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Ch 10 Division & Reunion
New World History & Geography
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History
6th Grade
03/10/2013

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Eli Whitney
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Invented the cotton gin in 1793 making cotton a cash crop for southern farmers
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Abolitionists
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Name for people who spent much time trying to outlaw slavery
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Sojourner Truth
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A freed black woman from New York who travelled throughout the North speaking against slavery(she was an abolitionist)
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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abolitionist writer from Connecticut- wrote the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin which described the evils of slavery
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Underground Railroad
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System of escape routes and hiding places in the 1800s between the South and Canada where runaway slaves escaped to the North
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Conductors
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name given to the people who helped the runaway slaves through different stations in the Underground Railroad
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Harriet Tubman
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The most famous leader of the Underground Railroad. She was an escaped slave from Maryland ( she made 19 dangerous trips to the South and helped over 300 escaped slaves)
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The Missouri Compromise
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In 1818 and 1819, Missouri and Maine wanted to join the union. Because each state would have two senators voting in the Senate, the Union wanted Missouri to come in as a slave state and Maine as a free state, keeping the balance between free and slave states in the Union.
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Tariffs
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Special TAXES from the Federal government on goods imported from other countries
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Abraham Lincoln
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16th President of the UNited States
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Abraham Lincoln's Famous Quote About a Divided House
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand" Abraham Lincoln
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Stephen A Douglas
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a democrat senator who sought to pass a bill that would allow settlers in new states to own slaves. Lincoln opposed him.
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the United CONFEDERATE States of America
( South Carolina,Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas)
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Fort Sumter
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The Civil War began when the Confederate forces fired on FORT SUMTER on April 12, 1861.
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Fredrick Douglass
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Black statesman helped Lincoln recruit blacks for the Union army
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Blockades
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Union ships sent to stop the South's trade with Europe, blocking major seaports
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Merrimack
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A Confederate ship covered with iron plates (ironclad ship) with a sharp piece of iron in front used to ram and destroy wooden Union ships
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Monitor
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The Union built this ironclad ship in response to the Confederates' Merrimack
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Emancipation Proclamation
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An announcement that all salves would be free in any states fighting against the North
England considered helping the South before this proclamation
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Ulysses's S. Grant
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General leader of the Union troops
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Robert E. Lee
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General leader of the Confederate troops
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Stonewall jackson
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One of the greatest military heroes of the circuit war, he earned the name "Stonewall" at the battle of Bull Run. He was a great general and Christian.
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Cotton and Tobacco
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Important cash crops of the South
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Define Compromise
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A decision that satisfies both sides of an argument
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Who LOST more battles than they won in the first 2 years of the Civil War?
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The North
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Battle of Gettysburg
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The turning point of the War
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Battle of Vicksburg
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Union army won control of the Mississippi River. the South was now cut in two.
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General Sherman's March to the Sea
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Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia and continued on to the Atlantic Coast
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Richmond, Virginia
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Home of the Confederate States
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Appomattox Court House, Virginia
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Where General Lee met General Grant to surrender
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The Civil War had settled two important issues
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1. No state could leave the Union
2. There would be no more slavery in the United States
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John Wilkes Booth
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Shot and killed President Lincoln at Ford's Theater
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Andrew Johnson
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Lincoln's Vice President who became President upon the death of Lincoln.
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"In God We Trust"
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Chosen by Salmon Chase to be put on all of the coins in the Union.
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Salmon Chase
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Came up with our first motto, "In God We Trust" which was put on Union coins during the Civil War
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New Songs sprang up from the Civil War
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These songs reflected the common bonds that remained of the North and South
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Clara Barton
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Founded the American Red Cross
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Pony Express
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A mail route used between Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California. It only lasted 19 months. It was replaced by the telegraph.
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Transcontinental Railroad
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A railroad that could connect the West with the East
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Thousands of people from China moved to California for this
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To get work laying the tracks for the Transcontinental Railroad
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Promontory Point, Utah
Definition
On May 10, 1869, a Union Pacific locomotive traveling west met a Central Pacific locomotive traveling east at Promontory Point, Utah.
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the Gold Spike
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One least spike was needed to connect the rails for the transcontinental railroad, so the held a ceremony to celebrate and marked the sot with a gold spike.
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Union Pacific and Central Pacific
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Two Railroad companies that worked together to connect the east to the west in railroad tracks.
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Booker T. Washington's famous quote
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"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."
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Booker T. Washington
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Famous Black Educator who loved learning and started a school in Tuskegee, Alabama known as the, "Tuskegee Institute"
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George Washington Carver
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Born a Slave, studied the uses of plants, named his laboratory, "God's Little Workshop"
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