| A | B |
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| MISSOURI COMPROMISE | Missouri became a slave state, Maine, a free state |
| COMPROMISE OF 1850 | California became a free state. Southwest territories would decide for themselves |
| KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT | People to decide the slavery issue - "popular sovereignty" |
| THE NORTH | An urban society in which people held jobs |
| THE SOUTH | An agricultural society - farms, villages, plantations |
| BORDER STATES | Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri |
| WEST VIRGINIA | Western counties of Virginia that refused to secede from the Union |
| THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS | Lincoln said Civil War was to preserve a gov't "of the people, by the people, and for the people." |
| JEFFERSON DAVIS | President of the Confederacy |
| ULYSSES S. GRANT | General of the Union Army that defeated Lee |
| ROBERT E LEE | Confederate general from Virginia |
| FREDERICK DOUGLASS | A former slave who escaped to the North and became an abolitionist |
| THE FIRING ON FORT SUMTER, S.C. | Event that began the Civil War |
| "STONEWALL" JACKSON | Confederate general from Virginia |
| FIRST BATTLE OF MANASSAS (BULL RUN) | First major battle of the Civil War |
| EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION | Made slavery the new focus of the Civil War |
| BATTLE OF VICKSBURG | This battle divided the South - North controlled the Mississippi |
| BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG | Turning point of the war - North repelled Lee's invasion |
| APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE | Lee surrendered to Grant here, ending the war |
| 1865 | Year Civil War ended |
