Between Revolutionary and Civil War
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| 606713662 | Missouri Compromise | Created in 1820, this created a "line" that banned slavery north in the Louisiana Purchase-(36 degrees-30' North latitude). | |
| 606713666 | Secession | Act of formally withdrawing from the Union. | |
| 606713667 | Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America. | |
| 606713668 | Border states | Slave states that stayed with the Union | |
| 606713669 | Abraham Lincoln | The 16th President of the United States. First Republican President who wanted to stop the spread of slavery. | |
| 606713670 | Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court ruling that denied that African Americans had rights as citizens. | |
| 606713671 | Confederate States of America | - the nation that formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union; also known as the Confederacy | |
| 606713672 | Battle of Fort Sumter | The battle that led to the start of the Civil War. | |
| 606713673 | Robert E Lee | Leader of the Confederate army. | |
| 606713674 | The Battle of Antietam | The bloodiest single-day battle in American history. The first battle to take place in the North. | |
| 606713675 | Emancipation Proclamation | An order issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union; took effect January 1, 1863 | |
| 606713676 | General Ulysses S. Grant | The final and most effective leader of the Union Army. | |
| 606713677 | Sherman's March to the Sea | General Sherman's army was responsible for tremendous destruction from Atlanta to the Georgia seacost. The army destroyed Confederate supplies. | |
| 606713681 | Abolitionist | An individual who is against slavery. | |
| 606713683 | John Wilkes Booth | On April 14, 1865, just five days after Lee's surrender, this man assassinated President Lincoln while he attended a play at Ford's Theater. | |
| 606713684 | Underground Railroad | A system by which northern abolitionists smuggled escaped slaves to permanent freedom in the northern U.S. and Canada. | |
| 606713686 | Yankee | used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier) | |
| 606713687 | Compromise of 1850 | Forestalled the Civil War by instating the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and instating popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession | |
| 606713688 | Kansas Nebraska Act | 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. | |
| 606713689 | Manifest Destiny | the belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean | |
| 606713690 | Sequoyah | Cherokee Indian, best known for inventing a system for writing the Cherokee language | |
| 606723553 | Why did the capitals move | Population was moving | |
| 606723554 | The 2 largest church denominations in Ga | Baptist and Methodist | |
| 606723555 | What was the Land Lottery | chances given to get land, not all equal lots not all winners | |
| 606723556 | The Yazoo land fraud | Land lost by fraud | |
| 606723557 | What was the Headright system | system for given land away based on household and slaves | |
| 606726815 | What were the first 4 capitals | Savannah, Augusta, Louisville and Milledgeville | |
| 606731756 | What type of transportation was important in Ga Pre Civil War | Steamboat | |
| 606736349 | Battle of Antiham | Bloodiest day of the War | |
| 606736350 | Battle of Gettysburg | Turning point of the War | |
| 606783299 | WHat was the Main reason for the Civil War | States Rights | |
| 607116803 | Thomas RR Cobb | drafted a constitution for the confederacy | |
| 607116804 | What was the Gettysburg Address | urged the north to win the war to save the union | |
| 607116805 | Emancipation Proclamation | freed the slaves | |
| 607116806 | Jefferson Davis | President of the confederacy | |
| 607116807 | General of the South | robert e lee | |
| 607122299 | Importance of georgia in civil war | manufacured goods, weapons | |
| 607122300 | two sides in the civil war | north and south |
