5th Grade Civil War Study Guide

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5th Grade Civil War Study Guide

• Mrs. Thornburgs Version

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This person led a raid on Harpers Ferry
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John Brown
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Who is a person that runs away from the law?
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Fugitive
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This is a war between opposing groups of the same
country
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Civil War
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The 11 Southern States that separated from the
United States in 1860
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Confederacy
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What is a tariff?
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Tariff is a tax charged by a government on
imported goods.
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What is discrimination?
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Discrimination is a treatment of people based on
a class or category rather than individual merit.
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This was a secret system that helped runaway
slaves escape to Canada or the free states.
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Underground Railroad
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These people printed antislavery newspapers and
spoke against slavery to try and end slavery.
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Abolitionists
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These people wanted more enslaved people to
produce cotton, and that was why it was so
important to Southerners.
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Southern Farmers
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In this case the Supreme Court ruled that slaves
were considered property, and therefore had no
rights.
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Dred Scott
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This law stated that escaped slaves found in the
North were required to be returned to their
owners in the South.
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Fugitive Slave Law
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What was the leading cause of conflict between
the North and the South?
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Each side disagreed about slavery
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Who believed that slavery was morally and
socially wrong?
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Abraham Lincoln
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What do we call a slave state that stayed in the
Union?
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Border States
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What do we call a state that did not have slavery?
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Free States
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What do we call authority carried out by the
people at large?
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Popular Sovereignty
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What caused the Civil War?
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The attack on Ft. Sumter
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What is another name for the United States?
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Union
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What do we call the withdrawal when a part of a
country leaves or breaks off from the rest?
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Secession
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This state was the very first state to secede (or
separate) from the UNION. (The North)
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SOUTH CAROLINA
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What do we call a state in which slavery is
allowed ?
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Slave States
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This is when something is given up by both sides
in order to reach an agreement to solve the
conflict.
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Compromise
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This person wrote Uncle Toms Cabin, which
described the suffering of slaves.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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This person ran for the Senate of Illinois as a
Republican AGAINST Abraham Lincoln
AGAINST
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Stephen Douglas
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He was the president of the
Confederate States ( South) of America
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Jefferson Davis
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He was a slave from Missouri that asked the
Supreme Court for his freedom.
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Dred Scott
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This person led slaves to freedom by the
Underground Railroad
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Harriet Tubman
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This person was born into slavery and later spoke
in favor of abolition and womens rights.
Remember that abolition means to end slavery!!
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Sojourner Truth
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This person was a well known abolitionist that
escaped from slavery. A writer that often spoke
to white audiences about slavery.
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Frederick Douglass
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This person printed anti-slavery newspapers
called the Liberator
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William Lloyd Garrison
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This person led a rebellion against slave owners
that resulted in the killing of 59 people. As a
result of this rebellion, southern states passed
laws to control both enslaved and free blacks.
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Nat Turner
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What were the differences between the North and
the South
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH
NORTH (UNION) SOUTH (CONFEDERATE)
ABOLISHED SLAVERY ALLOWED SLAVERY
INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
BELIEVED IN A STRONG FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BELIEVED IN STATES RIGHTS
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH
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The North abolish slavery and the South allowed
slavery
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH
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The North had a industrial economy and the South
had a agricultural (farming) economy
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH
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The North believed in a strong federal government
and the South believed in states rights.
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The ______Compromise gave popular sovereignty to
just SOME of the territories.
HINT Remember popular soverignty is when the
people of a state or territory get to make
decisions for themselves and the FEDERAL
government does not.
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The Missouri Compromise
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The Compromise of 1850 accepted what state as a
slave state ? What state as a free state? An
invisible line was created. Any territories SOUTH
of that line would allow slavery.
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Missouri- slave state Maine- Free State
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The Confederate states of America was created
when what happened?
NORTH (UNION)
SOUTH (CONFEDERATE)
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Several states seceded (separated) from the Union
(The North) They began a separate union or
country.
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The government tried to keep the states at peace
by allowing
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The same number of FREE states and SLAVE states
into the union. Before these areas were states
they were called territories.