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Harriet Stowe wrote __________, a book that shocked northerners and southerners called propoganda
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The new plated warships that ended years of wooden ship warfare were called:
Ironclads
a secret society called ____________ aimed to terrorize black people and their white allies.
Ku Klux Klan
The Civil war was between the north and south, or:
Union and Confederate
A border state is:
a slave state that did not secede
The Kansas-Nebraska Act enraged Southerners because the new territory location meant:
they would both become free states
Kentucky decided to support the North after the South:
invaded
Lincoln's 10 percent plan stated that as soon as 10% of voters signed a loyalty oath, their state could do 2 things:
create a new government, and send members to Congress again
In ____, Lee finally was caught and surrendered
1865
The 13th amendment outlawed _____ while the 15th gave African American men ____________.
slavery, the right to vote
John Brown attacked Harper's Ferry, _______ in a revolt against slavery, but was captured and killed.
Virginia
The North planned to cut off supplies and take control of the Mississippi River, while the South simply planned
to defend until the North got tired
___________, a Confederate sympathizer, assassinated Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln was killed just _______ after the Civil War concluded.
5 days
Boys as young as __ could join the army during the Civil War
14
Abe Lincoln ran against ___________, an Illinois senator
Stephen Douglas
___ thousand soldiers died during the war, making it the #_ bloodiest battle in American history.
620, 1
The Radical republicans in the Congress had two key goals: to prevent ____________ and to protect ________________
Confederates from taking over again, Freedmen's right to vote
Lincoln held the Gettysburg Address to:
Honor the fallen soldiers
Southern states lacked __________, and the freedmen's Bureau helped create more, to the joy of southern African Americans
public education
Abe Lincoln, after it was over, said about the Civil War: "Both parties condemned war, but one ______________ and the other _____________".
would rather make war than let the nation survive, would rather accept war than let the nation die
General ____________ believed in total war, burning his way through Atlanta and leaving a trail of destruction 60 miles wide
William Tecumseh Sherman
The 1876 candidate running against Rutherford B Hayes, ____________, wanted to end Reconstruction
Samuel J Tilden
During this battle, 24,000 casualties were recorded, while the Union gained control of parts of Tennessee and The Mississippi River
The Battle of Shiloh
_________ was the woman who both Douglas and Lincoln wanted to marry, in the end, she chose Lincoln.
Mary Todd