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7th Ringcard 50-62
Ringcard Vocab 50-62
Question | Answer |
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Nullify | declare void or no longer good (cancel) |
Ordinance | a law or regulation |
Deposed | removed from office suddenly and forcefully. |
Abraham Lincoln | 16th president of the U.S. who was assassinated 5 days after the civil war ended. |
Robert E. Lee | General of the Confederate Army. |
Battle of Gettysburg | Turning point of the civil war for the North. |
Fort Sumter | where the first shots of the civil war were fired. (South Carolina) |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin | a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that depected the evils of slavery. |
Confederacy | Southern States that seceded from the Union. |
Union | Northern States |
American Civil War | fought from 1861-1865 between the northern non-slave states (Union) and the southern pro-slave states (Confederacy). |
Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy during the Civil War. |
Battle of Bull Run | the first major land battle of the Civil War fought near Manassas, Virginia which ended in a Confederate victory. |