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62 Cards in this Set
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What 3 areas of conflict led to a civil war between the North and the South?
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Cultural,Economic, and Constitutional differences
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What main issue divided the Nation?
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Slavery
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Describe the culture of the North.
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Urban society in which people held jobs
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Describe the culture of the south.
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Agricultural society where people lived in small villages farms and plantations
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What was the economic position of the North and why?
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1. favored tariffs
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What was the economic position of the South and why?
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1. opposed tariffs
2. would raise prices of manufactured goods and might stop England from buying more expensive cotton |
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What was the constitutional conflict between the North and South?
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States rights versus strong central government
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The South feared that the North would take control of
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congress
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Southerners began to proclain states' rights as a means of_______________
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self-protection
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North believed that the nation was a _________
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Union
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The war did not begin as a war to abolish_____________
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slavery, but issues surrounding slavery deeply divided the nation
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What important issue separated the country?
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The power of the Federal government
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Southerns believed they had the power to declare any national law ________
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Illegal
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Northerns believed that the national governments power was __________ over the states.
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Supreme
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Southerners felt that the abolution of slavery would destroy their __________
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Economy
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Northerners believed that salvery should be abolished for __________ reasons.
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moral
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What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 state?
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Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free state.
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What did the Compromise of 1850 state?
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California was a free state and the southwest territories could decide about slavery
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What was the basis of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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People decided the slavery issue. (Popular sovereignty)
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What happened right after Lincoln's election?
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Southern states seceded from the union
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What marked the beginning of the civil war?
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Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter
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What did Lincoln and many Northerners believe about the nation?
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It could not be separated or divided
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What the Southerners believe about the nation?
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That states could freely leave it
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What type of slave states seceded from the union?
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States dependent on labor-intensive cash crops
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What type of slave states did not secede from the union?
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Northern-most (border) slave states
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Name the states that seceded from the Union.
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Alabama North Carolina
Arkansas South Carolina Florida Tennessee Georgia Texas Louisana Virginia Mississippi |
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Name the Border states that stayed in the Union.
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Delaware Maryland
Kentucky Missouri |
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Name the Free states that stayed in the Union.
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California Conneticut
illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Hampshire New Jersey New York Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont |
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What happened to the western counties of Virginia who refused to secede from the Union?
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Formed West Virginia
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Facts on Abraham Lincoln
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1. President of U.S.
2. Opposed to slavery 3. Issued Emancipation Proclamation 4. Determined to preserve the union 5. believed U.S. was one nation not a collection of independent states |
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What did Lincoln say in the Gettysburg Address?
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Civil war was to preserve a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
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Who was Jefferson Davis?
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President of Confederate States of America
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Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
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Genral of Union army that defeated Lee
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Who was Robert E. Lee?
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Leader of army of Northern Virginia, did not want to fight Virginia.
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What did Lee oppose?
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Succession but did not believe the union should be held together by force
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What did Lee do at the end of the war?
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Urge Southerners to accept defeat and reunite with the union.
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Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
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Confederat Gneral and Commandant of Virginia Military Institute
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Name the Free states that stayed in the Union.
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California Conneticut
illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Hampshire New Jersey New York Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont |
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What happened to the western counties of Virginia who refused to secede from the Union?
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Formed West Virginia
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Facts on Abraham Lincoln
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1. President of U.S.
2. Opposed to slavery 3. Issued Emancipation Proclamation 4. Determined to preserve the union 5. believed U.S. was one nation not a collection of independent states |
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What did Lincoln say in the Gettysburg Address?
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Civil war was to preserve a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
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Who was Jefferson Davis?
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President of Confederate States of America
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Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
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Genral of Union army that defeated Lee
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Who was Robert E. Lee?
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Leader of army of Northern Virginia, did not want to fight Virginia.
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What did Lee oppose?
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Succession but did not believe the union should be held together by force
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What did Lee do at the end of the war?
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Urge Southerners to accept defeat and reunite with the union.
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Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
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Confederat Gneral and Commandant of Virginia Military Institute
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Who was Frederick Douglass?
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Former slave, became an abolitionist
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What was the first major battle of the war?
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Battle of Bull Run (in Manassas)
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How did signing the Emanicapation Proclamation change the focus of the war?
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Made "free the slaves" the focus
Many slaves joined the union army |
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What ended the war?
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Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House in 1865
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What did many die from on the battleground?
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Disease and exposure
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Effects of the war on families and friends.
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Pitted against one another
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Effects of war on the south.
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1. troups became increasingly younger
2. poorly equiped 3. poorly clothed |
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What cities were burned in the south?
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Atlanta and Richmond
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Who was Clara Barton?
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A civil war nurse that created the Red Cross
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Who was left in the south to run business and farms?
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Women
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Collapse of the Confederacy did what to Confederate money?
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Made it wothless
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How did the Confederacy use slaves?
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Naval crew members and soldiers
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Did African Americans fight for the Union?
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yes
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How were the African Americans treated by the Union Army?
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1. paid less
2. served in segregated units under command of whites |
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Who was Robert Smalls?
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sailor and Union Naval captain Became a congressman after the civil war.
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