Civil War Study Guide – Unit test September 18th

Please study the following vocabulary words, events and people. More information can be found in each students’ social studies notebook. They have taken notes and have short paragraphs that contain all the information they need to study. More information will be added to the notebook as we work through the remaining sections of the Civil War Unit.

1. 
   Identify Uncle Tom’s Cabin and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, and
   

2. 
   Discuss how the issues of states’ rights and slavery increased tensions between
   

3. 
   Identify major battles and campaigns: Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, the Atlanta
   

d. Describe the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant,

Jefferson Davis, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

e. Describe the effects of war on the North and South.

Flashcards have been made for each of these vocabulary words:

Civil War – a war fought between people of the same country

Abolitionist – someone who wanted to end slavery

Slave State – state that allowed slavery

Free State – state that did not allow slavery

Border State – slave state that remained part of the Union, they did not secede

Fugitive – a person who is running away

Secession – when part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest (the southern states left the United States, or seceded)

Sectionalism – loyalty to one part of the country

States’ rights – idea that states, not the federal government, should make the final decisions about what affects them.

Union - another name for the United States

Confederacy – name chosen for the states that left the Union at the time of the Civil War

Emancipation – Given by Abraham Lincoln, the freeing of enslaved people

General of the Confederate Army