Midterm (Unit 3)

Vocab

100

The name of the new country the Southern states created

Confederacy

200

tax on foreign imports

tariff

300

to break away or leave the Union

Secede

400

giving the people the power to make a decision through voting

popular sovereignty

500

to cancel a law

nullify

Events

100

The turning point of the Civil War

Gettysburg

200

How did the Civil War begin?

when the Southerners attacked the Union at Fort Sumter in SC

300

Where did Lee surrender to Grant to end the war?

Appomattox Court House

400

Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation after which battle?

Antietam

500

Which compromise led to "Bleeding Kansas?"

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Leaders

100

This person was the president of the Union during the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln

200

This person was the most successful Southern general in the Civil War.

Robert E. Lee

300

This person was the most successful Northern general in the Civil War.

Ulysses S. Grant

400

This person was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Jefferson Davis

500

This person led the March to the Sea destroying everything in his path.

William T. Sherman

Abolitionists

100

The person who led enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman

200

This man sued for his freedom, but was denied

Dred Scot

300

This person wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, which spoke about the cruelty of slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

400

This man published the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper

William Lloyd Garrison

500

Which abolitionist led an attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

John Brown

Grab Bag

100

Abraham Lincoln's political party

Republican

200

The inventor of the Cotton Gin

Eli Whitney

300

Who got jobs in the Spoils system?

unqualified people, friends of Jackson

400

Name TWO groups the Know-Nothing Party hated.

Immigrants, Germans, Irish, Catholics

500

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Freed the slaves in the rebelling states