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Besides state's rights, what other major issue increased tensions between the Union and Confederacy?

slavery
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People who to end slavery were called what?
abolitionists
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Who was the President of the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
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What was the first battle that began the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
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In what part of the US were more battles fought: the North or the South?
South
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Who raided Harper’s Ferry?
John Brown
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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
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The Union represented the __________ part of the US and the Confederacy represented the ________ part.
Northern; Southern
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Why did Uncle Tom’s Cabin anger southerners?
Because it depicted the evils of slavery
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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 was a major Confederate General?
Robert E. Lee 

Stonewall Jackson 

George Pickett

PTG Beauregard

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What was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War?
Antietam
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Who won the Civil War?
The Union (North)
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Why did John Brown raid Harper’s Ferry?
He wanted to steal weapons to start an anti-slavery rebellion
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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 document signed by Lincoln  to free slaves?
The Emancipation Proclamation
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What was the name of the union strategy to surround the South and strangle it?
Anaconda Plan
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Where did Sherman's March to the Sea begin and end
From Atlanta to Savannah
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Who was Harriet Tubman and how did she contribute to the Civil War?
She was an escaped slave who led many other slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad
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Who was president of the Confederate States of America?
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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Along what river was the South split in two?
The Mississippi