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| Who was the leader of the confederate soldiers? |
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| Name the general during the Civil War that later became a president. |
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| What was the first battle of the Civil War? |
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| Fort Sumnter, South Carolina |
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| What year did the civil war start? |
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| When did the civil war end? |
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| Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the _________. |
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| People that speak out against slavery. |
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| Name the book that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in 1852. |
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| Harriet Tubman was a famous conductor on the ______________. |
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| John Brown was a white abolitionist that organized an attack in which he planned to give guns to slaves. Name were this happened. |
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| What crops grew on many plantations in the south? |
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| Henry Clay a senator from Kentucky helped settle an argument between the northern and southern senators over slavery in the new western states. What was the name of his plan? |
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| What was the Missouri Compromise? |
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| Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, Maine entered the Union as a free state and slavery was banned in all other territories in the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern border of Missouri. |
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| The Compromise of 1850 was led by what senators? |
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| Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas, and Daniel Webster |
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| California entered the Union as a _____ state under the Compromise of 1850? |
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| New Mexico and Utah territories could decide whether to be free or slave states under which compromise? |
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| How did the Fugitive Slave Act help slave owners? |
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| They were allowed to go after their slaves when they ran away to the north. |
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| A slave went to court and fought his master for freedom because he had lived in Illinois a free state. What was the name of the slave that fought at the Supreme Court for his freedom? |
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| A war between people from the same nation. |
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| What does it mean to secede? |
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| Who was the president of the Confederacy? |
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| What state was the first to secede from the Union as a result of Abraham Lincoln becoming president in 1860? |
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| Name the four border states. |
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| Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and West Virginia |
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| Name 5 of the Confederate States. |
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| South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee |
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| Name 10 of the Union States. |
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| Oregon, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine |
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| What advantages did the North have during the Civil War? |
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| More people, more factories, navy and merchant marine, rail system larger than south, and held most of the money in banks. |
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| What advantages did the South have during the Civil War? |
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| Better military leaders, most of war fought on their land, more skilled horsemen and riflemen |
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| Who is the founder of the American Red Cross? |
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| Who was the Union leader that burned land from Atlanta to Savannah as a Christmas gift for Abraham Lincoln? |
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| William T. Sherman and it is known as the March to the Sea. |
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| Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant? |
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| What major event happened on April 14, 1865? |
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| Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. |
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| What is the name of the speech that Abraham Lincoln gave to motivate the soldiers? |
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| What is the 13th Amendment? |
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| What are the Jim Crow Laws/ |
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| Laws in the south that allowed segregation of blacks and whites. |
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| Former slaves that lived on plantations and worked. They were paid with a share of crops. |
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| What laws were passed by southern states to keep former slaves from: voting, testifying against whites in court, serving on juries, and joining army forces? |
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| When did the civil war begin? |
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