When did the American Civil War happen? - answer1861-1865 When was Abraham Lincoln first elected? - answerNovember 6, 1860 When was Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration? - answerMarch 4, 1861 When was the Emancipation Proclamation announced? - answerSeptember 22, 1862 When did the Emancipation Proclamation become effective, or become law? - answerJanuary 1, 1863 When was the Battle of Gettysburg? - answerJuly, 1863 When did Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrender, or give up, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia? - answerApril 9, 1865 When was President Lincoln shot at Ford's Theater? - answerApril 14, 1865 What was the name of part of the country that seceded from the United States and became its own country? - answerThe Confederate States of America In what part of North America was the Confederacy, or Confederate States of America? - answerthe South What was the name used to describe the North, or the United States of America, during the Civil War? - answerThe Union Who was the President of the Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy? - answerJefferson Davis What is industry? - answerfactories and manufacturing What is agriculture? - answerfarming What was the economy of the North mostly based on during the American Civil War? - answerindustry What was the economy of the South mostly based on during the American Civil War? - answeragriculture What is the idea of "states' rights"? - answerStates should have more power than the federal, or national government. What does "federal" mean? - answerthe government of the whole country, or national government What happened at Fort Sumter? - answerConfederate troops attacked a Union fort, which started the Civil War Which happened first: the attack on Fort Sumter or the secession of South Carolina? - answersecession of South Carolina What does secession mean? - answerwhen one group breaks away from another group What does secede mean? - answerto break away from another group What is an abolitionist in the context of American history? - answersomeone who opposes, or goes against, slavery and wants slavery to end Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe? - answerthe author of the book called Uncle Tom's Cabin Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin a cause of the Civil War? - answerit attacked slavery and contributed to the growing anger between the North and the South Why was the Battle of Gettysburg a turning point in the Civil War? - answerit weakened the Confederate army and was the first in a number of major victories for the Union army Who were "contrabands" during the Civil War? - answerformer slaves who worked for the Union What was the Underground Railroad? - answera network of secret routes and safe houses What was the "March to the Sea"? - answerUnion General Sherman burned fields and destroyed parts of cities to weaken the Confederacy in Georgia What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? - answerannounced that all slaves in the Confederate territories would be free; showed Lincoln's commitment to ending slavery forever after the war Why did Lincoln say that the main goal of the war was to keep the Union together? - answerhe didn't want border states to think that he would end slavery and therefore cause them to join the Confederacy What did John Brown do in 1859? - answertried to steal government weapons from Harper's Ferry and give them to slaves for a slave rebellion What does inauguration mean? - answerthe President's first day on the job Harriet Beecher Stowe - answerauthor of Uncle Tom's Cabin, an abolitionist Uncle Tom's Cabin - answera novel published in 1852; portryed (showed) slavery as brutal and immoral Fugitive Slave Laws (1850) - answerseries of laws that required people in the North to turn in runaway, or fugitive, slaves Missouri Compromise of 1820 - answerallowed Missouri to enter the U.S. as a slave state, Maine to enter the U.S. as a free state; prohibited, or stopped, slavery north of latitude 36˚ within the Louisiana Territory (1820) abolitionist - answera person who wants to end something; in U.S. history, a person who wanted to end slavery Underground Railroad - answera system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada states' rights - answerthe idea that states should have more power than the national, or federal, government; the idea that states should be allowed to disobey national laws they don't like John Calhoun - answerSouth Carolina Senator - advocated, or spoke out, for states' rights and a smaller national, or federal, government Henry Clay - answerUnited States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states compromise - answera settlement of disagreements in which each side gives up something Dred Scott Decision (1857) - answerSupreme Court decision that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) - answera law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery; a law that effectively ended the Missouri Compromise of 1820 John Brown - answeran abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing weapons in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves; executed by hanging after his plans failed; sometimes viewed as a hero in the North Republican Party - answerU.S. political party founded, or started, in 1854; originally started to oppose, or go against, the spread of slavery before the Civil War; originally a party mostly for northerners Democratic Party - answerU.S. political party founded, or started, in 1828; originally advocated, or supported, the ideas of states' rights and a smaller national government James Buchanan - answer15th President of the United States (1857-1861) who tried to maintain, or keep, a balance between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups John C. Fremont - answerRepublican presidential candidate in 1856; first Republican to run for U.S. President Harpers Ferry - answerfederal armory, or weapons collection, in Virginia secede - answer(v.) to leave, withdraw, or break away from a group or government secession - answer(n.) the act of leaving, withdrawing, or breaking away from a group or