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46 Cards in this Set
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machine that quickly removes seeds from cotton |
cotton gin |
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states that did not allow people to own slaves |
free states |
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states that allowed people to own slaves |
slave states |
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a decision that tries to satisfy both sides of an argument |
compromise |
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the Union's move to block all major seaports of the south in order to keep them from recievingvaluable supplies |
blockade |
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ship covered with thick iron plates so that the cannon balls or gun shells would bounce off |
ironclad |
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to set free |
imancipate |
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an important statement |
proclamation |
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name used to refer to the United States during the civil war
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Union
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_______ and confederate
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war fought between the North and the South from to 1865 |
Civil war |
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man who invented the cotton gin |
Eli Whitney |
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What was called the war between the States? |
Civil War |
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decision to allow Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state to preserve the balance of slave and free states represented in Congress |
Missouri Compromise |
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President during the Civil War |
Abraham Lincoln |
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name that the southern states gave themselves after they withdrew from the union to form their own nation |
Confederate States of America |
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President of the Confederate States of America? |
Jefferson Davis |
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first confederate ironclad |
Merrimac |
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first union ironclad |
Monitor |
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announcement made by President Lincoln that freed the slaves |
Emancipation Proclamation |
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general in command of the Union army |
General Ulysses S. Grant |
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general of the Confederate army |
General Robert E. Lee |
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Union general who captured Atlanta, Georgia, then marched through Georgia to the sea, burning and destroying everything on the way |
General William T. Sherman |
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man who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln |
John Wilkes Booth |
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man who shot and killed Abrahan Lincoln |
John Wilkes |
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man who became President after Lincoln's death |
Andrew Johnson |
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fort in Charleston, South Carolina, where the first battle of the Civil War was fought |
Fort Sumter |
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battle which was the turning point of the Civil War |
Gettysburg |
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city captured by the Union army so the North could control the Mississippi River |
Vicksburg |
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capital of the confederate states |
Richmond |
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place where General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the end of the Civil War |
Appomattox Court House, Virginia |
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Missouri Compromise |
1821 |
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Civil War |
1861-1865 |
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Emancipation Proclamation is issued |
1863 |
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President Lincoln is shot |
1865 |
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What 2 things did the Civil War make? |
no state could leave the Union, and there would be no more slavery in the United States |
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Why did slavery disappear in the North? |
because they could not afford to buy slaves |
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What were the south's 2 main crops? |
Cotton and tabacco |
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Why was the cotton gin such a help to farmers? |
quickly removed seeds from the cotton |
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Why did the south dislike Lincoln? |
they did not trust him |
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what were Northern soldiers called? |
Yankees or billy yanks |
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what were Southern soldiers called? |
Rebels or Johnny Rebs |
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Where was the first battle of the Civil War fought? |
Fort Sumter |
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How many states made up the Confederacy? |
11 |
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How many states stayed with the Union? |
22 |
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What battle put the Mississippi River under Northern Control? |
battle of Vicksburg |
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Who became President after Lincoln's death? |
Andrew Johnson |
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