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Abraham Lincoln was what # president?
16
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Who was the president of the US during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
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Which region's economy relied on slavery?
The South
100
The Civil War started where?
Ft. Sumter
100
Who won the Civil War?
The Union
200
Who was the Commander of the Union Army?
Ulysses S. Grant
200
Who was the Commander of the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
200
Why did the North benefit from tariffs?
They helped their economy; they encouraged people to buy American-made goods.
200
Where did General Lee surrender?
Appomattox Courthouse
200
The Confederacy was located in the ... ?
South
300
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
300
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
300
Slaves were a necessity in the South to work on __________ plantations.
Cotton
300
What is the bloodiest single-day battle?
Antietam
300
Where did General "Stonewall" Jackson get his name?
The Battle of Bull Run


400
Most people living in the North belonged to which political party?
Republicans
400
Who is known as the "Great Compromiser"?
Henry Clay
400
The Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned what?
The Missouri Compromise
400
Which of Lincoln's speeches strengthened the Union militarily and politically?
The Gettysburg Address
400
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed the slaves in the Confederacy
500
Which court case determined that slaves were property, and not citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
500
Who was the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor?
William P. Carney
500
Which compromise let California enter the Union as a free state and promised a more strict fugitive slave law?
Compromise of 1850
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Why was Gettysburg a turning point in the war?
The Confederacy turned around and went home; they never again attacked in the North
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What contribution did Frederick Douglass make to the Union Army?
He got free African Americans the ability to fight in the Union Army
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