What is the economic divide between North and South in the United States?
North relied heavily on Industry, South relied almost exclusively on slave labour
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Ended Slavery in the Confederate States
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How many were killed, wounded or missing at Gettysburg?
51,000
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Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
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Who was a violent abolitionist who fought at Bleeding Kansas and the Insurrection at Harpers Ferry?
John Brown
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Who was Abraham Lincoln's Wife
Mary Lincoln
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How many years are in four score and seven?
87
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Why was Lincoln Assassinated?
Sought to give the vote and other rights to black people
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How many Americans actually voted for Abe Lincoln in 1860
Less than 4 out of 10
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Who led the Union Forces in the Civil War?
Ulysses S. Grant
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What are at least two themes present in the Gettysburg Address?
Use of terms such as we, us, our
Repetition of certain words
Use of different times in history to project idea
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Where is Lincoln Buried?
Springfield, Illinois, his hometown
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Name 6 of the first 7 states to secede from the Union
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas
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Who led the Confederate forces in the Civil War
Robert E. Lee
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Why was Lincoln at Gettysburg that day?
To mark the commemoration of a National Cemetery
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Who became President following Lincoln's Assassination?
Vice President Andrew Johnson
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What was the Problem at Fort Sumter?
Confederates demands to take a Federal (Union) fort. Confederates decided to stop negotiating and opened fire on the fort on April 12, 1861.
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What sparked the New York Riots
Frustrations over having a war over slavery fought through the draft (conscription)
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What is the last line of the Gettysburg Address?
That the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth
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How was Lincoln a National Martyr?
He died for two causes he believed in (slavery abolishment and the reunion of the country) and his death was bemoaned by both Republicans and Democrats and he remains one of the greatest Presidents in American history.