| A | B |
|---|
| Industrail Revolution | from muscle to machine power |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| Antebellum | before the war |
| Peculiar Insitution | a southern name for slavery |
| Abolitionists | poeple who want to abolish slavery |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Frederick Douglas | the leading black abolitionist who abolished slavery. He edited his own newspaper, The North Star |
| Grimke Sisters | from S.C., spoke out against slavery |
| Harriet Tubman | called "Moses" she lead the inderground railroad |
| Major cause of the Am. Civil War | slavery and its expansion |
| Zachary Taylor | elected s a whig, died in office |
| Millard Fillmore | last whig president, followed Taylor as president |
| Franklin Pierce | a democrat, served one term, had a drinking problem |
| James Buchanon | last democratic president before the war |
| Abraham Lincoln | helped to stop slavery, saved the union |
| secede | to leave the union, S.C. was the first |
| CSA | Confederate States of America |
| Gen. Robert E. Lee | became the major general |
| Gen. Thomas Jackson | "Stonewall Jackson," Lee's best field officer |
| Gen. Wade Hampton III | A famous CSA general, from S.C. |
| Ft. Sumter | firing on this fort started the Civil War |
| Anacconda Plan | the North's plan, to blockade the South's seaport, split the south by taking control of the Miss. River, & capture Richmond, VA. the confederate capital |
| Battle of Shiloh | the bloodiest battle up until that time in Am. history, Grant won at a high cost, 20,000 men lay dead |
| Battle of Antietam | after this battle, Lincoln issued the Epancipation Proclamation |
| Epancipation Proclamation | freed the slaves, only in the states rebelling |
| Thirtenth Amendment | ended slavery for everyone in the U.S. |
| Battle of Gettysburg | the turning point of the Civil War b/c the south never invaded the north again, Lee lost men they couldn't replace |
| Gen. Pickett's charge | a famous charge against the union center on the third day of Gettysburg, it failed |
| Vicksburg | when Grant captured this city, the north gained comtrol of the Miss. River |
| "Sherman's March to the Sea" | when he burned his way to the sea |
| Battle between Moniter and Merrimac | first battle between ironclads |
| Hunley | the first sub. to sink a ship |
| Robert Smalls | took The Planter to the union |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Lee surrendered to Grant, the war was over |
| John Wilkes Booth | shot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre |
| Ford's Theatre | Where Booth shot Lincoln |
| Seneca Falls | started women's rights movement. The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote |
| Nat Turner | largest/most bloody slave revolt |
| Denmark Vesey | plotted a slave revolt in Charleston |
| Dorothea Dix | head of the Union Army's Nurses |
| Clara Barton | served as a unoin nurse, and after the war established the America Red Cross |
| Mary Chesnut | wrote Diary from Dixie |
