Vocabulary
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What was the name of the largest training area in Wisconsin during the Civil War?
Camp Randall
Which side opposed slavery?
Who was the President during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What year did Wisconsin become a state?
1848
official change to the constitution
amendment
Where was the Republican Party formed?
Ripon
Slaves in the South worked on what crop?
cotton
Old Abe became a symbol of what during the Civil War?
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separated or kept apart from the main group
segregated
What is the name of the act that required fugitive slaves to be brought back to their owner
The Fugitive Slave Act
What were the people called who opposed slavery before the Civil War?
abolitionists
Who was able to enlist in the army only after less white men volunteered?
African and Native Americans
Which Amendment ended slavery?
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13th amendment
withdrawing from or leaving from one organization, often to form another
secession
What is the name for a group of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North?
The Underground Railroad
Which southern state was the first to join the free states?
California
Who is commemorated in a statue at the state capitol for leading the Fighting 15th?
Colonel Hans Christian Heg
How many Wisconsin soldiers fought in the Civil War?
80,000
people working hard to end slavery before the Civil War
abolitionists
What is the name of Abraham Lincoln's speech declaring slaves in the Confederacy to be free?
Emancipation Proclamation
During the Civil War, the US was separated into what?
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Union and Confederacy
Who was Joshua Glover?
fugitive slave that escaped to Racine using the Underground Railroad and was re-captured but saved by Wisconsinites
1861-1865