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Vocabulary
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An abolitionist would be strongly against this. The northern states did not support this.
What is slavery?
100
South Carolina (December 20, 1860) Mississippi (January 9, 1861) Florida (January 10, 1861) Alabama (January 11, 1861) Georgia (January 19, 1861) Louisiana (January 26, 1861) Texas (February 1, 1861)
What were the names of the first seven southern states to secede from the Union and when did they secede?
100
Elected president in 1860
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
What was the first battle of the civil war?
100
Withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity.
What is Secession?
200
A larger population, many more factories, an extensive rail system, a large part of the navy, and a central bank.
What were some of the advantages the North had over the South?
200
This constitutional compromise was used as a reason southern states could own slaves.
What was the 3/5ths compromise?
200
Military leader of the Confederacy
Who was Robert E. Lee?
200
The decisive battle of the civil war took place in this state.
What was Pennsylvania? [Gettysburg]
200
This was suspended for anyone supporting the Confederacy. It is the right of a person to present evidence before a court that he or she has been wrongly imprisoned. Protected in the constitution.
habeus corpus
300
The name of the union civil war strategy that included blockading southern ports and capturing the Mississippi river.
What was the Anaconda plan?
300
A strong military tradition (and many military academies).
What advantage did the south have at the start of the civil war.
300
Jefferson Davis
Who was president of the Confederacy?
300
This battle was the bloodiest one day battle in the civil war.
What was the battle of Antietam?
300
The executive order given by Lincoln that freed all slaves in the Confederate States.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
The abolitionist that lead a raid on Harpers Ferry to arm slaves and cause an insurrection in the south.
Who was John Brown?
400
The plantation owners owed money and there were no strong banks located in the south.
What were two financial problems the South had at the start of the civil war?
400
He offered the job of head of the Union Army to Lee, who turned it down.
Who was Winfield Scott?
400
The general that commanded the union army during the siege of Vicksburg.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
400
The gradual wearing down of one side by the other through exhaustion and running out of supplies. This tactic was used by the Union Army to defeat the Confederate Army.
What is attrition?
500
This state that was created in 1863 when some counties in Virginia voted to stay in the union rather than secede?
What is West Virginia?
500
The 1st Battle of Bull Run
What was the first major land battle of the war and it was won by the Confederacy.
500
A slave, taken to a free state, who believed he was free. The slave states disagreed. He brought his case to the Supreme Court.
Who was Dred Scott?
500
This was the decisive battle of the civil war.
What was the battle of Gettysburg?
500
Military rule, declared in Baltimore in 1862.
What is martial law?