History Ch.7

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  1. 1. The 11 states that withdrew from the union to form their own country.
  2. 5. The 15th President; was the last President before the Civil War.
  3. 7. The battle that gave the union Army control of the Mississippi River, cutting the Confederacy and half.
  4. 8. The 14th President; signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
  5. 10. The year of lease surrender to Grant that ended the Civil War.
  6. 14. The 12th U.S. President; nicknamed “Old Rough and Ready,” Was a general in the Mexican-American War.
  7. 16. the turning point in the Civil War.
  8. 22. The union ironclad ship
  9. 26. A person who believes slavery should be abolished or ended.
  10. 29. President of the Confederate states of America
  11. 30. A political party founded on the belief that slavery should not be allowed in the U.S. territories.
  12. 31. An agreement that attempted to balance power in the Senate between free and slave states.
  13. 34. The first major Civil War battle one by the South.
  14. 35. The 16th president of the United States, the first Republican president, president during the Civil War.
  15. 36. The Union general, whose marched to the sea destroyed southern towns and led to the end of the Civil War.
  16. 37. Commander of the confederate army.
  17. 38. Means to withdraw or to leave from.
  18. 39. This divided a section of western land into Kansas, a slave state, and Nebraska, a free state.
  19. 40. The final capital of the Confederate states of America.
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  1. 2. A document that declared that all slaves are free and states that had left the Union.
  2. 3. Early commander of the union army of the Potomac.
  3. 4. Secret roots leading to free northern states and Canada.
  4. 6. The location of the assassination of President Lincoln.
  5. 9. The war fought between the union and the confederate states of America.
  6. 10. The constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery in the U.S.
  7. 11. The actor who shot President Lincoln.
  8. 12. The four in Charleston, South Carolina were the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
  9. 13. A law requiring people in free northern states to return runaway slave slaves to the South.
  10. 15. A law that put a stop to bringing enslaved people to America to be sold.
  11. 17. Commander of all union armies, known as “Unconditional Surrender.”
  12. 18. the deadliest Battle of the Civil War.
  13. 19. The location of the surrender of Robert E Lee and the Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant.
  14. 20. An abolitionist who escaped from slavery; wrote a book about his life as a slave.
  15. 21. The Supreme Court decision that allowed slavery in the U.S. territories.
  16. 23. The Confederate ironclad ship.
  17. 24. The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  18. 25. The 13th President; became President after Taylor; Signed into law the Compromise of 1850.
  19. 27. A former slave who led over 70 slaves to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad.
  20. 28. The three minute speech by President Lincoln, that honored both the Union and Confederate fallen soldiers.
  21. 32. The year the American Civil Warbegan.
  22. 33. A Confederate general and most remembered soldier of the First Battle of Bull Run.