Abeka 4th Grade History Test 4

Results of the Civil War

1. No slavery anymore 2. states couldn't secede anymore 3. sped up the development of industry 4. Federal Government had more power over the states

First Republican President

Abraham Lincoln

Frederick Douglass

An escaped slave who wrote about his life as a slave

Republican Party

Antislavery political party that formed in the 1850's.

John Wilkes Booth

Assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Richmond, Virginia

Capital of the Confederacy

Robert E. Lee

Commander of the Confederate Army

Merrimack

Confederate ironclad ship

South Carolina

First state to secede from the Union

Know the order of events (Which comes first): Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation 2. The Thirteenth Amendment is added to the Constitution.

Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and then the 13th Amendment was added to the Constitution.

Gettysburg Address

Lincoln's speech to honor fallen soldiers

Jefferon Davis

President of the Confederacy

Emancipation Proclamation

Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in states that had left the Union.

Know the order of events (Which comes first): 1. The Confederate States of America is formed 2. South Carolina seceded from the Union

South Carolina seceded from the Union first, and then the Confederate States of America was formed

Thomas Jackson

Stonewall Jackson

Fort Sumter

The first shots of the Civil War were fired in South Carolina

1861

The year the Civil War began

Battle of Gettysburg

Turning point of the Civil War

Dred Scott

United States slave who sued for liberty before the Supreme Court after living in a non-slave state

Underground Railroad

a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada

13th Amendment

abolished slavery

Compromise of 1850

attempted to balance the power in the Senate between free and slave states.

Transatlantic Slave Act

ended the practice of bringing slaves to America to be sold.

Thirteen Original Colonies

farthest east on the map

Fugitive Slave Act

included in the Compromise of 1850 and stated that the Northern States had to return any escaped slaves to the South.

Battle of Antietam

more soldiers died in one day here than in any other day in the Civil War

Ulysses S. Grant

nicknamed "Unconditional Surrender"

Harriet Tubman

personally led over 70 people to freedom on the Underground Railroad

Confederate States of America

the 11 southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Uncle Tom's Cabin

written by Harriet Beecher Stowe