Vocab
Freed the slaves in states at war with the Union
Emancipation Proclamation
First battle of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison were part of what movement to end slavery?
Abolition
True or False: Women fought in the Civil War
True
Military on horseback
Cavalry
The turning point of the Civil War, a three day battle in July 1863
Gettysburg
This Union general was fired for being too cautious and slow
McClellan
The economies of the North and South were different because...
North is industrialized and South is plantation/farming
What was the cracker like food most soldiers had to soften in their coffee made of flour, water and a pinch of salt
Hardtack
Amendment that allowed men of all races to vote
15th
Also known as Sharpsburg, fought in 1862, a Union victory in the bloodiest one day battle that led to Lincoln giving Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
What book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the evils of slavery?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What did the 13th amendment do?
Abolish slavery everywhere
Political, economic, and social differences between the North and the South prior to 1860
Sectional Differences
This 1863 battle split the Confederacy in half and gave the Union control of the Mississippi
Vicksburg
Who made 19 trips to the South to help slaves escape and worked as a spy for Lincoln?
Harriet Tubman
Why was the South so upset with Lincoln's election?
He received no electoral votes from the South
What was the all black regiment featured in the movie Glory called? (# and state)
54 Massachusetts
Union plan to destroy the South's rail lines, farms and factories from Atlanta to Savannah to weaken them into surrender
Sherman's March to the Sea
Lee's perfect battle in 1863 actually ended with Stonewall Jackson losing his arm and heavy Confederate losses
Chancellorsville
What group in Congress criticized the Presidents plan for Reconstruction as too lenient on the South?
Radical Republicans
In the Compromise of 1820 which was a free state and which was a slave state?
Maine free and Missouri a slave state
What system during Reconstruction was like slavery with tenant farmers renting land, tools from former slave owners often going into debt
Sharecropping