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What issues created bitter divisions between the North and South? |
Slavery, culture, economics, and constitution |
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How did slavery divide the nation? |
There were many differences between the North and South, slavery increased the tension |
There were many differences between the North and South,... |
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Fill in the blanks. The North was a ________ region and its people ________ tariffs. |
Manufacturing, favored |
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Fill in the blanks. The South was _______ tariffs because they caused the price of manufactured goods to _______. |
Opposed, increase |
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Fill in the blanks. The north was mainly a _______ society where people held ______. |
Urban, jobs |
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Fill in the blanks. South was mainly an ________ society where people lived in small villages, farms, and _________. |
Agricultural, plantations |
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Who wanted a strong central government? |
North |
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Who wanted states' rights? |
South |
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Who believed that they had the power to declare any national law illegal? |
South |
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Who believed the national government was supreme over the states, and that the nation could not be divided? |
North |
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Who believed the abolition of slavery would destroy their economy? |
South |
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Who believed slavery should be abolished for moral reasons? |
North |
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Who began to proclaim states' rights as a means of self protection? |
South |
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Which compromise stated that Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, and Maine entered as a free state? |
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
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Which compromise stated that California was admitted as a free state and the remaining South western territories would decide about slavery |
The Compromise of 1850 |
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Which compromise did the people in the territories could decide about the issue of slavery? |
The Kansas-Nebraska |
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What is the phrase that describes when people are allowed to decide? |
Popular sovereignty |
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What prompted Southern secession? |
Abraham Lincoln's election |
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Who believed that the United States was one nation and could not be separated or divided? |
Lincoln and many Northerners |
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Who believed that the states had freely created and joined the union and could freely leave it? |
Southerners |
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Name the 11 states that seceded from the Union |
Florida Louisiana Alabama Georgia Mississippi Arkansas North Carolina Texas Virginia South Carolina and Tennessee |
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What was a border state? |
A union slave state |
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Name the four border states |
Missouri Maryland Kentucky Delaware |
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What was formed from the Western counties of Virginia that refused to secede from the Union in 1863? |
West Virginia |
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Who was the president of the Union during the Civil War? |
Abraham Lincoln |
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True or false? Abraham Lincoln opposed the spread of slavery. |
True |
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True or false. Abraham Lincoln was determined to preserve the Union by force if necessary |
True |
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What was Abraham Lincoln's definition of the United States? |
One Nation not a collection of independent states |
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Who is the general of the Union Army that defeated Lee? |
Ulysses S Grant |
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Who was the president of the Confederate States of America |
Jefferson Davis |
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Who was the leader of the army of Northern Virginia |
Robert E Lee |
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True or false? Lee favored secession. |
False |
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Who was the skilled confederate general from Virginia |
Thomas Stonewall Jackson |
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Who was an enslaved African-American who escaped to the north and became an abolitionist |
Frederick Douglass |
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Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired that began the War and what year did it begin |
Fort Sumter South Carolina in 1861 |
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What was the first major battle of the Civil War |
Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) |
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What battle was a confederate victory that led many to believe that it would be a long and bloody war |
Battle of Manassas |
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What document made freeing the slaves in the new focus of the civil war |
Emancipation Proclamation |
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Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation |
Abraham Lincoln |
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What battle did the Union win that divided the South |
The Battle of Vicksburg |
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As a result of the victory at Vicksburg what geographical feature did the North gain control of |
The Mississippi River |
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What was the turning point of the civil war |
The Battle of Gettysburg |
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During what what speech did Lincoln say the words, "of the People by the people and for the people." |
The Gettysburg Address |
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What officially marked the end of the Civil War |
Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House |
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What year did the Civil War end |
1865 |
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What did the Union do in order to control Southern ports of Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans |
Establish a naval blockade |
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What was the capital city for the Union |
Washington DC |
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What was the capital city for the Confederates |
Richmond |
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What are all of these things? |
Hardships experienced during the civil war. |
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Who was the Civil War nurse that created the American Red Cross |
Clara Barton |
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Who was an African-American saved sailor and later a union Naval Captain who was highly honored for his Feats of bravery and heroism. After the war he became a congressman from South Carolina. |
Robert Smalls |
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What was the time period of westward expansion |
1801 - 1861 |
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What are all of these? |
Geographic and economic factors that influenced westward migration |
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What were the five significant territories added to the US between 1801 and 1861 |
Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Oregon Territory, California |
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What did Thomas Jefferson buy from France that doubled the size of the U.S. |
The Louisiana Purchase |
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What was the range of exploration for Lewis and Clark |
From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean |
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Which territory was given to us by Spain through a treaty |
Florida |
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What territory was added after it broke away from Mexico and became an independent republic for 10 years before it was added to the U.S. as a state |
Texas |
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What territory was added after it was peacefully divided by the US and Great Britain |
The Oregon Territory |
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Which territory was added after war with Mexico |
California |
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What was the idea that expansion was for the good of the country and was the right of the country |
Manifest destiny |
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Prior to the Civil War where did most industrialization in America take place |
The North |
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Where did most of the equipment that was produced in the north have an impact |
The south |
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What is a person who is the first to think of or make something |
An inventor |
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What is a person who organizes resources to bring a new or better good or service to the market in hopes of earning a profit |
An entreprenuer |
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Who invented the cotton gin |
Eli Whitney |
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What increase the production of cotton thus increase the need for slave labor |
The cotton gin |
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What did Jo Anderson and Cyrus McCormick invent that was a simple machine to cut down grain faster |
The Reaper |
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Who was an entrepreneur brought the reaper to the market |
Cyrus McCormick |
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How did the reaper affect American lives |
Increase the productivity of the American Farmer |
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Who improved the invention of the steam boat |
Robert Fulton |
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What provided faster River Transportation that connected Southern plantations and Farms to Northern Industries and western territories |
The steamboat |
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What advantage did the steam locomotive give Americans |
Faster Land Transportation |
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what is someone who worked to end slavery |
An abolitionist |
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What did abolitionist demand |
The immediate freeing of slaves |
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What are all of these? |
Why abolitionists felt that slavery was wrong |
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What Woman Led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to Freedom along the Underground Railroad |
Harriet Tubman |
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Who wrote The Liberator newspaper and worked for the immediate emancipation of all enslaved African-Americans |
William Lloyd Garrison |
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Who wrote the North Star newspaper and worked for rights for African-Americans and women to better their lives |
Frederick Douglass |
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What is another word for the right to vote |
Suffrage |
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What movement helped women gain equal rights |
The suffrage movement |
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What was the main idea expressed during the suffrage movement |
All men and women are created equal |
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What are all of these |
What supporters of the suffrage movement believed woman were deprived of |
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Name three strong woman who led the suffrage movement for women before the Civil War started and continued after the war ended |
Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Kama Sojourner Truth |
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Who was the former enslaved African-American and was a nationally known advocate for equality and justice |
Sojourner Truth |
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Who was an advocate to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all |
Susan B Anthony |
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Who played a leadership role in the women's rights movement |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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