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40 Cards in this Set
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What was the economy of the Southern states based on? |
Agriculture and it relied on slave labor |
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What was the economony of the Northearn states based on? |
Industry |
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What is agriculture? |
Growing of crops and livestock |
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What is industry? |
The commercial production and sale of goods and services |
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What is a free state? |
One where slavery is not allowed |
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What is a slave state? |
One where slavery is allowed |
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What did the the Northern states want new states to become? |
Free states |
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What did the Southern states want the new states to become? |
Slave states |
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Where where the new states coming from? |
They where being created form the western teritories |
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What conflicts developed between the northearn and the southern states in the years following the american Revolution and led to the civil war? |
North was industrialized and the South was agricultureal and depended on slaves.
North wanted the new states to be "free states" and the south wanted thm to be "South states" |
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What did Nat Turner do? |
He led a revolt against plantation owners in Virginia |
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What did abolitionists do? |
They compaigned to end slavery |
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What did Harriet Tubman do? |
She established a route that escaped slaves took |
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What was the route that Harriet Tubman established called? |
The Undergroud Railroad |
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What did John Brown do? |
He led a raid on the United States Armory (Arsenal) at Herpers Ferry, Virginia. |
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What is an armory? |
A place where amuniton is stored |
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Why did John Brown lead a raid on the Armory at Harpers Ferry? |
He was starting to start a slave rebellion |
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What happened to John Brown? |
He was captured and hanged |
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When did Abraham Lincon become pesident of the United States? |
1860 |
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What happened when Lincon was elected president? |
Several south states seceded then other southern staes joined them |
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What did the southern states form? |
The Confederate Sates of America |
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What did Virginia do when the southern states secced? |
They joined the Confederate States of America |
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What did the eastern and western staes of Viriginia disagree about? |
The easten staes favord slavery and the westen counties favored the abolition of slavery |
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What happened because of the eastern and western counties of Virginia? |
The westen counties broke away and formed West Virginia |
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What was the first major clash of the Civil War? |
The first Battle of Bull Run (or Mamassas) |
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Who played a major role in the first Battle of Bull Run? |
Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
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Who was the commander of the army of Northearn Virginia? |
General Robert E. Lee |
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Where did General Robert E Lee defeat Union troops? |
Fredericksburg, VA |
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Where was the capital of the Confederacy? |
Richmond, VA |
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Who did Richmond fall to near the end of the Civil War? |
General Ulyssess S. Grant |
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What happened to Richmond near the end of the Civil War? |
It was burned |
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What is a blockade? |
The closing off of a city, coast or harbor to communication and supplies by ships from the opposing side? |
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What did Lincoln do to try to keep the Southern ports from getting supplies? |
He used the Union Navy to make a blockade |
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What was the Monitor? |
It was a Union iron-clad ship |
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What was the Merrimack? |
It was a Confederate iron-clad ship |
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Where did the Monitor and the Merrimack fight? |
In Virginia waters off the coast of Hampton and Norfolk |
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Who won between the Monitor and the Merrimack? |
It was draw |
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Where did the Civil War end? |
At Appomattox Court House, VA |
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When did the Civil War end? |
April 1865 |
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How did the Civil War end? |
General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to General Ulysses S. Grant |
