New World History Ch 10, A-E, 6th Gr ABeka
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| 620731779 | Eli Whitney's invention | cotton gin | |
| 620731780 | name for people who worked to make slavery illegal | abolitionists | |
| 620731781 | compromise made in 1820 admitting Missouri to the Union and establishing law concerning the admission of new slave states | Missouri Compromise | |
| 620731782 | secret network of escape routes and hiding places between the Southern states and Canada | Underground Railroad | |
| 620731783 | reasons the Southern planters began owning more slaves | 1. increased demand for cotton and tobacco 2. they did not think they could hire enough people to work on the plantations 3. some slavery had existed in the North, but with smaller farms and more factories, Northerners stopped using slave labor | |
| 620731784 | Ways Northerners responded to the growing numbers of slaveholders in the South | 1. Abolitionists in the North began to speak out against slavery. 2. Other Northerners joined in and asked how our country could be free and allow one man to own another | |
| 620731785 | lessons we can learn from Abraham Lincoln | 1. he was a hard worker 2. he had a desire to learn 3. he enjoyed reading the Bible 4. he had compassion for slaves 5. he was brave, honest, dedicated, and patriotic | |
| 620731786 | first battle of the Civil War | Battle of Fort Sumter | |
| 620731787 | black statesman who helped President Lincoln recruit blacks to fight for the Union | Frederick Douglas | |
| 620731788 | President Lincoln's announcement that all slaves would be considered free in any states fighting against the North | Emancipation Proclamation | |
| 620731789 | leader of the Union troops | Ulysses S. Grant | |
| 620731790 | leader of the Confederate troops | Robert E. Lee | |
| 620731791 | lessons we can learn from General Stonewall Jackson's Christian testimony | 1. to be bold and faithful to share the gospel with those around us 2. his testimony had an impact on the Southern troops, as well as on people of England and Scotland | |
| 620731792 | the battle that was the turning point of war won by the North | Battle of Gettysburg | |
| 620731793 | the importance of the Battle of Vicksburg | it gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, cutting the Confederate sates in two | |
| 620731794 | town in which Lee surrendered to Grant | Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia | |
| 620731795 | man who shot President Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth | |
| 620731796 | one of the most famous leaders of the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman | |
| 620731797 | Lincoln's career before he became president | lawyer | |
| 620731798 | 16th president | Lincoln | |
| 620731799 | southern states that left the Union | Confederate States of America | |
| 620731800 | president of the Confederacy | Robert E. Lee | |
| 620731801 | the Union's ironclad ship | Monitor | |
| 620731802 | our nation's motto | "In God We Trust" | |
| 620731803 | founder of the American Red Cross | Clara Barton | |
| 620731804 | mail route between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California | Pony Express | |
| 620731805 | the railroad that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific | Transcontinental railroad | |
| 620731806 | two railroad companies that worked together to connect the East and the West | Union Pacific and Central Pacific | |
| 620731807 | how the transcontinental railroad benefited people in the East | 1. it enabled settlers to travel West in trains rather than in wagons 2. it provided the opportunity for people from the East to visit people in the West 3. it gave farmers and businessmen in the West a means of transporting their products back East as well as a way to ship supplies to the West from the East | |
| 620731808 | the man who founded Tuskegee Institute and said, "Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work." | Booker T. Washington | |
| 620731809 | how students at Tuskegee Institute earned money for books | they planted a garden and sold the surplus of their crops to earn money for books | |
| 620731810 | how Tuskegee Institute obtained more buildings | they made their own bricks and built their own buildings | |
| 620731811 | the decisive battle won by General Grant that cut the South in two | Vicksburg | |
| 620731812 | the Union general whose "march to the sea" hastened the end of the war | William T. Sherman | |
| 620731813 | the place where the South surrendered | Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia | |
| 620731814 | the man who assassinated President Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth | |
| 620731815 | the place where the transcontinental railroad was joined together | Promontory Point |
