History Words Chapter 8

Question 1

Triangular Trade

Answer 1

101.Triangular Trade-A trade route connecting three different places, such as, English Colonies, England, and Africa. Critical for the slave trade. Many trading companies in the north made large amounts of money selling slaves to the south after the Treaty of Paris.

Question 2

Under Ground Rail Roud

Answer 2

Underground Railroad- Escape routes and hiding places that moved escaped slaves north. Harriet Tubman famous for running safe houses

Question 3

Dred Scott Case

Answer 3

Dred Scott Case- The 1857 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens and that congress couldn’t forbid slavery in the territories. Slavery legal everywhere, no more “Free & Slave” states Slavery was guaranteed by Constitution in the US

Question 4

First Battle Bull Run

Answer 4

First Battle Bull Run- The first major battle of the civil war, won by the confederates in 1862.

Question 5

Richmond Virginia

Answer 5

Richmond, Virginia– Capital of the Confederate States of America. The capital was moved to Montgomery, Alabama during the last year of the war

Question 6

Platform

Answer 6

Platform- A statement of goals, and principles of a group, especially a political party. (i.e. Abraham Lincoln wants to contain slavery where it exists)

Question 7

Border State

Answer 7

Border State – Around the Civil war, a state between the North and the South (i.e. Missouri, Kentucky)

Question 8

Confederation States of America

Answer 8

Confederate States of America- A nation formed by eleven southern states in 1861. South Carolina was the first to leave Union. This was to be the name of the new country. A new county based on slavery

Question 9

Jefferson Davis

Answer 9

Jefferson Davis – President of the Confederate States of America.