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Who is President of the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
What river did the Battle of Vicksburg get control of?
This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River
What was the first great battle of the Civil war?
the Battle of Bull Run
What marked the beginning of the civil war?
the attack on Fort Sumter
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
Confederacy General
White Northern politicians who got rich by stealing from South
What is a carpetbagger?
What happened on April 14, 1865
What is the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
What were some reasons the South wanted to keep slavery?
They want to keep their cheap labor for farming on plantations, and they felt they were treating their slaves better than the workers in the Northern States.
Which side of the Civil War were called the Confederacy?
The Southern states that seceded from the United States
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Declared that slaves in the confederate states were free
They had factories, big cities and good roads and easy transportation
What is the North?
What was one major reason the Southern States seceded?
The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860
Who were white Southern politicians who believed they should obey the Reconstruction Act passed by Congress
What are Scalawags
He hacked 5 pro-slavery men to death in Kansas; he was caught and hung
Who is John Brown?
What side of the civil war called themselves the Union?
The Northern states that were still apart of the United States
What was the greatest advantage of the Union?
Abundant natural resources and manufacturing
What former Confederate soldiers had to give up and what they were allowed to keep
What is their guns and horses?
Who won the civil war?
Union- Blue Yankees of the North
What happened to the President of the North at the end of the civil war?
He was assasinated
Which side of the Civil War returned home to destruction and complete devastation of their homes, towns and farms?
What are the Confederates? or South?
Supreme Court decision said the slave that lived in a free state was not free because slaves as property and could not bring law suits
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Who gave the Gettysburg address?
President Abraham Lincoln
What does secede mean?
to break away from, to remove oneselve
When a nation fights itself it is called?
a civil war
Did the Confederate states elect their own president. make their own constitution, form their own army, and create their own money?
Yes
What did "states' rights" mean during the Civil War?
That a state should be able to choose whether they are a free or slave state.
What Constitutional Amendment officially ended slavery and had to be ratified in order for a southern state to rejoin the United States?
What is the 13th Amendment
What happened immediately after Lincoln was elected to President in 1860?
What is 7 states left the Union?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
A Mississippi senator that became the President of the Confederacy
What battle strategies did the Union take against the Confederacy? (hint most battles were fought in the Southeast)
They destroyed the major cities to break the morale of the Confederacy and make it difficult to trade goods and services.
What battle is considered the "turning point" of the war?
the Battle of Gettysburg
They had large farms, smaller cities, mild climate, few roads and short railroad routes
Who is the South?
What is an abolitionist?
A person who wants slaves to be freed.
True or False: The slaves in the border states of Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation
What is false
What is Richmond, Virginia?
What is the capital of the Confederacy?