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25 Cards in this Set
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List two reasons the civil war was fought |
To reunite the union and to end slavery |
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What year did the civil war start |
1861 |
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What year did the civil war end |
1865 |
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Who was the United States president during the civil war |
Abraham Lincoln |
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Who was the president of the Confederacy |
Jefferson Davis |
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Name one famous Union general |
Ulyssed Grant or George McClellan |
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Name one famous confederate general |
Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson |
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Who did the emancipation proclamation free |
It freed slaves in the rebellion (Confederate) States |
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What was the first battle of the civil war |
Bull run |
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What battle was the turning point for the Union |
Gettysburg |
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When and how did President Lincoln die |
On April 15th 1865 President Lincoln was assassinated |
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Abolitionist |
A person opposed to slavery end in favor of ending it right away |
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Blockade |
A military strategy that aims to cut off supplies going to and out of an area |
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Draft |
A system for selecting men for required military service |
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Emancipate |
To make free |
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Rural |
Having to do with the countryside and agriculture |
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Secede |
To withdraw formally from a nation |
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Strategy |
But overall military plan for defeating an enemy or winning a conflict |
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Urban |
Having to do with cities and towns |
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How did the invention of the cotton gin increased the need for slaves |
It allowed plantation owners to grow much more cotton. They needed more slaves to plow, plant, and harvest cotton. |
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What was the underground railroad |
It was a network of people who helped runaway slaves escape to free states |
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Who was freed by the emancipation proclamation? Why weren't all slaves free? |
it freed slaves in the rebelling Confederate States. President Lincoln was afraid the slave states in the union would leave the union if he freed those slaves. |
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What was A soldier's life like? |
a soldier's life included marching in bad weather, not enough food / bad food, carrying heavy packs, poor clothing and shoes, and illness. |
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What tasks did women do for the war effort? |
women were nurses at hospitals, they had to do farm work, some were spies, they needed and made clothes, they made food for soldiers, they made bandages, and they wrote letters to soldiers. |
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What did former slaves do once they gained their freedom? |
many former slaves left their plantations, try to find family members who had been separated from them, sharecropped, got help from the Freedmen's bureau. Some former slaves were hired by their owners and stayed on the plantation. |
