Civil war vocab

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Repealed the Missouri compromise and allowed Kansas and Nebraska to vote on the issue of slavery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