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Who was President of the Union during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
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What is the name of the new country formed by the states that decided to secede from the U.S.?
The Confederate States of America
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The Confederacy
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What does secede mean?
to break away from, to remove oneselve
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What battle started the Civil War?
The attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederacy. This was a Union Fort that was in a Confederate state. They had refused to surrender.
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Who was the leader of the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
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What is an abolitionist?
A person who wants slaves to be freed and for slavery to be permanently abolished.
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Who was the commanding General for the Union?
General Ulysses S. Grant
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Where were the first shots of the Civil War taken?
Fort Sumter
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Who gave the Gettysburg address?
President Abraham Lincoln
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Declared that slaves in the Confederate states were free.
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When it came to military leadership, who had the advantage?
The South
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Where was the federal arsenal that John Brown attempted to capture?
Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
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What was the name of the plan to blockade the Confederacy by sea and cut it in half on land?
The Anaconda Plan
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What was the Capital of the Confederacy?
Richmond
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What political party was strongly anti-slavery?
The Republican Party
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Name one major advantage the Union had in the war.
Larger Population, Abundant natural resources, more manufacturing and more railroads.
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What was the first great battle of the Civil War? This is the battle famous for having some civilians being spectators and some even having a picnic.
The Battle of Bull Run - July 1861 or the Battle of First Mannassas
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This act required Northerners to help catch slaves and return them to the South.
Fugitive Slave Act
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What was the name of the first Black regiment to fight in the Civil War?
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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Why did the Confederate Army end up in Gettysburg?
Because they wanted to take the shoes from the shoe factory.
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What was the name of the person who started the Red Cross and helped care for wounded Civil War soldiers?
Clara Barton
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What was the main means of economic production in the South?
Agriculture
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Where did Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army surrender?
Appomattox Court House
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Why were some northern factory workers opposed to abolition and emancipation?
They thought that freed African Americans would take their jobs.
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This capture of this city effectively cut the Confederacy in half.
Vicksburg
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Who was the Senator from Illinois who famously debated with Abraham Lincoln about slavery?
Stephen Douglas
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What state is Gettysburg in?
Pennsylvania
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Why did Lincoln fire General George McClellan after the Battle of Antietam?
Because he did not pursue the fleeing Confederate forces.
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Who was Jefferson Davis?
A Mississippi senator that became the President of the Confederate States of America.
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What battle is considered the "turning point" of the war?
the Battle of Gettysburg
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What was the first state to secede from the United States?
South Carolina
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What was the event that caused southern states to finally secede?
The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860
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Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
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The 1850 Compromise made which state a Free State.
California
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John Brown hoped to do what by attacking Harper's Ferry?
start a slave rebellion
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These 2 states were given popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery and was a cause of the Civil War.
Kansas and Nebraska
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What is the name of the civil right that Lincoln suspended during the Civil War that guaranteed arrested persons a chance to appear in court?
Habeas corpus
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In what month and year did the Civil War begin?
April 12, 1861
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What was the outcome of the Dred Scott case?
African Americans could not sue in the courts because they were not citizens.
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This Union general was given orders to use Total War to demoralize the South in his March to the Sea.
General William T. Sherman
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This abolitionist attacked Harper's Ferry Federal Arsenal.
John Brown
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Name the famous black abolitionist who criticized Lincoln's veto of the emancipation of slaves in Missouri. He later argued that Lincoln was in favor of abolition even if it did not look like it at first.
Frederick Douglass