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Emancipation Proclamation
What presidential order declared slaves free in the rebellion states only?
Richmond Virginia
Where was the capital of the confederacy?
Ulysses S. Grant
Who was the commander of the Union Army?
South Carolina
Who was the first country to secede after Lincoln was elected?
Robert E. Lee.
Who was the Commander of the Confederate army?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the President of the Confederacy
Appomattox Court House
Where did the Confederacy surrender?
Sherman
Led to March to the Sea
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle that was a turning point in the Civil War
Battle of Antietam
Single bloodiest day in American History
Fort Sumter
1st act of aggression in the Civil War
Popular Sovereignty
idea that political authority belongs to the people
Fugitive Slave Act
Required all citizens, north and south, to catch runaway slaves
South
Heavy agriculture was a characteristic of the north or the south?
North
More wealth was an advantage the belonged to the north or the south?
North
More railroads was an advantage the belonged to the north or south?
North
Heavily industrialized was an advantage that belonged to the north or south?
blockade (siege)
Isolating a place by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
Total War
Every available weapon is used and the nation's full financial resources are devoted
Agriculture
The production of crops, livestock, or poultry
Industrialization
large scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity in an area, society, or country.
Mason-Dixon Line
The boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. It was considered the line between slave and free states.
Missouri Compromise
Act of Congress in which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was not allowed north of 36 degree parallel.
Suffrage
The right to vote
Abolition
the emancipation of the slaves accomplished by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863
Underground Railroad
A system to help slaves to help aid escaping slaves to the North
Bull Run
1st battle of the Civil War. The Union was defeated at this battle
Kansas Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri compromise and allowed Kansas and Nebraska to vote on the issue of slavery
Segregation
To require, often with force, the separation of a group from the general body of society.
Jim Crow Laws
Any state law discriminating against African Americans
Impeach
to accuse a public official of misconduct in office
Black codes
Any law that defined and limited the rights of former slaves after the war
Homestead act
Act of congress that made public land in the west available to settlers for free.
Sharecropper
A tenant farmer who pays a portion of their crops for rent
Carpetbagger
A person from the north who went to the south after the Civil War to profit from reconstruction
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