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25 Cards in this Set
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President Lincoln's announcement that the slaves had been freed was the
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Enamcipation Proclamation
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Which battle was the turning point of the Civil War
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Gettysburg
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Where was the Confederate capital
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Richmond
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Where did Lee surrender to Grant
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Appomattox
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The Union won control of the Mississippi River at which battle
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Vicksburg
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Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired
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Fort Sumter
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What name did the Southern states use after they withdrew from the Union
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Confederate States of America
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What was one nickname given to the Confederate soldiers
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Rebels
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What was the name of the
Confederate ironclad ship |
Merrimac
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What was one nickname given to the Union soldiers
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Yankees
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What was the name of the Union ironclad ship
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Monitor
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This area was the only frontier that remained to be settled by the middle of the 1800's
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the West
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The two companies that built the transcontinental railroad were the Union Pacific Company and the ______ Pacific Company
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Central
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This act promised 160 acres of land to anyone who would farm the land for five years
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Homestead Act
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The two tracks of the Transcontinental Railroad met at Promonotory Point, ________
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Utah
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The man who murdered President Lincoln
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John Wilkes Booth
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The general who led the Confederate army
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Robert E. Lee
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President of the Confederate States
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Jefferson Davis
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Inventor of the cotton gin
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Eli Whitney
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Union general who captured Atlanta
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William T. Sherman
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President who believed the Union must be preserved
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Abraham Lincoln
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General who led all the Union forces
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Man who became President after another President was shot and killed
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Andrew Johnson
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What were two important results of the Civil War
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1. No state could leave the Union
2. There would be no more slavery in the United States |
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Explain two differences between the way of life in the North and the way of life in the South before the Civil War
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1. Farms in the North were small, farms in the South were large
2. The North had many factories, the South had few factories 3. The South depended on slaves for labor, the North did not |