Terms
A machine that removed seeds from cotton quickly, making cotton a valuable crop in the South
Cotton gin
Name the secret network of escape routes and hiding places between the southern states and Canada.
The Underground Railroad
The turning point of the Civil War; won by the Union
Gettysburg
Inventor of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
President during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
A decision that tries to satisfy both sides of an argument
Compromise
Give the name of the twenty-two northern or western states during the Civil War.
The Union
First battle of the Civil War; won by the Confederates
Fort Sumter
An escaped slave and one of the most famous leaders of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Railroad built to connect the East with the West
Transcontinental Railroad
Give the name of the eleven southern states that separated from the Union during the Civil War.
The Confederate States of America
Battle of the ironclads; one fought to break through the Union blockade and the other fought to stop her; proved the value of ironclad ships
Merrimac and Monitor
Abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Leader of the Union troops who was victorious at Vicksburg
Ulysses S. Grant
Taxes placed on foreign goods by the federal government
Tariff
Name President Lincoln's announcement that all slaves would be considered free in any state fighting against the Union.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Battle where Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname
Bull Run
A freed black slave and abolitionist
Sojourner Truth
Democrat who ran against Lincoln for senator
Stephen A. Douglas
A person who worked to outlaw slavery
Abolitionist
What legislation said that no other state north of an established boundary could enter the Union as a slave state?
Missouri Compromise
Cut the South in two by giving the North control of the Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Black abolitionist who helped recruit blacks for the Union army
Frederick Douglass
Said, "The old flag never touched the ground."
William Harvey Carney