Vocabulary
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Agreement to keep the slave and free states equal.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln freeing slaves in the confederacy.
In the Missouri Compromise, which state was to be the free state? Missouri or Maine
Maine
What was the first state to secede?
South Carolina
What was total war?
Striking not just military targets, but civilian targets as well.
What was popular sovereignty?
Each territory can decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery.
Who was the Union President during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
What do abolitionists want?
No slavery anywhere!
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Outlawed slavery in the United States.
What does it mean to secede?
To withdraw membership from a group.
Who was the Confederate (Southern) General?
Robert E. Lee
What as the Fugitive Slave Act?
Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves. People who let fugitives escape could be fined $1,000 and jailed.
What group had advantages of a larger population, industry, railroads, and a navy? Union or Confederacy
Union
Where was the surrender of the Civil War?
Appomattox Court House, VA
What is a civil war?
War between people of the same country.
Who was the Union (Northern) General?
Ulysses S. Grant
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What role did woman play in the Civil War?
Took control of farms and businesses, went to war with their husbands, spies, guides, and nurses.
Why would Lee burn Richmond if it was the South's capital and he was a southern general?
He didn't want the Union to have it.
What is a border state?
Slave state the remained in the union.
Who was the Confederate President?
Jefferson Davis
What was the final breaking point for the South to secede?
Abraham Lincoln becoming president.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
The Union would blockade southern ports and then drive southward along the Mississippi to split the Confederacy in two.
What happened to Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre?
He was assassinated.