Social Studies VIII

4. was the president of the united states during the civil war, wrote the gettysburg address.
6. an act or means of selling off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
8. a civil war nurse, created american red cross.
10. 1850 California entered the union as a free state. Southwest territories would decide about slavery.
13. was a skilled confederate general from VA.
14. tax on foreign goods.
15. an african american sailor and later a union naval captain, was highly honored for his feats of bravery and heroism. He was elected to the united states house of representatives after the war.
18. was the leader of the army of northern VA, opposed secession, but did not believe that the union should be held together by force.
21. another term for the confederate states of america, the south.
22. the principle that authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elective representatives, who are the source of all political power.
24. in which people held jobs in the cities, the north was mainly an urban society.
25. said that the civil war was to preserve a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people". -Abraham Lincoln.
27. Cabin a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was an abolitionist, which described slavery in the south.

1. a group of states united into one political body, the united states, and refers to the north during the civil war.
2. in which people lived in small villages and on farms and plantations, the south was mainly an agricultural society.
3. an american abolitionist, Brown and his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal at harpers ferry.
5. Missouri entered the union as a slave state. Maine entered the Union as a free state.
7. people in each state would decide about the slavery issue.
9. Decision united states supreme court case, a slave who had resided in a free state or territory, where slavery was prohibited, was not thereby entitled to his freedom.
11. declared "that all persons held as slaves, within the rebellious states are and henceforward shall be free".
12. was the president of the confederate states of america.
16. the withdrawal of states from the united states.
17. was a former enslaved african american who promoted african american involvement in the civil war.
19. a law passed as part of the compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with a legal way to capture slaves who had escaped to free states.
20. was general of the union army that defeated Lee.
23. political powers reserved for the states governments rather than the federal governments.
26. a crop such as tobacco and cotton that is grown to be sold rather than to be used by the farmer.