Civil War Review

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  1. 8. After Lincoln issued this, Britain and France decided to withhold recognition of the Confederacy.
  2. 10. Idea the the system should let the people decide on an issue.
  3. 11. Wisconsin birthplace of the Republican party.
  4. 13. Place where Lee surrendered to Grant.
  5. 16. Invented the cotton gin.
  6. 18. Ordered all citizens of the U.S. assist in the return of escaped enslaved people.
  7. 20. Assassinated President Lincoln
  8. 21. Law that was meant to preserve the balance of power in the Senate.
  9. 23. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott v. Sanford case.
  10. 24. Also known as conscription, law that required men between certain ages to serve in the army for three years.
  11. 26. North's plan or strategy to "starve" out the south.
  12. 27. Loyalty given to interests of a region or section of the country.
  13. 29. Considered a border state.
  14. 31. William Tecomseh Sherman began a "March to the Sea" heading to this Georgia town.
  15. 32. September 17, 1862, bloodiest day of the entire Civil War.
  16. 33. Southerners justified this with a theory that states' rights trumped Federal laws.
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  1. 1. The first state to vote to secede.
  2. 2. First battle of the Civil War.
  3. 3. Former slave that spoke out against slavery.
  4. 4. Merrimac and Monitor was significant because it was this.
  5. 5. New nation created by those states that seceded from the Union following Lincoln's election.
  6. 6. The Dred Scott decision made the Missouri Compromise this.
  7. 7. People who worked to get rid of slavery in the U.S.
  8. 9. Meant to be temporary this tax was created to help pay for the Civil War.
  9. 11. Confederate capital 100 miles from Washington, D.C.
  10. 12. Pro-Slavery Missouri voters moved into this state to take part in deciding slavery laws in this state.
  11. 14. After the battle of Antietam, Lincoln took action against this.
  12. 15. First president of the Confederate States of America.
  13. 17. Missouri Compromise 36°-30°
  14. 19. Confederate and Union soldiers came mostly from these.
  15. 22. Won the election of 1860.
  16. 25. Led an attack at Harpers Ferry intended to get enslaved people to rebel.
  17. 28. Invention that increased the costs of growing cotton.
  18. 30. of Columbia Where was slavery prohibited in the Compromise of 1850?