Secede means to withdraw from membership in a group.
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What was the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
The Massachusetts Regiment was the most famous African-American regiment that fought in the Civil War. Frederick Douglass (remember him?) recruited members to serve in the regiment.
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What is a scalawag?
A scalawag is a white southerner who supported the Republicans during reconstruction.
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Who were the two presidents of the Civil War and what were they presidents of?
President Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States. President Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States.
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin and what was it about?
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It showed the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act.
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What is the Confederacy?
The Confederacy consists of all the southern states that seceded from the United States.
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What is total war?
Total war was Ulysses S. Grant's plan to lead the Union Army to victory. He ordered the generals to destroy food, equipment, and anything else that might be useful to the Confederate Army. Total war affected the civilians just as much as the soldiers.
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What is a carpetbagger?
Carpetbaggers were people from the North who moved to the South hoping to get rich by helping to rebuild.
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What were President Jefferson Davis' strengths?
Jefferson Davis was a strong military leader who served in the Mexican-American War. He also served as the Secretary of War. He was a strong believer of states' rights.
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What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of 1850. It required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves.
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What is Republican?
The Republican was the political party established in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories.
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What did women do during the Civil War?
Women took jobs in industry and on farms. They supplied the troops with food, bedding, clothing, and medicine. they held fundraisers to pay for supplies. Some women became nurses and spies.
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What crop did southern farmers increase by planting more?
Southern farmers increased their tobacco crops.
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What were Abraham Lincoln's strengths and weaknesses?
Abraham Lincoln was not an experienced politician and did not know much about military matters. He was found to be a strong and patient leader.
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Who was Cordelia Harvey?
Cordelia Harvey was a woman who persuaded President Lincoln to fund a hospital for Civil War casualties.
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What is reconstruction?
Reconstruction is the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War.
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What were the Confederate Army's strategies for victory?
The Confederate Army fought a defensive war. They counted on European money and supplies. They hoped the war would become unpopular in the North and that President Lincoln would stop the war.
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What two things did the South do to build up their economy?
The South began to use its natural resources to build the economy. They also built textile mills to convert cotton into cloth.
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What was the Gettysburg Address?
President Lincoln gave the two minute speech to dedicate a Civil War cemetery located on the Gettysburg Battlefield. It is one of his most famous speeches but he thought it was awful and wouldn't be remembered.
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Who was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
Sarah Emma Edmonds dressed up as a man and joined the Union Army. She operated as a spy gaining secrets from the Confederacy.
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What is popular sovereignty?
Popular sovereignty stated that the western territories could decide on their own whether to allow slavery or not.
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What was the Union Army's strategy for victory?
The Union Army fought an offensive war. They wanted to gain control of the Confederate States capitol of Richmond, VA. They also wanted to cut off all supplies to the South. they set up blockades to stop all trade with England. They also gained control of the Mississippi River so the South couldn't supply themselves.
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What natural resources did the southerners discover?
Southerners tapped into mineral resources of iron ore and coal. Alabama became a center of the steel industry and oil sprang up in Texas and Louisiana.
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What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Ratified while President Lincoln was in office, the Thirteenth Amendment freed all slaves and banned involuntary servitude in the United States and US Territories. President Lincoln did not live to see it passed.
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What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Missouri Compromise was designed to keep the number of slave states and free states equal. Missouri was admitted as slave state and Maine was admitted as free state. An imaginary line was drawn across Missouri's southern border. States north of the line were free, states south of the line were slave. This compromise was only valid for the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.