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46 Cards in this Set
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What is the Abolition Movement?
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The social movement to end slavery
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Who were the leaders of the Abolitionist Movement?
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Fredrick Douglas, Sojourner Truth, William L. Garrison
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What was the reform on public education?
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Between 1830-1850 many northern states opened up free public schools
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What did Horace Mann do?
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He was a leader of the public school reform
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What was the labor reform movement?
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Social movement where workers began protesting and strikes to get better wages and working hours.
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What was the women's rights movement?
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This movement sought the equal treatment of women, including the right to vote.
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Who was Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B. Anthony?
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Women's Rights leaders
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What was the temperance movement?
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Social movement to stop drinking alcohol
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What was sectionalism?
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The North and South as each "section" of the country places its own interest above the country as a whole
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What did the North rely on?
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Factories and manufacturing
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What did the south rely on?
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Plantations (slavery), and farms
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What is "Bleeding Kansas"
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Conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in Kansas from 1854*1859
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What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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Nebraska was divided into two territories, slavery was to be decided by popular soverignty (vote by the people)
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Who was John Brown?
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He was an extreme abolitionist who murdered slavery supporters
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What is Abolitionism?
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The movement to end slavery
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What was the Liberator and who wrote it?
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An abolionist newspaper-William Lloyd Garrison
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Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Who was a former slave and conductor of the Underground Railroad?
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Harriet Tubman
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Who was Henry David Thoreau?
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Wrote "Civil Disobedience" (passive resistance)
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Who was the author of declaration of the rights of women, seeking equal rights for women?
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Where was the first women's rights convention held?
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Seneca Falls, NY
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Who is the Father of public education?
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Horace Mann
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When was the Civil War?
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1861-1865
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What was the main issue of the Civil War?
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Slavery-North wins
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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 wrote the Gettsyburg Address?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Who was the Confederate President?
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Jefferson Davis
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Who was the Commander of the Union Army?
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Who was the Confederate general who surrendered to Grant at Appomattox?
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Robert E. Lee
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What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
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It freed all the slaves
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Who was William Carney
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1st African American awarded the Medal of Honor while serving with the 54th Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War. Held the flag at Ft. Wagner
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Who was Phillip Bazaar?
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Navy seaman who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor in the Battle for Fort Fisher of the American Civil War.
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What was the secession of the south?
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withdrawal of the Southern states from the Union
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What was the first state to suceed from the nation?
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South Carolina
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Where was the first shot of the Civil War?
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Ft. Sumter
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What was the single bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
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Battle of Antietam
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What was the important Union victory, the Confederates lost the Mississippis River?
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Battle of Vickesburg
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Important Union victory, Pickett's Charge, Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Last battle of the War, Lee surrenders here?
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Appomattox Courthouse
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What is Reconstruction?
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The process of readmitting Southern States into the Union
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Who was the president after Abe Lincoln was assassinated?
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Andrew Johnson
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What is the 13th amendment?
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Abolish slavery (freed the slaves)
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What was the 14th amendment?
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Made all former slaves American Citizens
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What is the 15th Amendment?
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Allowed all former slaves the right to vote
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Who was Hiram Rhodes Revels?
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American clergyman and educator who became the first black citizen to be elected to the U.S. senate
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