U.S. chapter 13

Question 1

cotton gin

Answer 1

machine that quickly removed seeds from cotton

Question 2

free states

Answer 2

states that did not allow people to own slaves

Question 3

slave states

Answer 3

states that allowed people to own slaves

Question 4

compromise

Answer 4

a decision that tries to satisfy both sides of an argument

Question 5

blockade

Answer 5

the Union’s move to block all major seaports of the south in order to keep them from receiving valuable supplies

Question 6

ironclad

Answer 6

ship covered with thick iron plates so that cannon balls or gun shells would bounce off

Question 7

emancipate

Answer 7

to set free

Question 8

proclamation

Answer 8

an important statement

Question 9

Union

Answer 9

name used to refer to the United States during the Civil War

Question 10

Civil War

Answer 10

war fought between the North and the South from 1861 to 1865; also called the War between the States

Question 11

Eli Whitney

Answer 11

man who invented the cotton gin

Question 12

Missouri Compromise

Answer 12

decision to allow Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state to preserve the balance of slave and free states represented in Congress

Question 13

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 13

President during the civil war

Question 14

Confederate States of America

Answer 14

name that the Southern states gave themselves after they withdrew from the Union to form their own nation

Question 15

Jefferson Davis

Answer 15

president of the Confederate States of America

Question 16

Merrimac

Answer 16

first Confederate ironclad

Question 17

Monitor

Answer 17

first Union ironclad

Question 18

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 18

announcement made by President Lincoln that freed the slaves

Question 19

General Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 19

general in command of the Union army

Question 20

General Robert E. Lee

Answer 20

general of the Confederate army

Question 21

General William T. Sherman

Answer 21

Union general who captured Atlanta, Georgia, then marched through Georgia to the sea, burning and destroying everything on the way

Question 22

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 22

man who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln

Question 23

Andrew Johnson

Answer 23

man who became President after Lincoln’s Death

Question 24

Fort Sumter

Answer 24

fort in Charleston, South Carolina, where the first battle of the Civil War was fought

Question 25

Gettysburg

Answer 25

battle which was the turning point of the Civil War

Question 26

Vicksburg

Answer 26

city captured by the Union army so the North could control the Mississippi River

Question 27

Richmond

Answer 27

capital of the Confederate States

Question 28

Appomattox Court House, Virginia

Answer 28

place where General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the end of the Civil War

Question 29

1821

Answer 29

Missouri Compromise

Question 30

1861-1865

Answer 30

Civil War

Question 31

1863

Answer 31

Emancipation Proclamation is issued

Question 32

1865

Answer 32

President Lincoln is shot