Civil War

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  1. 1. Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North.
  2. 8. Fort attacked by South Carolina starting the Civil War. (April 12, 1861)
  3. 9. warship covered with protective iron plates
  4. 10. Amendment It states that no state can make or enforce any law which deprives any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. Also, states could not deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. This was passed to help blacks since the Civil Rights laws were not being enforced.
  5. 12. withdraw from an organization or communion
  6. 14. a Union general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
  7. 15. Last name of the President of the Confederacy
  8. 16. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  9. 20. The constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude.
  10. 25. an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.
  11. 26. a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
  12. 27. Tax paid to the state, federal, and local governments based on income earned over the past year.
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  1. 1. Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties
  2. 2. Law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them
  3. 3. issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free
  4. 4. 1863 Union army's blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi, that led the city to surrender during the Civil War
  5. 5. Lincoln 16th President of the United States
  6. 6. where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee To Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865
  7. 7. a slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War (Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia)
  8. 11. This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare
  9. 13. 1857 Supreme Court decision that stated that slaves were not citizens; that living in a free state or territory, even for many years, did not free slaves; and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
  10. 16. Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War
  11. 17. a constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote
  12. 18. Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
  13. 19. general whose march to sea caused destruction to the south
  14. 21. "Squeeze" and "Choke" the South out of its resources through blockades of bodies of water
  15. 22. Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.
  16. 23. nation formed by the states that did not secede
  17. 24. nation formed by states that seceded