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| Invented the cotton gin in 1793 making cotton a cash crop for southern farmers |
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| Name for people who spent much time trying to outlaw slavery |
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| A freed black woman from New York who travelled throughout the North speaking against slavery(she was an abolitionist) |
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| abolitionist writer from Connecticut- wrote the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin which described the evils of slavery |
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| System of escape routes and hiding places in the 1800s between the South and Canada where runaway slaves escaped to the North |
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| name given to the people who helped the runaway slaves through different stations in the Underground Railroad |
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| The most famous leader of the Underground Railroad. She was an escaped slave from Maryland ( she made 19 dangerous trips to the South and helped over 300 escaped slaves) |
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| In 1818 and 1819, Missouri and Maine wanted to join the union. Because each state would have two senators voting in the Senate, the Union wanted Missouri to come in as a slave state and Maine as a free state, keeping the balance between free and slave states in the Union. |
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| Special TAXES from the Federal government on goods imported from other countries |
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| 16th President of the UNited States |
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| Abraham Lincoln's Famous Quote About a Divided House |
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| "A house divided against itself cannot stand" Abraham Lincoln |
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| a democrat senator who sought to pass a bill that would allow settlers in new states to own slaves. Lincoln opposed him. |
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President of the United CONFEDERATE States of America
( South Carolina,Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas) |
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| The Civil War began when the Confederate forces fired on FORT SUMTER on April 12, 1861. |
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| Black statesman helped Lincoln recruit blacks for the Union army |
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| Union ships sent to stop the South's trade with Europe, blocking major seaports |
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| A Confederate ship covered with iron plates (ironclad ship) with a sharp piece of iron in front used to ram and destroy wooden Union ships |
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| The Union built this ironclad ship in response to the Confederates' Merrimack |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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An announcement that all salves would be free in any states fighting against the North
England considered helping the South before this proclamation |
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| General leader of the Union troops |
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| General leader of the Confederate troops |
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| One of the greatest military heroes of the circuit war, he earned the name "Stonewall" at the battle of Bull Run. He was a great general and Christian. |
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| Important cash crops of the South |
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| A decision that satisfies both sides of an argument |
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| Who LOST more battles than they won in the first 2 years of the Civil War? |
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| The turning point of the War |
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| Union army won control of the Mississippi River. the South was now cut in two. |
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| General Sherman's March to the Sea |
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| Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia and continued on to the Atlantic Coast |
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| Home of the Confederate States |
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| Appomattox Court House, Virginia |
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| Where General Lee met General Grant to surrender |
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| The Civil War had settled two important issues |
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1. No state could leave the Union
2. There would be no more slavery in the United States |
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| Shot and killed President Lincoln at Ford's Theater |
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| Lincoln's Vice President who became President upon the death of Lincoln. |
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| Chosen by Salmon Chase to be put on all of the coins in the Union. |
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| Came up with our first motto, "In God We Trust" which was put on Union coins during the Civil War |
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| New Songs sprang up from the Civil War |
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| These songs reflected the common bonds that remained of the North and South |
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| Founded the American Red Cross |
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| A mail route used between Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California. It only lasted 19 months. It was replaced by the telegraph. |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| A railroad that could connect the West with the East |
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| Thousands of people from China moved to California for this |
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| To get work laying the tracks for the Transcontinental Railroad |
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| On May 10, 1869, a Union Pacific locomotive traveling west met a Central Pacific locomotive traveling east at Promontory Point, Utah. |
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| One least spike was needed to connect the rails for the transcontinental railroad, so the held a ceremony to celebrate and marked the sot with a gold spike. |
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| Union Pacific and Central Pacific |
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| Two Railroad companies that worked together to connect the east to the west in railroad tracks. |
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| Booker T. Washington's famous quote |
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| "Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work." |
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| Famous Black Educator who loved learning and started a school in Tuskegee, Alabama known as the, "Tuskegee Institute" |
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| Born a Slave, studied the uses of plants, named his laboratory, "God's Little Workshop" |
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