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Chapter 18 Review
1) Dred Scott – Enslaved African-American, sued in federal court seeking his freedom, but lost in a landmark
decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857
2) Kansas-Nebraska Act- Kansas and Nebraska were given the choice of entering the U.S. as a slave or free
state
3) John Brown – An abolitionist hanged for treason after his raid on a federal armory
4) Republican party – Northern members of the Whig party left in order to fight the spread of slavery
5) South Carolina – After Lincoln’s election, it was the first state to secede from the Union
6) Sam Houston - As governor of Texas, he spoke strongly against Texas joining the Confederacy
7) Albert Sidney Johnston – Second highest ranking Confederate army officer killed in the Battle of Shiloh
8) Colonel Santos Benavides – Led Texas troops in turning back Union forces at Laredo
9) Texas could ship cotton overseas through - Mexico
10) Why did the South think they could win the war? – They had the best military minds and it would be a
defensive war
11) What did Sam Houston warn Texas of? That the North would try to keep the Union together
12) What was the south’s greatest resource for trade? Cotton
13) General William Tecumseh Sherman – Burned down Atlanta and marched through Georgia and the
Carolina’s destroying everything in its path.
14) What was the condition of Texas after the war? – Texas was in a state of political and economic collapse
15) Where did most major battles in the Civil War take place? East of the Mississippi
16) What did General Grant fight hard for? Control of the Mississippi River Valley
17) What was the result of the Battle at Vicksburg? The Confederacy was split in two when Grant’s army and a
fleet of ironclad ships captured the city
18) Describe the Battle of Sabine Pass? Major Dick Dowling and 45 Davis Guards defeated 350 Union attackers
and captured 2 ships
19) Why did some German and Mexican Americans leave Texas during the war? The draft
20) Who defeated Robert E. Lee? Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
21) Where was the last battle of the Civil War? Palmito Ranch in Brownsville Texas
22) What freed the slaves? The Emancipation Proclamation
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Before the war, slaveholders argued in favor of states’ rights.