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19 Cards in this Set
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led an attack on an arsenal |
John Brown |
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Holds military weapons |
federal arsenal |
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Where was the arsenal John Brown attacked and where is it today? |
Harper's Ferry, Virginia West Virginia |
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Qho was John Brown taken prisoner and hung by? |
Robert E. Lee |
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What was the direct cause of of the secession of the southern states? |
1860 Election |
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Who was nominated in the election of 1860? |
Abraham Lincoln |
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What was Lincoln's view on slavery? |
He believed it was morally wrong, but didn't threaten it in where it already was. He stopped it from expanding west |
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What states did not secede? |
Kentucky, Missouri |
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Where were the first opening shots? |
Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina |
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the first capital of the confederacy |
Montgomery |
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What were the border states? |
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware |
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What was East Tennessee? |
very pro-union |
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What state did Lincoln view as very important? |
Kentucky |
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The western part of Virginia was so pro-union that it actually seceded from Confederate Virginia and created it's own state, __ |
Pro-Union West Virginia |
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__ in Alabama actually tried to secede from the state of Alabama during the war |
Winston County |
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Most of the area around us was more pro-union than confederate due to it being a __, ___, ___ region of Alabama |
hilly, subsistence farming, non-slave holding region of Alabama |
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What is the Civil War called? |
"Rich Man's War.. Poor Man's Fight" |
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the military takes control of an area and replaces civilian authorities, and suspends certain rights |
Martial Law |
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Martial law was declared in __ because of riots |
Maryland |
