Unit 8: Civil War & Reconstruction

A war in which opposing groups of people from the same country fight each other in order to gain political control

• Civil War

• World War I

• World War II

• American Revolution

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System of having slaves

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The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.

• National Rights

• Personal Rights

• State's Rights

• American Rights

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To be more concerned with the interests of your own group than with the interests of the larger group

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A tax on goods coming into a country or going out of a country

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The 5 slave states that did NOT leave the Union

• Northern States

• Southern States

• Western States

• Border States

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16th President of the United States, 1861 - 1865.

Leader of the country during the Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• James Buchanan

• Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Election where Lincoln became President of the U.S. Caused Southern states to leave the Union and form a new country, the Confederacy

• Election of 2008

• Election of 1860

• Election of 1856

• Election of 1864

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A method of sending messages using radio or electrical signals.

The 19th century version of Twitter

• Telegraph

• Telephone

• Teleprompter

• USPS

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Founder of the Red Cross

• Fredrick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln

• Clara Barton

• William Sherman

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