How did the 13th Amendment protect the right of freedom?
It outlawed slavery.
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What abolitionist book was an emotional argument against slavery?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Which amendment gave black men the right to vote?
The 15th Amendment
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What did "conductors" on the Underground Railroad do?
Led escaping slaves to a series of safe houses
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What political party was created as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Republican Party
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What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
To free slaves in Confederate states
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Wo gave speeches and wrote pieces that told the Union's goals during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
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Why did the Southern states secede after Lincoln was elected?
They thought he would ban slavery.
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What were the goals of the Freedman's Bureau Act?
To help freed slaves and refugees of war.
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After the Civil War what was the most important thing President Johnson wanted to deal with?
Figuring out how to get Confederate states back into the Union as fast as possible.
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What did President Johnson do that angered Republicans that were trying to make changes?
He vetoed legislation that aimed to keep power away from former slave owners.
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What laws did most Southerners support during Reconstruction?
Black Codes
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How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 determine the status of slavery in those states?
The residents got to choose if the wanted slavery or not.
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What group benefitted from the tariffs of the 1820s and 1830s?
Northern manufacturers
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What was the result of John Brown's unsuccessful raid on the Harper's Ferry Armory?
Tensions grew between the North and South.
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How was sharecropping similar to slavery?
Black tenant farmers stayed in debt due to the landowners randomly making up prices that were charged for seeds and supplies the sharecroppers bought from them.
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Before the Civil War what caused issues between the North and the South?
Slavery spreading into the territories
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How did the Louisiana Purchase assist in problems that led to the Civil War?
It brought up the issue of whether or not to allow slaves in territories.
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How did Congress's Reconstruction plan differ from President Johnson's?
Congress wanted to protect the rights of freed slaves, Johnson did not.
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What was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Missouri Compromise
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Why did John Brown want to raid Harper's Ferry?
He opposed slavery.
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Who were the winners in the Dred Scott case?
Southern slave holders
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Why was the doctrine of states' rights a reason for the start of the Civil War?