Term
1. What was the economy of the Southern states based on? |
|
Definition
Agriculture and it relied on slave labor. |
|
|
Term
2. What was the economy of the Northern states based on |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Growing crops and livestock |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
The commercial production and sale of goods and services. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
A state where slavery is not allowed |
|
|
Term
6. What is a slave state? |
|
Definition
A state where slavery is allowed |
|
|
Term
7. What did the Northern states want new states to become? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
8. What did the Southern states want the new states to become? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
9. Where were the new states coming from? |
|
Definition
The were being created out of the western territories |
|
|
Term
10. What conflicts developed between the northern and southern states in the years following the American Revolution and led to the Civil War? |
|
Definition
"* The North was industrialized and the South was agricultural and depended on slaves. *North wanted the new states to be ""free states"" and the south wanted them to be ""slave states""." |
|
|
Term
11. What did Nat Turner do? |
|
Definition
He led a revolt against plantation owners in Virginia |
|
|
Term
12. What did abolitionists do? |
|
Definition
They campaigned to end slaver |
|
|
Term
13. What did Harriet Tubman do? |
|
Definition
She established a route that escaped slaves took? |
|
|
Term
14. What was the route that Harriett Tubman established called? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
15. What did John Brown do? |
|
Definition
"He led a raid in the United States Armory (Arsenal) at Harpers Ferry, Virginia." |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
A place where ammunition is stored. |
|
|
Term
17. Why did John Brown lead a raid on the Armory at Harpers Ferry? |
|
Definition
He was trying to start a slave rebellion |
|
|
Term
18. What happened to John Brown? |
|
Definition
He was captured and hanged |
|
|
Term
19. When did Abraham Lincoln become President of the United States? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
20. What happened when Lincoln was elected president? |
|
Definition
"Several southern states seceded, then other southern states joined them." |
|
|
Term
21. What did the southern states form? |
|
Definition
The Confederate States of America. |
|
|
Term
22. What did Virginia do when the southern states seceded? |
|
Definition
They joined the Confederate United States of America. |
|
|
Term
23. What did the eastern and western counties of Virginia disagree about? |
|
Definition
The eastern counties favored slavery and the western counties favored the abolition of slavery. |
|
|
Term
24. What happened because of the disagreement between the eastern and western counties of Virginia? |
|
Definition
The western counties broke away and formed West Virginia? |
|
|
Term
25. What was the first major clash/ battle of the Civil War? |
|
Definition
The first Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas) |
|
|
Term
26. Who played a major role in the first Battle of Bull? |
|
Definition
"Confederate General Thomas ""Stonewall"" Jackson?" |
|
|
Term
27. Who was the Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
28. Where did General Robert E. Lee defeat the Union troops. |
|
Definition
"Fredericksburg, Virginia" |
|
|
Term
29. Where was the capital of the Confederacy |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
30. Who did Richmond fall to near the end of the Civil War? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
31. What happened to Richmond near the end of the Civil War? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
"The closing off of a city, coast or harbor to communications and supplies by ship from the opposing side" |
|
|
Term
33. What did Lincoln do to try to keep the southern ports from getting supplies? |
|
Definition
He used the Union Navy to make a blockade. |
|
|
Term
34. What was the Monitor? |
|
Definition
It was a Union iron-clad ship. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
It was a Confederate iron-clad ship |
|
|
Term
36. Where did the Monitor and the Merrimack fight? |
|
Definition
In Virginia waters off the coast of Hampton and Norfolk? |
|
|
Term
37. Who won between the Monitor and the Merrimack? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
38. Where did the Civil War end? |
|
Definition
At Appomattox Court House in Virginia |
|
|
Term
39. When did the Civil War end? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
40 How did the Civil War end? |
|
Definition
General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to General Ulysses S. Grant. |
|
|