Civil War Flashcards
Civil War Unit (Vocab)
Which word means to build up an area with factories, paying jobs, and roads for transportation?
industrialized
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Which word means to leave or withdraw from an area?
secede
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Which word means to go against someone or something?
revolt
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Which word means a person who is against slavery and tries to end it?
abolitionist
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What do we call a storage place for weapons for a war?
armory (arsenal)
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What is the word for organized resistance (going against) authority or control?
rebellion
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This term means a difference in the way an area makes money -
economic differences
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Which word means life based on farming and growing crops?
agricultural
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This term means disagreements between individuals or groups of people .
conflict
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States that practiced slavery were called ______________.
States that did not practice slavery were called __________.
slave states
free states
Civil War Unit (Differences)
- What was the economy like in the northern part of the United States?
industrialized
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- What was the economy like in the southern part of the United States?
agricultural and relied on slave labor
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- What were the southern states known as?
Confederate States of America (Confederacy)
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- What were the northern states known as?
The Union
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- Northern states wanted the new states created out of the western territory to be _________ states.
FREE
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- Southern states wanted the new states created out of the western territory to be __________ states.
SLAVE
Civil War Unit (Differences)
- Who campaigned to end slavery?
abolitionists
Civil War Unit (Roles)
- Who led a revolt against plantation owners in Virginia?
Nat Turner
Civil War Unit (Roles)
- Who supported a secret route that escaped enslaved Africans took?
What was this route called?
Harriet Tubman
Underground Railroad
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- Who led a raid on the United States Armory (Arsenal) at Harpers Ferry, Virginia? He was trying to start a slave rebellion. He was captured and hanged.
John Brown
Civil War Unit (Roles)
- Who was elected the president of the United States in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
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- What happened after Lincoln was elected president in 1860?
Some southern states seceded from the Union and formed the “Confederate States of America”
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- Which side did Virginia join when the United States divided?
Virginia seceded and joined the Confederacy.
Civil War Unit (Battles)
What was the first major CLASH (battle) of the Civil War?
Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas)
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Which battle did Confederate “Stonewall” Jackson play a major role in?
Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas)
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Who was the Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?
General Robert E. Lee
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Which commander helped defeat Union troops at Fredericksburg, Virginia?
General Robert E. Lee
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What did Lincoln use the Union navy to do?
Blockade southern ports
Civil War Unit (Battles)
What is the name of the famous sea battle that took place in Virginia waters near Norfolk and Hampton?
The Monitor vs. the Merrimack (Battle of the Ironclads)
Civil War Unit (Battles)
What were the names of the Confederate and Union ships?
Union - Monitor
Confederate - Merrimack
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How did the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack end?
It ended in a draw
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What was the capital of the Confederacy?
Richmond
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What was the capital of the Union?
Washington, D.C.
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Who did Richmond fall to?
Ulysses S. Grant
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What happened to Richmond when the Union troops were taking over?
The Confederates burned it, so the Union couldn’t get their supplies.
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Tell the year and place the Civil War ended.
Appomattox Courthouse, VA
1865
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What happened at the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
Confederate General Robert E. Lee
surrendered to
Union General Ulysses S. Grant
which ended the war
Civil War Unit (Roles)
Which side did American Indians support during the war?
Most American Indians did not take sides.
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Which side did most white Virginians support?
The Confederacy
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Why were African Americans important to the south?
The Confederacy relied on them to raise crops and provide labor for the army.
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Tell about most enslaved African Americans during the Civil War.
Many of them fled to the Union army and some fought for the Union.
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Tell how some free African Americans felt during the Civil War.
Some felt their limited rights could best be protected by supporting the Confederacy.
How did West Virginia Become a state?
The eastern counties relied on slavery me wanted to secede. However the western counties didn’t agree with slavery so they created West Virginia.
