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25 Cards in this Set

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President Lincoln's announcement that the slaves had been freed was the
Enamcipation Proclamation
Which battle was the turning point of the Civil War
Gettysburg
Where was the Confederate capital
Richmond
Where did Lee surrender to Grant
Appomattox
The Union won control of the Mississippi River at which battle
Vicksburg
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired
Fort Sumter
What name did the Southern states use after they withdrew from the Union
Confederate States of America
What was one nickname given to the Confederate soldiers
Rebels
What was the name of the
Confederate ironclad ship
Merrimac
What was one nickname given to the Union soldiers
Yankees
What was the name of the Union ironclad ship
Monitor
This area was the only frontier that remained to be settled by the middle of the 1800's
the West
The two companies that built the transcontinental railroad were the Union Pacific Company and the ______ Pacific Company
Central
This act promised 160 acres of land to anyone who would farm the land for five years
Homestead Act
The two tracks of the Transcontinental Railroad met at Promonotory Point, ________
Utah
The man who murdered President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
The general who led the Confederate army
Robert E. Lee
President of the Confederate States
Jefferson Davis
Inventor of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Union general who captured Atlanta
William T. Sherman
President who believed the Union must be preserved
Abraham Lincoln
General who led all the Union forces
Ulysses S. Grant
Man who became President after another President was shot and killed
Andrew Johnson
What were two important results of the Civil War
1. No state could leave the Union
2. There would be no more slavery in the United States
Explain two differences between the way of life in the North and the way of life in the South before the Civil War
1. Farms in the North were small, farms in the South were large
2. The North had many factories, the South had few factories
3. The South depended on slaves for labor, the North did not