history chapter 10 10.1-10.2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Invented the cotton gin | Eli Whitney |
| Two crops that were important to the economy in the south | cotton, tobacco |
| People who spent time trying to outlaw slavery | abolitionist |
| The system of escape routes and hiding places for slaves | underground railroad |
| Famous leader of the underground railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| A decision to try to satisfy both sides of an argument | compromise |
| Established the conditions in which states would enter the Union a slave states or free states | Missouri Compromise |
| Lincoln had a successful career as a | Lawyer |
| Lincoln was our ----President | 16th |
| The southern states that left the Union were called | The Confederate States of America |
| President of the confederacy | Jefferson Davis |
| First battle of the Civil War was at | Fort Sumpter in 1861 |
| Unions ironclad ship | Monitor |
| General who was commander of a Union armies in 1864 | Ulysses Grant |
| An immediate result of the Emancipation Proclamation | slaves were freed |
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