Ch 10: Division & Reunion Flashcards
What invention did Eli Whitney invent?
Cotton Gin
Who were the people who worked to make slavery illegal?
Abolitionists
What was the compromise made in 1820 admitting Missouri to the Union and establishing law concerning the admission of new slave states?
Missouri Compromise
What was the secret network of escape routes and hiding places between the Southern states and Canada?
Underground Railroad
Who was the 16th President?
Abraham Lincoln
Why did Southern planters begin owning more slaves, and how did Northerners respond to the growing number of slaveholders in the South?
Explain to Mom or Dad
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
Battle for Fort Sumter
Who was the black statesman who helped President Lincoln recruit blacks to fight for the Union?
Frederick Douglass
What was Lincoln’s announcement that all slaves would be considered free in any states fighting against the North?
Emancipation Proclamation
Who was the primary leader of Union troops?
Ulysses S. Grant
Who was the primary leader of Confederate troops?
Robert E. Lee
What battle won by the North was the turning point in the Civil War?
Gettysburg
What was the importance of the Battle of Vicksburg?
The Union controlled the Mississippi River and cut the South in two
In what town did Lee surrender to Grant?
Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
Who shot Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What is the motto of the US?
In God We Trust
Who founded the American Red Cross?
Clara Barton
What was the mail route between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California?
Pony Express
What was the railroad that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, and what were the two railroad companies that worked together to connect the East to the West?
Transcontinental Railroad
Union Pacific Company and Central Pacific Company
How did the Transcontinental railroad benefit people in the East? In the West?
Explain to Mom or Dad
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute and said, “Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”
Booker T. Washington
Who was the botanist who found 118 uses for the sweet potato?
George Washington Carver
What two ships fought in the first battle between ironclads?
Merrimac and Monitor
What was the location where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed?
Promontory Point, Utah
Who was Lee’s most valuable assistant and one of the greatest military heroes of the Civil War?
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Who was Harriet Tubman?
a famous leader of the Underground Railroad, who was an escaped slave herself
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who was Sojourner Truth?
a freed black woman who was an ardent abolitionist and traveled throughout the North to speak out against slavery
What was the capital of the Confederate States during the majority of the Civil War?
Richmond, VA
