Lesson 1: Struggles Over Slavery
This is the vocabulary term which refers to "big farms where many people lived".
What is a plantation?
This is the vocabulary word for "a barrier of troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in and out of an area".
What is a blockade?
This is the vocabulary term which means "setting free".
What is "emancipation"?
This is the vocabulary term for "a military blockade designed to make a city surrender".
What is a "siege"?
This is the vocabulary term for "the rebuilding and healing of the country" following the Civil War?
What is Reconstruction?
This is the vocabulary term which "was an organized, secret system to help enslaved African Americans escape, mostly to the North or to Canada".
What is the Underground Railroad?
This was the President of the United States of America during the Civil War.
Who was President Abraham Lincoln?
This is the term which means "an official announcement".
What is a "proclamation"?
This is the name of the speech which President Lincoln gave in 1863 which began with "Four score and seven years ago our fathers Brough forth upon this continent a new nation."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This is the vocabulary term for the "system in which someone who owns land lets someone else rent the land to farm".
What is sharecropping?
These were the people who wanted to abolish, or get rid of, slavery. Some examples would be William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.
Who were abolitionists?
This was the name of the plan which Abraham Lincoln had urging eh Civil War. He and military leaders planned to squeeze the Confederacy like a huge snake.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
This is the day which African Americans in Texas celebrated their day of freedom. This tradition is now celebrated this day.
What is Juneteenth?
True or false: The Civil War was the most destructive war in our history.
True!
This is the term for the separation of people, usually by race. Even after the Civil War, this still occurred in schools, hospitals, theaters, railroad cards, and even whole towns!
What is segregation?
This is the name which the southern states took on which means "joined together" when they broke away, or seceded, from the Union.
What is the Confederacy?
This was the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who as Jefferson Davis?
True or False: Women worked as spies during the Civil War.
True!
True or false: The Civil War helps the nation's economy.
False! Towns, farms, and industries in the south were ruined. Factories in the North that had relied on Southern cotton were in trouble.
This was the law passed in the south which "denied African American men the right to vote". It was also a vocabulary term in this chapter!
What were the "Black Codes"?
This is the year which the Republic of Texas was annexed (united or joined) to the United States.
What is 1845?
This was the bloodiest battle of the entire Civil War. It also was a turning point which began to show victories for the Union. It took place on September 17, 1862.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
This was the photographer who was made famous for taking pictures during the Civil War. Hint: a picture of him as well as one of his photographs was shown in our book!
Who was Mathew Brady?
This is the name for Sherman's approach. He wanted to destroy the South economically, so it could no longer support an army.
What is total war?
This is the vocabulary term for "the brining of charges of wrongdoing against an elected official by the House of Representatives.
What is impeachment?