5th Grade Social Studies Flash Cards

_____- What are crops that are grown in large amounts that provide wealth?

_____- In the 1790's, Eli Whitney invented this machine which made processing cotton much easier.

_____- What was the South's most important crop? It made the landowners wealthy.

_ ____-What were huge farms where landowners raised cash crops?

_____- Being done with Slavery

_____- States that have slaves are known as this.

States with no slaves are known as ____.

_____- This helped keep peace between those who opposed slavery.

_____- This allowed California to become a free state in the union. Henry Clay helped.

_____- This person was a famous abolitionist who opposed slavery.

______ - was a fictional story that showed the cruelty of slavery.

______- All people in Kansas and Nebraska could have popular soverignty.

After the law was passed, people in Kansas who were against slavery and supported slavery became violent.

____ - This stated that northerners must return runaway slaves to their southern masters.

_____- This meant that if a slave was with his or her master and traveled into a free state, they aren't free.

_____- In 1859, his raid fought against a US arsenal. He lost his 3 children and his life.

_____- There were people who preached that states' rights and they believed that the federal government shouldn't tell states what to do.

_____- When Abe Lincoln became president.

He was the 11th president of the US during the civil war

_____- When Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas became a new nation.

_____- A war at South Carolina where the Confederates opened fire at the fort.

_____- War between the north and south.

_____- He was the overall commander of the Union Army during the final months of the Civil War.

_____- He was the Union general that captured Atlanta in 1864. He burned and killed most everything.

_____- He was the 1st and only president of the Confederrate States of America.

_____- Gifted general who commanded the Confederate Army. They surrendered to Grant at Appamatox Courthouse in 1865.

_____- He was Lee's most gifted general.

_____- Major battle between tow armies that happened in Bull Run Creek.

_____- Robert E. Lee tried to invade the north until Union soldiers found a copy in an abondoned camp and met them there in Maryland.

_____- The union stopped the Battle of Antietam and the victory gave Lincoln the support the needed to issue the order declared.

_____- A government's selection of people to serve in the military.

_____- To leave the army without the permission.

_____- A person who is not in the military.

_____- The strategy of destroying an enemy's resources.

_____- Soldiers who are killed or wounded.