Exam Flashcards
People that went to California in the gold rush
Forty-niners
Withdraw from the union
Secession
Used to describe the violence in the Kansas territory over slavery
Bleeding Kansas
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe; considered one of the causes of the civil war
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Completed the continental US
Gadsden Purchase
Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Led the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
President of the confederacy
Jefferson Davis
1st state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
1st battle of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Led a raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry to start a slave revolt; was captured and hanged
John Brown
Name the confederate states
AL, MS, GA, SC, NC, FL, TX, LA, VA, TN, AR
Led confederate army in the East
Robert E. Lee
Head of the northern army at the end of the war
Ulysses S Grant
Peace Democrats (Northern Democrats who were against the war)
Copperheads
First pointed projectile in the war
Minnie ball
Earned his nickname at Bull Run
Thomas Jackson
What is Thomas Jackson’s nickname
Stonewall Jackson
Turning point of the war in the East
Gettysburg
Turning point of the war in the West
Vicksburg
Located in Tennessee; where Albert Sidney Johnson was killed; where the hornets nest occurred; bloodiest battle in the war
Shiloh
Bloodiest one-day battle
Antietam
The largest and worst prison camp in Georgia
Andersonville
Issued after Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Battlefield nurse that started the Red Cross
Clara Barton
Last major confederate victory in the war
Chickamauga
Took place during the battle of Gettysburg; 6000 were killed
Pickett’s Charge
Practice total war in Georgia
William Sherman
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
Reconstruction
This amendment gave slaves the right to vote
15th amendment
This amendment freed the slaves
13th amendment
People in the south who helped during Reconstruction
Scalawags
Northerners who came to the south to get rich during Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
Didn’t pay rent; gave landowners half of their crops
Sharecroppers
This amendment gave slave citizenship
14th amendment
Paid rent for land
Tenant farmers
Largest vein of silver found in the West
Comstock Lode
Where was the comstock lode found?
Carson City, Nevada
Deep mining
Quartz mining