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100
Why were southerners opposed to the abolition of slavery?
It would ruin their economy
100
Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
100

What battle resulted in the loss of the Mississippi River to the Confederacy?

Battle of Vicksburg

100
In the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction, Republicans agreed to
withdraw federal troops from the South
100
What was the southern economy based on?
Cotton and Agriculture
200

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act declare?

Territories could use popular sovereignty to decide if they would enter the Union as a slave state

200
Who did General Lee surrender to at Appomattox Court House?
General Ulysses S. Grant
200
What marked the beginning of the Civil War?
Battle of Fort Sumter
200
The amendment which states that no one can be kept from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" is the
15th
200
which slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?
None (freed only slaves in the Confederacy)
300
What political party did the north follow?
Republicans
300
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
300
What battle was considered the turning point of the Civil War?
Gettysberg
300
The Freedman’s Bureau was established to:
provide former slaves with food, clothing, and education
300

Who was elected POTUS in 1876?

Rutherford B. Hayes

400
This event triggered the Secession Crisis that directly caused the war
Election of Lincoln
400
Who led a march from Atlanta to Savannah that destroyed buildings, farmland, and homes?
General William T. Sherman
400
What was the name for the Union strategy to win the war?
Anaconda plan
400
The amendment which made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the country was the
14th
400

What did the majority of women do during the Civil War?

Worked as nurses

500
What is Bloody Kansas?
Widespread violence across the territory over slavery
500

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?

He failed to enforce the law
500
What battle was the bloodiest day in America’s history? (at that time)
Battle of Antietam
500

These were created to placed harsh economic and social restrictions on former slaves

Black codes

500
What was the twelve-year period following the U.S. Civil War in which the South's social, economic, and political systems had to be rebuilt?
Reconstruction
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