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TRUE or FALSE:
Most Southerners owned slaves by the time of Civil War?
FALSE
Which invention made communication over long distances much easier in the 1800's?
The telegraph
This President expanded voting rights for the common white man, was also known as "Old Hickory".
Andrew Jackson
Which invention had the unintended consequence of expanding slavery?
The Cotton Gin
In 1830, this law was passed to give the Federal Government the power to remove Native Americans from their land.
Indian Removal Act
Which current state was the Federal Government relocating Native Americans to in the early 1800's?
Oklahoma
Who was John Brown?
A northern abolitionist who used violence to try to end Slavery.
Over the conflicts between Mexico, Texas, and the United States which territories were gained by the U.S.?
Texas and the Mexican Cession
The economy of the North in the 1800's was known for:
Industry, manufacturing, trade.
Why was the annexation of Texas largely opposed in the North?
Texas, as a state, would continue to allow slavery.
This was used by politicians like Stephen Douglas to allow the people in new states to decide on whether or not there would be slavery:
Popular Sovereignty
How did slavery complicate Westward Expansion?
The balance of free and slave states would be thrown off, so one group would become more powerful in congress.
What was the major advantage of the Confederates in the Civil War?
Better military leadership
The belief that it was America’s destiny to conquer and civilize all of North America is known as this:
Manifest Destiny
Which battle was the first real battle of the Civil War?
Ft. Sumter
Some historians claim that _________ ________ was the beginning of the Civil War, due to the pro and anti slavery citizens fighting during the 1850's.
Bleeding Kansas
What type of War did General Sherman wage on his March to the Sea?
Total War
Why was medical care so bad for soldiers during the Civil War?
Disease, infection, unsanitary conditions, no pain medications.
The Emancipation Proclamation did NOT free slaves where?
In the slave states that remained in the Union (Border States)
The capture of Vicksburg and New Orleans by the Union was a critical part of the __________ Plan.
Anaconda
Which practice replaced slavery in an economic terms in the south?
Sharecropping
What legal practices were put in place in the South to replace Slave Laws?
Black Codes and the Jim Crow Laws?
Which landmark Supreme Court case legalized segregation by claiming in short that, "separate but equal".
Plessy v. Ferguson
Describe each of the Reconstruction Amendments:
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What happened in Virginia after Nat Turner's rebellion?
The Virginia legislature made it illegal for slave owners to teach their slaves to read or write.