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Causes
Slavery
Leaders
Battles
War Geography
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Why did Uncle Tom's Cabin anger Northern abolitionist?
This book described how badly the slaves were treated.
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People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
abolitionists
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How did Abraham Lincoln die?
He was assassinated while watching a play with his wife.
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What was the first battle that began the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
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Who won the Civil War?
North
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What is the tax called that Congress imposed on foreign products?
Tariff
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What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
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Who was the major Union General?
Ulysses S. Grant
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What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
Gettysburg, PA
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The Union represented the __________ part of the US and the Confederacy represented the ________ part.
Northern; Southern
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What about the northern economy made slavery less necessary?
The north was more industrial and didn't have large plantations
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Who were two major Confederate Generals?
Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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What was the South's war strategy?
Secure a good defensive position and wait fort the Union to attack.
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In what part of the US were more battles fought: the North or the South?
The South
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What was the North's original reason for fighting the Civil War?
They want to reunite the states and restore the Union.
400
What about the southern economy made slavery seem necessary?
They were primarily agricultural and needed labor to help grow crops
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What was the title of the speech Lincoln gave to free slaves?
The Emancipation Proclamation
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What was the North's war strategy?
To attack constantly on every front until the South ran out of soldiers.
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What were some effects of the war on the South?
Cities, buildings, and plantations were burned and destroyed. The results of the fighting were devastating.
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What was the Confederacy's original reason for fighting the Civil War?
The issue of states' rights
500
Who was Harriet Tubman and how did she contribute to the Civil War?
She was an escaped slave that created the Underground Railroad
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Who was the President of the Union and who was the President of the Confederacy?
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
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What was one of the last battles of the Civil War where the Confederacy surrendered?
Appomattox Courthouse
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What were the effects of the war on the North?
Because most of the battles were fought in the South, the North did not suffer nearly as much