Civil war vocab

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Emancipation Proclamation

What presidential order declared slaves free in the rebellion states only?

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Richmond Virginia

Where was the capital of the confederacy?

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Ulysses S. Grant

Who was the commander of the Union Army?

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South Carolina

Who was the first country to secede after Lincoln was elected?

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Robert E. Lee.

Who was the Commander of the Confederate army?

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Jefferson Davis

Who was the President of the Confederacy

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Appomattox Court House

Where did the Confederacy surrender?

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Sherman

Led to March to the Sea

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Battle of Gettysburg

Battle that was a turning point in the Civil War

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Battle of Antietam

Single bloodiest day in American History

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Fort Sumter

1st act of aggression in the Civil War

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Popular Sovereignty

idea that political authority belongs to the people

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Fugitive Slave Act

Required all citizens, north and south, to catch runaway slaves

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South

Heavy agriculture was a characteristic of the north or the south?

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North

More wealth was an advantage the belonged to the north or the south?

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North

More railroads was an advantage the belonged to the north or south?

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North

Heavily industrialized was an advantage that belonged to the north or south?

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blockade (siege)

Isolating a place by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.

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Total War

Every available weapon is used and the nation's full financial resources are devoted

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Agriculture

The production of crops, livestock, or poultry

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Industrialization

large scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity in an area, society, or country.

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Mason-Dixon Line

The boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. It was considered the line between slave and free states.

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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.

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Suffrage

The right to vote

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Abolition

the emancipation of the slaves accomplished by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863

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Underground Railroad

A system to help slaves to help aid escaping slaves to the North

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Bull Run

1st battle of the Civil War. The Union was defeated at this battle

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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

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Segregation

To require, often with force, the separation of a group from the general body of society.

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Jim Crow Laws

Any state law discriminating against African Americans

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Impeach

to accuse a public official of misconduct in office

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Black codes

Any law that defined and limited the rights of former slaves after the war

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Homestead act

Act of congress that made public land in the west available to settlers for free.

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Sharecropper

A tenant farmer who pays a portion of their crops for rent

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Carpetbagger

A person from the north who went to the south after the Civil War to profit from reconstruction

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