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The person who led a raid on a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, intending to provoke a slave revolt.
Who is John Brown
The republican who won the election in 1860 without electoral votes?
Who is Abraham Lincoln
The army that had 25,000 Texans in 1861.
Who is The Confederate Army
The capital of the Confederacy that that union planed on capturing.
Where is Richmond, Virginia
The battle that the Confederate forces stopped the advance at the _____
First Battle of Bull Run
Under this argument states power was greater then federal.
What is states’ rights argument
The confederate president that welcomed Texas troops in 1861.
Who is Jefferson Davis
The person who organized Terry’s Texas Rangers, a cavalry unit organized by ___.
Who is B. F. Terry
The resource that helped transport troops and supplies for the north.
What are Railroads
The Union General that gained the upper hand in April 1862 in the Battle of Shiloh.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
A novel that greatly increased support for the abolition movement.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The form of government created by the representatives from the seceding states.
What is the Confederacy
The battle at ____ marked the beginning of the Civil War
Where is Fort Sumter
The act of with holding cotton from Britain in hopes of forcing them to help
What is Cotton Diplomacy
The battle that was an important Union victory.
What is the Battle of Antietam
The compromise that prohibited slavery north of the 36°30´N line.
What is the 1820 Missouri Compromise
To ____ or formally withdraw
What is Secede
The leader of Ross’s Texas Brigade who fought in Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
Who is Lawrence “Sul” Ross
The blockade used to cut off southern seaports and prevent the Confederacy from importing war supplies.
What is a Naval Blockade
Ships that are heavily armored with armored plates.
What are Ironclads
The decision that African Americans were not citizens and could not sue in court
What is the Dred Scott decision
The date Texas became the seventh state to secede from the United States.
What is March 2, 1861
In February 1861 a force led by _____ surrounded the U.S. commander’s headquarters in San Antonio. U.S. Army general David E. Twiggs quickly surrendered all federal property in Texas.
Who is Ben McCulloch
The navel blockade eventually extended from Virginia to Florida on the Atlantic coast and from Florida to ____
What is the Atlantic/Texas Gulf Coast
In late September 1862 General _____'s army clashed with a Union force in Maryland.
Who is Robert E. Lee
The act that allowed the Kansas and Nebraska Territories to decide whether to be free or slave states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The people who wanted to stay in the Union and work out differences over slavery.
Who are the Unionists
B. F. Terry, fought in battles throughout the Civil War under the command of___.
Who is John Bell Hood
The amount of Texans serving in the Confederate army that were in the cavalry.
What is Two Thirds
The battle that gave Ulysses S. Grant the upper hand.
What is the battle of Shiloh
The type of state that Texas entered the Union as.
What is a Slave State
The group that the delegates voted 166 to 8 to leave
What is The Union
The proper name for units of around 1,000 soldiers
What are Regiment
Three regions of war or ___
What is Three Theater
The ___ battle was a turning point—Lee was on the defensive for the rest of the war
What is The Battle of Gettysburg