American Pageant 13th Edition Chapter 20
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| 48787878 | Jefferson Davis | First and only president of the Confederate States of America | |
| 48787879 | Fort Sumter | This fort in Charleston was fired upon by Carolinians in 1861 | |
| 48787880 | Richmond, Virginia | The new capital of the Confederacy | |
| 48787881 | Border States | These were the northernmost slave states that did not secede | |
| 48787882 | False | True or False: The Battle of Fort Sumter did not cause any states to secede | |
| 48787987 | True | True or False: Lincoln's goal for the civil war was to preserve the union, not end slavery | |
| 48788130 | Robert E. Lee | This confederate general was seen as an unstoppable force and was a tactical genius | |
| 48788131 | Thomas Jackson | This man was Robert E. Lee's chief lieutenant for much of the war. Some nicknamed him "Stonewall" | |
| 48788266 | The economy | This was the Union's greatest strength and the Confederacy's greatest weakness | |
| 48788364 | Army of the Potomac | The Union army commanded by McClellan and others to squash the Confederacy | |
| 48788471 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | This item prevented Britain and France from intervening in the war and helping the south | |
| 48788472 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | This woman wrote the incendiary novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | |
| 48788536 | Trent Affair | The incident in which a Union warship stopped a British steamer, the Trent, and removed two Confederate diplomats bound for Europe | |
| 48789074 | Maximilian | This man was made the emperor of Mexico by Napoleon III | |
| 48789075 | Conscription | This nationwide law of 1863 required young men to enlist in the army | |
| 48831973 | Morill Tariff | This tariff was passed once all the southern congressmen who opposed it had seceded | |
| 48831974 | Greenbacks | The name of the paper money used during war time | |
| 48831975 | National Banking Act | This act was passed to establish a standard bank-note currency | |
| 48831976 | Fifty-Niners | These were the men who rushed to Pennsylvania once oil was discovered there | |
| 48831977 | Homestead Act | This act, enacted in 1862, gave out free land to those who would settle it, improve it, and grow crops. | |
| 48831978 | Elizabeth Blackwell | This woman was the first physician and organized the U.S. Sanitary Commission to assist the Union | |
| 48831979 | New York | In which state did notable draft riots occur in? |