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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beacher Stowe
100
People who didn’t believe in the system of slavery and wanted to get rid of it were called what?
abolitionists
100
Who was the President of the Union and who was the President of the Confederacy?
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
100
What was the battle in South Carolina that began the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
100
In what part of the US were more battles fought: the North or the South?
South
200
Who raided Harper’s Ferry?
John Brown
200
What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
200
Who was the major Union General who planned to wage total war on the South?
Ulysses S. Grant
200
What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
The Battle of Gettysburg
200
The first state to succeed from the Union was?
South Carolina
300
Why did Uncle Tom’s Cabin anger northern abolitionists?
Because it depicted the evils of slavery
300
What about the northern economy made slavery less necessary?
The north was more industrial and didn't have large plantations
300
Name two major Confederate Generals?
Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
300
What battle was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War?
The Battle of Antietam
300
In what speech did Lincoln dedicated a battlefield in the honor of fallen soldiers?
The Gettysburg Address
400
Why did John Brown raid Harper’s Ferry?
He wanted to steal weapons to start an anti-slavery rebellion
400
What about the southern economy made slavery seem necessary?
They were primarily agricultural and needed labor to help grow crops
400
This freed the slaves in all rebelling states
The Emancipation Proclamation
400
What was the name of the union strategy to surround the South and strangle it ?
Anaconda Plan
400
What were some effects of the war on the South?
Cities, buildings, and plantations were burned and destroyed, slaves were freed in the former Confederacy
500
What event caused the South to feel like they had no say in the government and eventually succeeded the Union?
President Lincoln's Election
500
Who was Harriet Tubman and how did she contribute to the Civil War?
She was an escaped slave that created the Underground Railroad
500
After Lincoln died, who became president?
Andrew Johnson
500
What was one of the last battles of the Civil War where the Confederacy surrendered?
Appomattox Courthouse
500
What were the two leading causes of death during the Civil War?
disease and infection