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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beacher Stowe
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People who didn’t believe slavery should be legal were called?

abolitionists

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Who was the President of the Union
Abraham Lincoln
100

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, PA
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What allowed the Union to move troops and supplies more quickly?

Railroads

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Who won the election of 1860?

Abraham Lincoln

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What about the northern economy made slavery less necessary?

industry/factories

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Who were two major Confederate Generals?

Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

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What was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War?
Antietam
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Stephen A. Douglas introduced this to settle the issue of slavery in the territories?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act 

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What state seceded first?

South Carolina

400

What was the underground railroad?

escape route for slaves

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What was the title of the speech Lincoln gave to free slaves?

The Emancipation Proclamation

400

What was the name of the union strategy to surround the South and strangle it

Anaconda Plan

400

The battle between the Virginia and the monitor was a battle between two of these types of ship?

ironclads

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Besides slavery, what other major issue increased tensions between the Union and Confederacy?
The issue of states' rights
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This abolitionist leader was born into slavery and escaped to become one of the most famous intellectuals of his time?

Frederick Douglass

500

How did Lincoln die?

He was assassinated while watching a play with his wife.

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What was one of the last battles of the Civil War where the Confederacy surrendered?

Appomattox Courthouse

500

Name the 4 "border" states?

West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland