Chapter 11
Slaves were accustomed to the hot climate of the South because it was similar to the climate in which country?
Africa
The people who felt that slavery had to be ended immediately were called _____________.
Abolitionists
_____________________, was an active Abolitionist author.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Although Lincoln attended formal school for 18 months, he mostly _______________ himself.
homeschooled
The Confederate's First Battle of Manassas is the same as the Union's First Battle of ________________.
Bull Run
Chancellorsville is considered to be the greatest victory of General _____________________.
Robert E. Lee
The cotton gin took the ______ out of cotton.
seeds
The secret network that helped escaped slaves was called the _________________________.
Underground Railroad
The ______________________ Act of 1854 stated that the people would decide whether their territory would be a free or slave state.
Kansas-Nebraska
Because Lincoln tried very hard to do what was right and to treat everyone fairly, he was nicknamed "________________".
Honest Abe
Merchants from ________________ had become one of the South's biggest cotton buyers.
England
President Lincoln was disappointed in the leadership of General __________________ and had him replaced.
McClellan
Most slave owners treated their slaves how?
decently
California applied for statehood as a __________ state.
free
Armed gangs that tried to force the vote in Kansas became known as "_____________________".
Border Ruffians
The northwest part of Virginia remained in the Union and became the new state of __________________________.
West Virginia
The first Confederate ironclad warship was renamed Virginia, although we continue to call her ____________.
Merrimac
Although the ____________________________ freedom the slaves in Confederate-held territory, it did not end slavery.
Emancipation Proclamation
Slaves were owned by large ___________ owners.
plantation
___________________ is known as the Great Compromiser.
Henry Clay
The _____________________ Decision decreed that slaves were "property", with no rights and that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery.
Dred Scott
________________, only 90 miles from Washington, D. C., was the most industrial of all the Southern cities.
Richmond
The Union ironclad ______________ was much smaller and far more nimble than the Confederate warship.
Monitor
General _____________________ was accidentally shot by his own men at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Stonewall Jackson
By 1804, all Northern states had passed laws ____________ slavery.
doing away with/abolishing
The best-selling novel of the 19th century was ________________________.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
In 1854, the __________________ Party was formed to oppose the spread of slavery.
Republican
The Southern leaders planned to fight a _____________ war.
defensive
Admiral David Farragut captured the port city of ________________.
New Orleans
In Gettysburg, the Union Army was commanded by General _____________________.
George Meade
Talks where each candidate gives his side of an issue and tries to persuade those listening that his opinion is the correct one are called _______________.
debates
John Brown was captured by ____________________, and later convicted of treason and ___________.
Robert E. Lee, hanged
In February 1861, the Southern states that warned of breaking away became known as the _____________________ of ______________.
Confederate States of America
The North planned to use a ______________ to stop ships from entering and leaving Southern seaports.
blockade
The Southern states west of the Mississippi were known as the "___________________" of the South.
breadbasket
General William T. Sherman captured ___________________, burning everything in his path.
The federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry was seized by the Abolitionist ____________________ and his men.
John Brown
If Lincoln became president in 1860, the Southern states had warned they would _______________ from the Union.
break away/secede
The president of the Confederacy was ________________________.
Jefferson Davis
The North needed to capture Richmond, the Confederate ___________ .
capital
By capturing the key fort of _____________________, the Union planned to divide the South along the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
Lee surrendered to Grant at __________________, Virginia.
Appomatox Courthouse
Fort Sumter is located in the harbor of _______________, South Carolina.
Charleston
The Civil War began when _______________ fired his cannon on Fort Sumter.
General P. G. T. Beauregard
Slavery was finally abolished by the ratification of the ____________ the Amendment.
Thirteenth (13th)