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29 Cards in this Set
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What was America often called during the Civil War period?
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The Union
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What were the South's two main crops?
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Tobacco and Cotton
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Who invented the cotton gin?
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Eli Whitney
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What two states were brought into the Union under the terms of the Missouri Compromise?
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Maine and Missouri
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Which was slave and which was free?
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Missouri was slave and Maine was free.
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Who was elected President in 1860?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Which state left the Union first?
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South Carolina
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Who was Jefferson Davis?
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President of the Confederate States of America
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What were the Northern soldiers called?
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Yankees, Yanks, or Billy Yanks
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What were the Southern soldiers called?
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Rebels, or Johnny Rebels
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Where was the first battle of the Civil War?
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Fort Sumter
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How many states made up the Confederacy?
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Eleven (11)
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What was the name of the first Southern ironclad ship?
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Merrimac
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What was the name of the first Northern ironclad ship?
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Monitor
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Which ship won the battle when they fought each other?
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Neither side
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What document issued by Lincoln freed the slaves?
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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Who was General Ulysses S. Grant?
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General of the Union Army
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Who was General Robert E. Lee?
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General of the Confederate Army
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What was the turning point of the Civil War?
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The Battle of Gettysburg
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What battle put the Mississippi River under Northern control?
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The Battle of Vicksburg
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Which Union General marched his troops to the sea, destroying everything on the way?
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General William T. Sherman
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What was the capital city of the Confederacy?
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Richmond
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What was the site of Lee's surrender to Grant?
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Appomattox Court house, Virginia
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What two things did the Civil War make certain?
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No state could leave the Union
There would be no more slavery in the United States |
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Who shot President Lincoln?
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John Wilkes Booth
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Who became President after Lincoln's death?
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Andrew Johnson
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Name the other 6 states that left the union
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Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas
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What name did the Southern states choose for there new nation?
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Confederate States of America
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How many states did it take to make up the Union?
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21
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