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40 Cards in this Set
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Bull Run is also know as what name? |
First Manassas |
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Who invented the cotton gin? |
Eli Whitney |
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Did the Know Nothing Party encourage or discourage immigration? |
Discourage |
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Who was Dred Scott? |
A slave who sued for freedom |
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What did the Supreme Court rule regarding slavery in the Dred Scott Decision? |
That slaver were property and had no rights |
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Who said "I,_____am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood"? |
John Brown |
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Who had the nickname "stonewall"? |
General Thomas Jackson |
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What was the end of the reconstruction? |
The end of reconstruction was complete once all federal troops were withdrawn from the South |
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Carpetbagger |
Someone who was against slavery that moved to the South after the war |
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Who were the two most prominent scalawags? |
General James Longstreet & Joseph Brown |
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The three areas of reconstruction |
Presidential Reconstruction, radical reconstruction, and redemption |
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What was the main Southern crop? |
Cotton |
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What was the 2nd main Southern crop? |
Rice |
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House slaves were what? |
Slaves that worked in the plantation main houses |
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The Black codes |
Laws that constricted civil rights and civil liberties of blacks, especially freed slaves |
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Where was Jefferson Davis captured? |
Irwinville, Georgia |
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What day was Abraham Lincoln assassinated? |
April 14th, 1865 |
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Who assassinated Lincoln? |
John Wilkes Booth |
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What are Sherman's neck-ties? |
Railroad ties bend around trees |
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What is the Ku Klux Klan? |
An anti-black group |
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Who was a founding father of the Ku Klux Klan? |
General Forest |
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The Savanna Campaign was also known as |
Sherman's March to the Sea |
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How many casualties were there at Gettysburg? |
51,000 |
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Copperheads |
Peace Democrats from the North who opposed the Civil War and Lincoln and his administration |
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The first official black infantry |
The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry |
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Women volunteered as what in the war? |
Nurses |
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What was the leading cause of death in the war? |
Disease |
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President of the Confederate States of America |
Jefferson Davis |
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Which was the first state to secede from the Union? |
South Carolina |
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Which state united the south for slavery? |
South Carolina |
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Senator Stephen A. Douglas |
Initiated the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
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What was the Compromise of 1850? |
Admit California as a free state and let future states decide for themselves the issue of slavery |
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Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Who wrote "American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses"? |
Theodore Dwight Weld |
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Abolition movement means what? |
People against slavery |
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1st Amendment |
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof |
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What country did most of the immigrants come from in the early 1800's? |
Ireland |
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What year was Uncle Toms Cabin published? |
1852 |
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Who could send a substitute? |
Anyone who could pay the cost for someone else to serve in the war for them |
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What was the underground railroad? |
A way for slaves to escape to the north |
