Pageant chapter 20 key terms, people, events, etc.
1861-1865
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| 391887223 | Fort Sumter | On April 12, 1861 shots were fired onto this base in South Carolina officially starting the Civil War | |
| 391887224 | border states | The states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia were this during this during the Civil War | |
| 391887225 | seceded states | States that left the Union. South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee | |
| 391887226 | General Robert E. Lee | The general put into place by Davis for the Confederate States | |
| 391887227 | Stonewall Jackson | Lee's chief lieutenant for the Confederate Army | |
| 391887228 | Ulysses S. Grant | The general put into place by Lincoln for the Union Army | |
| 391887229 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | A very influencial book that exposed slavery to many northerners | |
| 391887230 | Trent Affair | A Union warship stopped this British mailship and forced two Confederate diplomats off of the ship | |
| 391887231 | Napoleon III of France | This leader of France took advantage of the Civil War and occupied Mexico City | |
| 391887232 | Jefferson Davis | The president of the Confederate States | |
| 391887233 | Abraham Lincoln | The president of the Union during the Civil War | |
| 391887234 | The New York City Draft Riots | A protest to the draft that was ended by Federal troops shooting upon the riot | |
| 391887235 | Morrill Tariff Act | This increased duties from 5 to 10 percent | |
| 391887236 | The National Banking System | Launched in 1863 and was designed to establish a standard bank-note currency | |
| 391887237 | King Cotton | The nickname for the South because of there vast growth of this crop | |
| 391887238 | Fifty- Niners | The discovery of petroleum led to this in Pennsylvania | |
| 391887239 | Dorothea Dix | superintendent of nurses for the Union Army | |
| 391887240 | Sally Tompkins | ran a Richmond infirmary for wounded Confederate soldiers and was awarded the rank of captain. | |
| 391887241 | William H. Seward | Secretary of State under Lincoln for the Union | |
| 391887242 | conscription | the forced draft of individuals. Both the Union and the Confederacy used this during the Civil War | |
| 391887243 | Captains of Industry | The nickname given to the North around the Civil War because of their capitalistic tendencies | |
| 391887244 | Civil War | The war between the Union and the Confederate States that lasted from 1861-1865 | |
| 391887245 | runaway inflation | what happened in the South During the Civil War as a result of the poorly backed tresury notes |
