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Causes of the Civil War Part I
Causes of the Civil War Part II
Civil War Part I
Civil War Part II
Civil War Part III
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Disputes over taxes on imports favored by the North but not the South before the Civil War?
What are tariffs?
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Maine becomes a free state and Missouri becomes a slave state.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
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After South Carolina ten more states left the Union forming this new union.
What is the Confederate States of America?
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This Civil War invention was the 19th century form of email or Twitter.
What is the telegraph?
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In 1864 Abraham Lincoln believed he needed this state to get reelected.
What is Nevada?
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Novel dramatizing the cruelties of slavery, touched readers emotionally and created widespread antislavery support among northerners. One of the most influential books ever written, it sold 300,000 copies the first year.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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1854 agreement which led to the event called "Bleeding Kansas."
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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The attack at this site starts the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
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This freed only the slaves in Confederate states that were still in rebellion against the Union. It did not free slaves in the border states loyal to the Union.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
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Sherman's March to Sea to end the "War of Rebellion" once and for all.
What is total War?
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American political party which formed to stop the spread of slavery to the American west.
What is the Republican Party?
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Considered by most historians the worst Supreme Court case in American history.
What was the Dred Scott case?
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General Pierre G.T. Beauregard General Braxton Bragg General Simon Bolivar Buckner General Jubal Early General Nathan Bedford Forrest General Ambrose P. Hill General John Bell Hood General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson General Albert Sidney Johnston General Joseph E. Johnston General James Longstreet General John C. Pemberton General J.E.B. (Jeb) Stuart
What are all Confederate generals?
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It swayed British support to the Union side and persuaded blacks to enlist in the Union army.
What was the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation?
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The site of the Confederate surrender on April 9, 1865.
What is Appomattox?
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California becomes a free state and popular Sovereignty is used in New Mexico and Utah territories to decide the issue of slavery.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
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Man who led the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859 to get weapons to attack slave owners.
Who was John Brown?
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Capture Richmond, the Confederate capital ♦ Blockade the South ♦ Split the Confederacy by gaining control of the Mississippi River
What is the Anaconda Plan?
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These two battles were the turning points of the Civil War.
What were the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
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Five days after the war ended, _________, an actor seeking vengence for the South, assassinated President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln died the next day, and Vice President Andrew Johnson became President. Johnson was a southern Democrat, from Tennessee, who remained loyal to the Union,
Who is John's Wilkes Booth?
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There were eight of these for the Illinois Senate seat in in 1858.
What were the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
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The South secedes the Union because of this event.
What was the Election of 1860?
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This lady established a precedent for female nurses in the Union Army. In 1881 she founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
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“Four score and seven years ago our Fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
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Official name given to the period right after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?