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100
In the 1800, what did the Southern economy depend on most?
What is cotton?
100
What did southerns call northerners who moved to the south to start businesses after the Civil War?
What are carpetbaggers?
100
This political party opposed the spread of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
100

What was the result of total war?

The South's fighting spirit was broken, and total destruction of the South.

100

What is the name of the document Lincoln signed that freed slaves in territories fighting the Union?

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

200
This was a tax on imported goods and led to conflict between the north and the south.
What are tariffs?
200

Southerners were more skilled at hunting, shooting, and riding. Was this statement true for the Confederacy or the Union?

True for the Confederacy

200
A Supreme Court Case that ruled that slaves taken to free states were still slaves
What is the Dred Scott decision?
200

What was the first battle of the Civil War?

What was the First Battle of Bull Run or Manassas?

200

Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?

What is Appomattox Courthouse?

300

People who helped lead escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad were called ________.

What are conductors?

300

This book outraged southerners, claiming it was propaganda.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

300
A government program that provided food, clothing, shelter, and legal help to African Americans and whites.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
300

Give an example of how African Americans were involved in the Civil War

Many African Americans fought for the Union, deliberately damaged equipment in the South, worked as cooks, worked on Navy ships, were spies.

300

What is the name of the time period after the Civil War in which a new South emerged?

What is Reconstruction?

400

He led a slave revolt in Harper's Ferry in Virginia.

Who is John Brown?

400

Which state was the first to secede after the election of 1860? 

What is South Carolina?

400

Give an example of how African Americans were involved in politics during Reconstruction.

1) Many AA ran for public office 2) Many AA were elected to Congress and local government positions

400

Name a new weapon that was used during the Civil War?

What are ironclads, air balloons, repeating rifles, or the gatling gun?

400

As African Americans began to gain rights after the Civil War, what was one method used to prevent them from voting?

What are poll tax, literacy test, or Jim Crow laws?

500

Name three Southern advantages to fighting the war.

What are experienced generals, horse riders, knowledge of terrain, and help from locals?

500

Under the Missouri Compromise, what balanced Missouri's admission to the Union as a slave state?

Maine was admitted as a free state.

500

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act affect states above the Missouri Compromise line?

People in the new territories could vote to be a slave or free state (popular sovereignty).

500

What were 2 effects of the Civil War?

What are reunited the country and ended slavery?

500

Which Amendment ended slavery and forced labor?

What is the 13th Amendment?