ch 10 vocab

Question 1

withdraw from the union

Answer 1

secession

Question 1

belief that states could overrule the federal government

Answer 1

states rights

Question 2

established free and slave states

Answer 2

missouri compromise

Question 3

california enters as a free state and new mexico and utah decide for themselves

Answer 3

compromise of 1850

Question 4

the ability of people to decide for themselves

Answer 4

popular sovereignty

Question 5

insured southern slaveholders they could reclaim escaped slaves

Answer 5

fugitive law

Question 6

dividing the country based on slave or free state

Answer 6

sectionalism

Question 7

the government formed by the southern states

Answer 7

CSA

Question 8

allowed union army to seize southern property

Answer 8

confiscation act

Question 9

strategy to surround the CSA

Answer 9

anaconda plan

Question 10

to capture a town by surrounding it

Answer 10

seige

Question 11

longest siege in civil war history

Answer 11

port hudson

Question 12

the group of louisianians know for ferocity and willingness to fight

Answer 12

fighting tigers

Question 13

confederate or CSA victory that prevented shreveport from being captured

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battle of mansfeild

Question 14

union general that controlled new orleans

Answer 14

benjamin butler

Question 15

people who wanted to free slaves

Answer 15

abolitionist

Question 16

built to raise the level of the red river

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baileys dam

Question 17

CSA general from louisiana who led attack at ft. sumter

Answer 17

PGT beauregard

Question 18

union naval officer who captured new orleans

Answer 18

david farragut

Question 19

the start of the civil war

Answer 19

ft sumpter