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Why were southerners opposed to the abolition of slavery?
It would ruin their economy
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Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
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The amendment that ended slavery.

The 13th

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What was the southern economy based on?
Cotton and Agriculture
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What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act declare?
Territories could use popular sovereignty to decide if they would enter the Union as a slave state
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Who killed Abraham Lincoln?

John Wilkes Booth

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The amendment which states that no one can be kept from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" is the
15th
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which slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?

Freed only slaves in the Confederacy

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What political party did the north follow?
Republicans
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Who provided the eulogy at Lincoln's funeral?

Fredrick Douglass

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The Freedman’s Bureau was established to:
provide former slaves with food, clothing, and education
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What is Conscription?

Forcing people to serve in the military during a time of national crisis

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This event triggered the Secession Crisis that directly caused the war
Election of Lincoln
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Who passed the Indian removal act?

Andrew Jackson

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The amendment which made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the country was the
14th
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What was the North's economy based on?

Industrial / factories

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What law caused the Indian Removal Act?

The homestead act

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Who lead the Raid on Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
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were codes that were designed to give the state control over blacks' behavior, and particularly, their labor. They placed harsh economic and social restrictions on the blacks.
Black codes
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What was the twelve-year period following the U.S. Civil War in which the South's social, economic, and political systems had to be rebuilt?
Reconstruction