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| People who wanted to end slavery were called |
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| wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book about the cruelty of slavery |
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| a runaway slave from New York who became a leading abolitionist and a speaker against the evils of slavery. She made the famous speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?” |
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| a runaway slave who spoke about his life at abolitionist meetings |
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| States’ rights and slavery |
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| the two biggest disagreements between northern and southern states in the mid-1800’s |
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| The system of escape routes used by runaway slaves to find freedom was called... |
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| a famous conductor of the Underground Railroad |
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| The lawyer from Illinois who fought against slavery and later became the 16th President of the United States |
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| the first state to secede from the Union when Abraham Lincoln was elected president |
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| The president of the Confederacy |
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| The war that started in 1861 between the northern and southern states was called ... |
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| Fort Sumter, South Carolina |
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| The first shots of the Civil War were fired at ... |
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| commander of the Union troops during the Civil War |
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| commander of the Confederate troops during the Civil War |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| The order freeing the slaves in the confederate states at war with the Union |
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| a speech President Lincoln gave in 1863 honoring soldiers who had died and asking Americans to save the “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” |
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| led the Union troops in the “March to the Sea,” burning Atlanta and destroying much of Georgia and South Carolina |
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| Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia |
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| Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at __________ in 1865 |
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| President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford’s Theatre by _____ in 1865 |
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| when a landowner gives a worker a cabin, tools, and seeds and lets him work the land for part of the profit |
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| The time of rebuilding after the Civil War |
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