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Where did the Union Pacific Company begin laying its tracks?
Omaha, Nebraska
after the Union won at the ____________, the North now controlled the Mississippi River & split the Confederacy in half
Battle of Vicksberg
What vice president became President after Abrahman Lincoln was killed
Andrew Johnson
What is a settlement called in which each side gives up some of its demands to reach an agreement
Compromise
Black Founder of Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
Where did the Central Pacific Company begin laying its tracks?
Sacramento, California
what were the results (issues settled) after the Civil War ended
no state could leave the union; slavery was not allowed in the U.S.A
What legislation said that no other state north of an established boundary could enter the Union as a slave state
Missouri Compromise
What is the name of the 22 Northern or Western States during the Civil War
Confederacy
general Lee's most valuable assistants
"Stonewall" Jackson
the Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
founder of the American Red Cross
Abraham Lincoln's killer
Lee Harvey Oswald
What is the Underground railroad
A system of secret escape routed used by escaping slaves to reach freedom
Commander of the Union troops
Ulysses S. Grant
What railroad was built to connect the East with the West
Transcontinental Railroad
the Union built an ironclad ship called the___________
Monitor
16th president of the United States
black American Union soldier who rescued the “Stars and Stripes” from a wounded color sergeant in the Battle of Fort
William Harvey Carney
The inventor of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
the mail route between St Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, whose carriers travel by horseback
Pony Express
Taxes placed on foreign goods by the federal government
Tariffs
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Who was Robert E. Lee
commander of the confederate army
one of the most famous leaders of the underground railroad
Harriot Tubman