8th Grade Antebellum and Civil War Review

When the United States government forced Native Americans to move from their homelands in the Southern United States to Indian Territory in Oklahoma

• Trail of Tears

• Secession

• Immigration

• French and Indian War

The states in the North or remaining United States.

• Confederacy

• Union

• North

• South

First battle of the Civil War where Confederates attacked the U.S. held fort in Charleston harbor

• Battle of Bull's Run

• Battle at Gettysburg

• Battle of Fort Sumter

• Battle at Yorktown

When part of one country breaks away, or leaves that country to start a new country

• Nullification Crisis

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism

• Secession

Theory that a state could nullify, or declare invalid, a federal act or tax within the state.

President of the Confederacy and leader of the Confederate Army

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

The South or states that left the U.S. to start their own country

• Confederacy

• Union

• North

• South

Deadliest day in U.S. history with over 22,000 soldiers killed in battle

• Battle of Shiloh

• Battle of Fort Sumter

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Antietam

An Abolitionist was a person who __________________

• fled slavery and moved to the North

• supported and advocated for the end of slavery

• Supported the separation of the North and South

• Fought for the Union and protection of slavery

_______________ was the largest city in the South and controlled the Mississippi River.