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Women's suffrage (right to vote) and it's leaders. |
This was to give women the right to vote. One of the leaders way Susan B. Anthony |
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What gift did Gen. Sherman give President Lincoln at the end of the Civil War? |
Savannah |
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Who shot President Lincoln? |
John Wilkes Booth |
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Where did Gen. Lee surrender to Gen. Grant at the end of the Civil War? |
Appomattox
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Where was the first shot of the Civil War fired at? |
Ft. Sumter |
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dumped a load of tea into Boston Harbor during the night
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Boston Tea Party |
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Was elected president in 1860? |
Abraham Lincoln |
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Who was the first president to be impeached |
Andrew Johnson |
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Who was Dred Scott? |
A slave that sued the Supreme court for his freedom.
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What was a carpetbagger? |
Northern politicians that went South after the war, carrying their belongings in a carpet bag, to take advantage of political opportunity.
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What was the most decisive battle of the Civil war. the Union won the battle.
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Gettysburg |
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Who was a well-known leader of the Underground Railroad. She was an escaped slave from Maryland. During the 1850’s she helped 300 slaves escape to freedom.
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Harriet Tubman |
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Who was president of the Confederacy? |
Jefferson Davis |
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This was a network of escape routes and hiding places (called stations) by which fugitive slaves could escape to the Northern states or to Canada.
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Underground railroad |
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Who led the Confederate Army?
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Robert E. Lee |
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A Confederate army leader that was accidental shot by one of his own men and later died from this.
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Stonewall Jackson |
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Who published The Liberator?
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William Lloyd Garrison |
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What were white Southerners called who cooperated with carpetbaggers and freedmen to advance their own interests.
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Scalawag |
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Who led the march to the sea?
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William T. Sherman |
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Who was Commander and Chief of the Second Continental army?
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George Washington |
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This was drafted by President Lincoln in 1863 saying that slaves shall be free forever and ever |
Emancipation Proclamation
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the practice of forcing American soldiers (kidnapping) to fight in the British navy. The would capture them from American ships and force them into the British Navy.
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Impressment .
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Led his 4 sons and 1 son-in-law to attack a proslavery settlement, Pottawatomie Creek; 5 men were killed. Then in 1859, He led a gang of 18 men into the town of Harper’s Ferry,Virginia. They seized the Federal arsenal and took several prominent citizens hostage. Their plan was to free and arm the slaves, establish his own republic in the mountains of Virginia and then invade the South. The state militia and a company of U.S. marines under the command of Colonel Robert E. Lee captured him and in the process most of his men were killed. He was tried for treason and hanged.
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John Brown
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Ku Klux Klan and Knights of the White Camellia: These used illegal methods and violence to improve the poorly run government situations.
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Secret Societies
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Established a large American settlement in Texas
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Stephen Austin
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remained loyal to Britain and the King of England. Also called loyalist
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Tories
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He was a powerful Union general. He became known as the “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” In March 1864, President Lincoln summoned Gen. Grant to Washington and made him the supreme commander of the armies of the United States.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Occurred in 1831 in Virginia, was the largest slave uprising in the history of the South. About 60 white people, mostly women and children,were killed. It was blamed on the Garrison and his abolitionist propaganda
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Nat Turner Revolt
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