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44 Cards in this Set
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Tax on goods brought into a country
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A. tariff
B. states' rights C. free state D. slave state |
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Idea that the states, rather than the national government should have the final say over their own affairs
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A. tariff
B. states' rights C. free state D. slave state |
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State that did not allow slavery before the Civil War
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A. tariff
B. states' rights C. free state D. slave state |
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State that allowed slavery before the Civil War
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A. tariff
B. states' rights C. free state D. slave state |
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Why did most people in the South oppose tariffs?
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Because they had to pay a higher price for goods manufactured in Europe
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How did Kansas get its nickname, "Bleeding Kansas?"
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Because of the fighthing over whether to be a free state or a slave state
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Why wouldn't the Supreme Court give Dred Scott his freedom?
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He was a slave and did not have any of the rights and privileges of an American citizen
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Freeing of enslaved people
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A. emanciaption
B. fugitive C. underground D. abolitionist |
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A person who is running away from something
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A. emanciaption
B. fugitive C. underground D. abolitionist |
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Done in secret
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A. emanciaption
B. fugitive C. underground D. abolitionist |
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A person who wanted to end slavery
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A. emanciaption
B. fugitive C. underground D. abolitionist |
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Why was slavery important in the South?
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Because Southerners depended on slaves to work in their mines, factories, and plantations
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What did slave codes say?
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1. slaves couldn't leave their owner's land
2. slaves were not allowed to read or write 3. slaves couldn't speak against slavery |
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What did the Fugitive Slave Act say?
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1. anyone caught helping a slave escape could be punished
2. runaway slaves had to be returned to the South |
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What was the Underground Railroad?
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A system of secret escape routes leading to free lands
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Who was Harriet Tubman?
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A famous conductor on the Underground Railroad
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Who was the first organized religious group to work against slavery?
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The Quakers
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To leave
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A. secede
B. Confederacy C. abolitionist |
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A group of 11 states that left the Union
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A. secede
B. Confederacy C. abolitionist |
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What political party did Abraham Lincoln join?
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The newly formed Republican Party
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What happened after Lincoln was elected president?
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7 Southern states seceded from the Union
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Who was president of the Confederate States of America?
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Jefferson Davis
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When and where did the Civil War begin?
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In 1861 at Fort Sumter, South Carolina
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To fall back
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A. retreat
B. border state C. casualty |
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A state that was unsure which side to support
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A. retreat
B. border state C. casualty |
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A person who has been killed or wounded
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A. retreat
B. border state C. casualty |
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Where was the first major battle of the Civil War?
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Bull Run, Virginia
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What was Southern General Thomas Jackson's nickname?
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Stonewall Jackson
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What states were the border states?
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Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, and Kentucky
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What was the capital of the Confederacy?
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Richmond, Virginia
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Who was the commander of the Southern army?
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Robert E. Lee
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The battle at Antietam, Maryland, was the battle that had the highest number of what?
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Casualties in one day
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President Lincoln ordered the Emancipation Proclamation, what did it do?
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Freed all the slaves
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Who was Clara Barton?
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A Civil War nurse who founded the American Red Cross
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Why was the victory at Vicksburg, Mississippi important for the North?
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Because it gave the Union control of the Mississippi River
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Where was Stonewall Jackson shot?
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He was shot at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia and he later died
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Where was the major Civil War battle that took place in PA in July of 1863?
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Gettysburg
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What was Pickett's Charge?
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A Confederate attack at Gettysburg
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What happened at Pickett's Charge?
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15,000 soldiers charged across an open field and attacked the Union army
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Why did President Lincoln give the Gettysburg address?
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To dedicate a cemetery for Union soldiers who died in the Battle of Gettysburg
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Who took command of all Union armies in 1864?
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Ulysses S. Grant
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What was the name of the Union General that took part in the March to the Sea in Georgia?
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General William Sherman
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What happened at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia in 1865?
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Lee surrendered to Grant
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