Terms to Know 1
A war between people in the same country
Civil War
States neither on the northern side or the southern
Border states
When a person is kept against their will to do work for someone.
Slavery.
A person assassinated a leader at the end of the war
John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
President during the war.
Northern/Free States
Union
Speech given by the president that helped free the slaves.
Emancipation Proclamation
Election of this person upset people who were for slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
This person surrendered, ending the war.
Robert E. Lee
Conductor on Underground Railroad; became a cook for the Union during the war.
Southern/Slave States
Confederacy
Person against slavery
Abolitionist
This compromise made Missouri a slave state, and Maine a free state.
Missouri Compromise
Bloodiest Battle
Gettysburg
Commanders of the North and South?
North: Ulysses S. Grant
South: Robert E. Lee
Equal rights; people are treated the same.
Equality
A tax on goods
Tariff
This issue was some states thinking the national government had too much power
State Rights VS Federal Rights
A secret network designed to help slaves escape to freedom.
BONUS: What were the leaders of this movement called?
Underground Railroad.
Bonus: Conductors.
Leader of the Abolitionist Movement
Frederick Douglass
To leave the country
Secede
Secret system slaves used to escape to freedom.
Underground Railroad
One was booming and the other was stalling between the north and south
Economies: Industry (north) VS Farming (south)
General Sherman's March to the Sea went through this state, destroying any farms, crops, or livestock along the way because in enemy territory.
Georgia
Was nurse during the war, and then created the American Red Cross in 1881.
Clara Barton