Question | Answer |
Why was Missouri considered a border state? | Slave states that stayed inUnion
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What were the 4 border states? | Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, & Maryland
| What does it mean to secede? | Breaking away from the country
| What is an abolitionist? | People who fought against slavery
| What is guerrilla warfare? | A fighter who is part of a small band of fighters
| What does assassinate mean? | When a leader or famous person is killed
| What does decision mean? | making a choice
| What was the Dred Scott decision? | ruledslaves were property to be boughtsold
| Describe three important things about the Confederacy? | Rebels, South,
| Describe three important things about the Union? | North, Yankees, USA
| Describe three important things about Abraham Lincoln? | antislavery, elected
| What was the main reason for the Civil War? | slavery
| What does it mean to be disloyal? | not supporting something
| What was the first battle of the Civil War? | Ft. Sumter
| Who were the bushwackers? | MO guerilla fighters who supported the Conf.
| What was Order#11? | General Ewing ordered MO families to leave theirfarms
| Who was Claiborne Fox Jackson? | Governor of Missouri during the Civil War
| Who was Jefferson Davis? | president of the Confederacy
| Who was Ulysses S. Grant? | general of the Union
| Who was Robert E. Lee? | general of the Confederacy
| Who were the jayhawkers? | Groups of men from Kansas attacked Missouri farms |