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100
These are three of the advantages that the North had at the beginning of the Civil War.
What are more miles of railroad, a greater population, more money, more factotires, and a determined leader in Abraham Lincoln?
100
These are two of the advantages that the South had at the beginning of the Civil War.
What are the best generals in the country, better sharpshooters, and knowledge of the battlefield terrains since they were defending their homeland?
100
This is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumpter?
100
Mobilize
What is to prepare for war?
100
These are the two compromises that were meant to keep the North and South from going to war.
What are the Missouri Compromise and The Compromise of 1850.
200
The name of the strategy that the North used to win the Civil War.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
These are the three groups that gained power in the South during Reconstruction.
What are African Americans, scalawags, and carpetbaggers?
200
The effect of the First Battle of Bull Run
What is the South defeated North showing that they would not easily be defeated?
200
Segregation.
What is keeping different races apart?
200
These are two of the events that caused more tension between the North and South and/or undid the earlier Compromises.
What are the Kansas/Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Decision, John Brown revolt, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's book 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
300
The main reason Grant was able to succeed in destroying the Confederacy.
What was the destruction of the farms factories, and railroads that supported the Southern soldiers...or total war?
300
This is the system that allowed former slaves and poor people to farm the land in order to make a living. Many times it caused these people to go further into debt.
What is sharecropping?
300
This is what made the battles of the Civil War different from all other wars...due to it being the first modern war.
What are the high number of casualties?
300
When a state leaves the Union.
What is secede?
300
The final cause that led to South Carolina seceding from the Union.
What is the election of anti-slavery candidate Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States?
400
This was how African Americans helped the war effort.
What is by fighting as soldiers?
400
This is one difference between Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.
What is A.L. led the Union while J.D. headed the Confederacy, A.L. was a lawyer whereas J.D. was a military man, A.L. and J.D. had opposite views on slavery, or J.D. lived to be 81 years old but A.L. was assisinated in his late 50's?
400
The reason Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.
What is to tell the people that their sacrifices were not in vain and that it is up to the living to continue what the dead had fought for?
400
To accuse a president of being unfit for office.
What is impeach?
400
These are two facts about the emancipation proclamation.
What are 'it freed all slaves in states that were in rebellion against the Union', 'took effect on January 1, 1864', and 'it changed the role of African Americans in the Civil war, allowing them to fight'.
500
This is one similarity between Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.
What is 'they were both President of their nation', 'they were both elected to US Congress', or 'they were both born in Kentucky, then later moved to another state'?
500
These are two ways Grant's strategy for winning the war affected the Southern civilians.
What are shortages of food, inflation, and caused the Confederacy to enact a draft system?
500
This is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
What is Appamatox Courthouse?
500
Contraband.
What is property taken from the enemy?
500
These were the differences in Reconstruction plans between the Radical Republicans and President Andrew Johnson.
What are have the federal government help the Freedmen vs. allowing the individual states to pass Black Codes?