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45 Cards in this Set
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Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
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Jefferson Davis
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Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Who was the leader of the Union Army?
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Who was the leader of the Confederate Army?
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Robert E. Lee
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Who delivered the Gettysburg Address?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Who became the President of the United States when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
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Andrew Johnson
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Who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse?
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Robert E. Lee
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What leader demanded "Unconditional Surrender" after winning battles?
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Who invented a machine that cleaned and prepared cotton in less time?
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Eli Whitney
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Who led an attack of fellow slaves against slave owners?
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Nat Turner
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Who planned to arm slaves so that they could fight for their freedom?
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John Brown
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Who led enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad?
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Harriet Tubman
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Who tried to settle differences over slavery with compromises?
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Henry Clay
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Who was a nurse that cared for sick and wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War?
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Clara Barton
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Who was most responsible for keeping peace between the North and the South between 1820 and 1850?
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Henry Clay
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Name one difference between the North and the South before the Civil War.
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The North had more people and factories. The South had more farming and less people. The North was opposed to the spread of slavery.
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True or False: Most people in the South lived on large plantations and had slaves.
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False: Most people in the South lived on small farms and had no slaves. Only 25% had slaves.
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How did the slaves handle the hardships of slavery?
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They formed close-knit groups, helped each other, and sang spirituals.
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What are some things that slaves did to resist slavery?
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Escaped, rebelled, killed owners, damaged things
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How were arguments over slavery in land gained from the war with Mexico settled?
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The Compromise of 1850
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What major event happened when Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States?
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Seven Southern states seceded from the Union and formed a new government, The Confederate States of America.
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What event began the Civil War?
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Southerners attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
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Where did two major Union victories happen in the Civil War?
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Vicksburg and Gettysburg
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What groups of people were a major help to the North during the Civil War?
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Africans and women
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What ended slavery in the United States?
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The Thirteenth Amendment
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Who controlled the Southern states during Reconstruction?
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The Union army
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What did Southern states have to do to be readmitted to the Union?
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1. Write new state constitutions 2. pass the Fourteenth Amendment which recognized the citizenship of former slaves 3. agree to give all men, black and white, the right to vote
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What helped slaves escape to freedom in the North and Canada?
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The Underground Railroad
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What settled arguments over slavery in the Louisiana Purchase?
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The Missouri Compromise
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What let the people of the region decide if slavery would be allowed?
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act
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What honored soldiers who had died defending the nation?
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The Gettysburg Address
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What ordered slaves in Confederate states to be freed?
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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What helped former slaves adjust to freedom?
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The Freedmen's Bureau
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What made Africans citizens of the United States?
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The Fourteenth Amendment
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What gave voting rights to Africans?
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The Fifteenth Amendment
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What was sharecropping?
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A system of working the land in which the worker was paid with a "share" of the crop
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What was the time of rebuilding after the Civil War called?
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Reconstruction
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What were scalawags?
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People who supported something for their own good
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What were carpetbaggers?
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Northerners who went to the South to try to help with Reconstruction or to make money buying land or opening businesses
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What was segregation?
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The separation of black and white people
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What does the term "impeached" mean?
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Charged with a crime
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What happened when Andrew Johnson was impeached?
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He was found not guilty of a crime.
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What were black codes?
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Laws passed in the South that limited the rights of former slaves
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What secret group dressed in white robes and attacked and killed former slaves?
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The Ku Klux Klan
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What were the border states?
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Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware
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