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Who was President of the Union/The United States during the War Between the States?
Abraham Lincoln
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What is the name of the new country formed by the states that decided to secede from the U.S.?
The Confederate States of America
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The Confederacy
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These 2 states were given popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery and was a cause of the Civil War.
Kansas and Nebraska
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What battle started the Civil War?
The attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederacy. This was a Union Fort that was in a Confederate state. They had refused to surrender.
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Who was the leader of the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
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What was the first state to secede from the United States?
South Carolina
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This Supreme Court case was a victory for the South in that the Court said that African Americans were property.
Dred Scott
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Where were the first shots of the Civil War taken?
Fort Sumter
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Who was Harriet Tubman?
A "conductor" of the "Underground Railroad" who helped slaves escape to freedom.
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Declared that slaves in the Confederate states were free.
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When it came to leadership, who had the advantage?
The South
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Fighting for their way of life was an advantage to the?
Confederacy
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The Union used its Navy to create a _____________ along the coast of the Southern States.
Blockade
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Who was the commanding General for the Union?
General Ulysses S. Grant
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The economy of the south was heavily reliant on what specific crops?
Cotton.
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Name one major advantage the Union had in the war.
Larger Population, Abundant natural resources, more manufacturing and more railroads.
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What was the first great battle of the Civil War? This is the battle famous for having some civilians being spectators and some even having a picnic.
The Battle of Bull Run - July 1861
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Who won the civil war?
Union- the North
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What is an abolitionist?
A person who wants slaves to be freed and for slavery to be permanently abolished.
300
Where did Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army surrender?
Appomattox Court House
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Which was the first of the Southern States to secede?
South Carolina
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Who gave the Gettysburg address?
President Abraham Lincoln
400
What does secede mean?
to break away from, to remove oneselve
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What battle is considered the "turning point" of the war?
the Battle of Gettysburg
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This battle effectively cut the Confederacy in half.
Vicksburg
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This Confederate city at the mouth of the Mississippi River was the largest and busiest on the Gulf of Mexico.
New Orleans
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What state is Gettysburg in?
Pennsylvania
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Why did the North have an advantage in the war due to money?
The North had a single currency while each Confederate State had its own
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Who was Jefferson Davis?
A Mississippi senator that became the President of the Confederate States of America.
500
How many "border states" remained in the Union?
Five
Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, West Virginia and Kentucky.
500
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The woman who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" describing the cruelties of slavery.
500
What was the last event that occurred that forced the Southern States to secede?
The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860
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Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
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The 1850 Compromise made which state a Free State.
California
500
John Brown hoped to do what by attacking Harper's Ferry?
start a slave rebellion
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What was the Capital of the Confederacy
Richmond, Virginia
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This act required Northerners to help catch slaves and return them to the South.
Fugitive Slave Act
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Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Ford's Theater
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The name given to these taxes that were unfair and hurt the South while helping the North
Tariff of Abominations
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This Union general was given orders to use Total War to demoralize the South in his March to the Sea.
General William T. Sherman
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This abolitionist attacked Harper's Ferry Federal Arsenal.
John Brown
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What was the Capital of the Confederacy?
Richmond