| A | B |
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| tariff | a tax on goods traded with others |
| abolitionists | someone who is against slavery and hopes to abolish it |
| secede | to leave the Union |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States beginning with the election of 1860 and continuing until his death in 1865 |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the newly formed Confederate States of America |
| Robert E. Lee | General of the southern states during the Civil War |
| John Wilkes Booth | assassinated President Lincoln on April 14, 1865 |
| Fugitive Slave Law | this law required that run away slaves be returned to the south and to their owners |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | was outraged about the Fugitive Slave Law. She wrote a powerful novel that became a best selling book during this time. The title of the book was Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
| Republican | this party was formed out of the debate over slavery |
| President Lincoln was willing to fight the Civil War to... | preserve the Union. (keep it together) |
| Cotton Gin | invented by Eli Whitney - the machine would take seeds out of cotton which caused an increase in cotton production and need to keep slavery alive. |
| Irish immigrants | fled to the United States during the 1800's due mainly to the failure of the potato crops. |
| List two inventions that helped the U.S. economy grow and encouraged settlement | steamboat and railroad |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | balanced the number of slave and free states by allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state |
| Emancipation Proclamation | issued by President Lincoln; it freed slaves in states fighting against the Union. It really didn't free many slaves. The 13th amendment actually freed the slaves |
| 600,000 | over 600,000 men died in the four years war |
| South Carolina | first state to leave the Union |
| The 13 states who left the Union formed this new country | Confederacy or Confederate States of America |
| April 12, 1861 | The Civil War began with the attack on Ft. Sumter |
| April 9, 1865 | The Civil War ended with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia |
| Arguments between the North and the South grew more intense after the American Revolution. List three differences in the North and the South that were drawing them apart. Give a brief explanation of the difference | Refer to your notes on this question. |
| When California wanted to enter the Union as a free state in 1850, the South objected. What compromise was made to satisfy the South? | all territories could decide for themselves if they wanted slavery or not |
| John Brown | Be prepared to write a paragraph to support if you consider John Brown to be a freedom fighter or a terrorist. |
