Addi Alabama History Chapter 6 Study Guide

Match the following terms with their correct definitions:

• people who wanted to end slavery

• abolitionists

• another name for the United States

• secede

• withdraw

• states' rights

• the right of each state to make decisions for itself

• tariff

• a tax on goods that are brought into one country from another country to be sold

• union

List 3 things that the Northern and Southern states disagreed about that led to Alabama seceding from the Union.

• Slavery, tariffs, and transportation development

• Immigration, education, and healthcare

• Foreign policy, trade agreements, and technology

• Environmental regulations, labor laws, and taxation

The Civil War began when the Confederacy fired on US troops stationed in ____.

• Fort Sumter, SC.

• Fort Knox, KY.

• Fort Ticonderoga, NY.

• Fort McHenry, MD.

Alabama contributed to the war effort through:

• mineral resources and location

• agricultural production

• industrial manufacturing

• financial support

____ won the Civil War when the Confederacy surrendered in 1865.

• Union.

• Confederacy.

• British.

• French.

What is a person who is appointed or elected to act or speak on the behalf of others?

What is units of soldiers called?

What is a person who is injured, killed or captured during a war called?

What freed enslaved people in the Confederate states that were still at war with the union

What is a basic system that a society needs in order to function?