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Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska act
Stephen A. Douglas.
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
abolitionists
Who was the President of the Union and who was the President of the Confederacy?
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
What was the first battle that began the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Where were most battles fought.
South
Who raided Harper’s Ferry?
John Brown
Who invented the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
Who was the major Union General?
Ulysses S. Grant
What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
Gettysburg, PA
The union were which kind of states
who wrote the compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
What about the northern economy made slavery less necessary?
Industrialization
Who was the major confederate general
Robert E. Lee
What was the first major Union victory.
Vicksburg
Who won the Civil War?
The Union
Who was denied freedom by court after his owner died
Dred Scott
What about the southern economy made slavery seem necessary?
Agriculture
What document freed the slaves in the south.
The Emancipation Proclamation
d what was the March to Sea?
The burning of buildings throughout Georgia
What Amendment freed the slaves forever in the USA
The thirteenth Amendment.
Besides slavery, what other major issue increased tensions between the Union and Confederacy?
The issue of states' rights
n Who founded the underground railroad
Who founded the underground railroad Harriet Tubman
How did Lincoln die?
He was assassinated while watching a play with his wife.
where did the Confederacy surrender.
Appomattox Courthouse
Who became president after Lincoln died