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Missouri enters the United States as a slave state and Maine enters as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise
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16th United States President
Who is Abraham Lincoln
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Use of the North's superior navy to prevent the south from shipping cotton to foreign countries for weapons and supplies.
What is the Union Blockade
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Officially ended/abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment
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Invention that led to the exponential growth of slavery
What is the cotton gin
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Stated that slaves were property and did not have the right to sue
What is the Dred Scott Decision
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Most important black member of the House of Representatives who was also a founder of the Republican Party
Who is Henry McNeal Turner
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Bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War that Abraham Lincoln used to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the battle of Antietam
200
Secret Organization that used violence to intimidate freedmen and Republicans
Who is the Ku Klux Klan
200
Name of the movement to end slavery
What is abolition
300
California enters the Union as a free state and the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act
What is the Compromise of 1850
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Known as the Great Compromiser due to his role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay
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Battle that was thought to be the turning point of the Civil War. The battle was the last time that the South tried to invade the North
What is the battle of Gettysburg
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Gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment
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States rights issue that dealt with tariffs
What is the Nullification Crisis
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Georgia's response to the Compromise of 1850
What is the Georgia Platform
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Strongest advocate against Georgia secession and the Vice President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Alexander Stephens
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A path of destruction that was 300 miles long and 60 miles wide from Atlanta to Savannah.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea
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Granted African Americans citizenship and equal rights
What is the 14th Amendment
400
Stated that all slaves in rebellious states would be forever free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
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Allowing political decisions to be made by the will of the people
What is Popular Sovereignty
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Captain of Andersonville whowas hangefor war crimes at the end of the war
Who is Henry Wirz
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Second bloodiest battle of the Civil war and the North's plan to capture the major railroad hubs of Chattanooga and Atlanta.
What is the battle of Chickamauga
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Laws that whites used to keep freedmen from having equal rights. (For example, Could not testify against whites)
What are Black Codes
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Private Citizens who took the risk of evading the Union Blockade for the chance at huge profits
What are blockade runners