Civil War – Fifth Grade Social Studies – Flashcards
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The "conductor" on the Underground Railroad.
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Harriet Tubman
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Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Won at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee, and Vicksburg in Mississippi; born in Ohio; elected president of the United States in 1869.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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an anti-slavery speaker and writer; published and abolitionist newspaper.
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Frederick Douglass
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How many former slaves earned a living following the Civil War.
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sharecropping
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What Jefferson Davis started to get enough soldiers for his army.
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draft
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The strategy Sherman used of destroying someone's resources.
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total war
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Some states passed laws making this legal after the Civil War.
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segregation
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Gave all men the right to vote, no matter what their color.
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Fifteenth Amendment
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Declared that states could not limit the rights of citizens. States could not take away life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
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Fourteenth Amendment
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Declared that slavery would not be allowed to exist in the United States. It ended the long argument in the United States over whether slavery should be legal.
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Thirteenth Amendment
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A nickname for laws that kept African Americans separate from other Americans.
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Jim Crow
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The year the United States ended slavery.
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1865
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The year the Civil War began.
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1861
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The murder of an important leader.
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assassination
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The period of time when the South rejoined the Union.
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Reconstruction
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Soldiers who were trained to fight on horseback.
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Cavalry
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Two major battles that the Union won that helped them move closer to winning the Civil War.
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Vicksburg and Gettysburg
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Union general; attacked Atlanta; marched to Savannah known as March to the Sea; used the total war strategy.
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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To leave the army without permission.
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desert
