the cruelty of slavery, angering Northerns and creating more tension between North and South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This is a military strategy aimed at preventing people and goods from entering or leaving an area that was used in the Anaconda Plan?
What is a blockade?
This free black man was sent back to slavery after this 1857 ruling that he had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."
Who is Dred Scott?
Although they lost a lot of men, the Confederates were able to stop the Union from invading Richmond after these battles.
What are the Seven Days Battles?
Under General Lee's orders, he ordered his men to attack the middle of the Union line on the last day at Gettysburg.
Who is General Pickett?
She was a Confederate spy who managed to live in Washington DC just a few blocks from the White House!
Who is Rose O'Neal Greenhow?
This term meaning the act of setting someone free was what Northerns and enslaved workers were hoping for if the Union won.
What is emancipation?
John Brown and a group of abolitionists attacked an arsenal in this town to try to start a slave rebellion.
What is Harpers Ferry?
McClellan and Lee faced off in this bloody and deadly battle which was enough of a victory for Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
He was the general behind the anaconda plan.
Who is Winfield Scott?
Separating the slave state of Maryland from the free state of Pennsylvania, this line divided the free and slaves states.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
These are rights that all citizens are supposed to have according to the Constitution and its amendments.
What are Civil Rights?
This compromise admitted California as a free state, but also enacted the fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This lucky victory in Tennessee convinced President Lincoln to make Grant the Commander of the entire Union army.
What is the battle of Chattanooga?
This slave took control of the Confederate ship "Planter" and sailed it to freedom.
Who is Robert Smalls?
After finding this wooden ship, the Confederate navy attached iron to its sides and renamed it the Virginia.
What is the Merrimac?