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How did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 limit slavery |
slavery forbidden north of the 36-30 line of latitude
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How did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 spread slavery
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Slavery was allowed south of the 36-30 line of latitude
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The area the Missouri Compromise of 1820 applied to |
Louisiana Territory |
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Define popular sovereignty
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people are the source of government power
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Territory where popular sovereignty was utilized for determining slave versus free-state status
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Mexican Cession
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Territory where popular sovereignty was utilized for determining slave versus free-state status
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Kansas-Nebraska
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Bleeding Kansas |
Violence erupts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers
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This event foreshadowed the Civil War |
Bleeding Kansas |
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Known as the Great Compromiser
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Henry Clay
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What was the American System
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increase in tariffs
use of federal funds to build and maintain infrastructure Strong national bank |
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What was the Fugitive Slave Act
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required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters
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Southern point of view on the Fugitive Slave Act |
saw it as a way to limit the loss of property due to the Underground Railroad
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Northern point of view on the Fugitive Slave Act |
saw it as government support for an immoral system
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Slave that sued for his freedom
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Dred Scott
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Result of Dred Scott v Sandford |
African Americans are not citizens
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Result of Dred Scott v Sandford
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Slaves are property
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Result of Dred Scott v Sandford
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Missouri compromise is unconstitutional
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Radical abolitionist who actively participated in the Bleeding Kansas violence
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John Brown |
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led an attack and occupation of the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry Virginia
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John Brown
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Abolitionist author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The main message of Lincoln's First inaugural Address
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Lincoln wanted to keep North and South together
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The main message of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
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Declared slaves free in states that were in rebellion
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The main message of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
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to prove to all that our democratic form of government can survive and endure.
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The main message of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
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Bringing the North and South back together without ill will,
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Advantage of the NORTH during the Civil War |
more population from which to draw troops
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Advantage of the NORTH during the Civil War
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more money
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Advantage of the NORTH during the Civil War
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more industry
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Advantage of the NORTH during the Civil War
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more factories
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Advantage of the NORTH during the Civil War
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more railroads
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Advantage of the NORTH during the Civil War
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Navy
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Advantage of the NORTH during the Civil War
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established government
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Advantage of the NORTH during the Civil War
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general military readiness
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Disadvantage of the NORTH during the Civil War
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Less skilled military leadership
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Disadvantage of the NORTH during the Civil War
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offensive campaigns in enemy territory
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Disadvantage of the NORTH during the Civil War
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declining support for the war.
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Advantage of the SOUTH during the Civil War
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highly qualified military leaders
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Advantage of the SOUTH during the Civil War
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Fighting on homeland
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Advantage of the SOUTH during the Civil War
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well supported by the people feeling they had a “cause”
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Advantage of the SOUTH during the Civil War
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Defensive strategy requiring less movement and expense
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Disadvantage of the SOUTH during the Civil War
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little industry
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Disadvantage of the SOUTH during the Civil War
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few opportunities to trade due to blockades
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Disadvantage of the SOUTH during the Civil War
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less population
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Disadvantage of the SOUTH during the Civil War
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less money
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Disadvantage of the SOUTH during the Civil War
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un-established government
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Disadvantage of the SOUTH during the Civil War
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lack of military readiness
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President of the United States during the Civil War |
Abraham Lincoln |
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Commander of all union forces and lead the union to victory over the confederacy
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Union general who lead the devastating 1864 Savannah Campaign
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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President of the Confederate States of America
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Jefferson Davis
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Took command of Confederate forces
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Robert E. Lee
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Confederate Commander who died as a result of friendly-fire wounds |
Stonewall Jackson
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Granted freedom for all slaves |
13th amendment |
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Granted citizenship to all persons who are naturalized or born in the United States |
14th amendment
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The right of the citizens of the United States shall not be denied |
15th amendment |
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New technology Lincoln employed to strengthen the union war effort
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Railroads
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New technology Lincoln employed to strengthen the union war effort
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Telegraph
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New technology Lincoln employed to strengthen the union war effort
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Ironclad ships
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New technology Lincoln employed to strengthen the union war effort
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Hot-air balloons
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Irish immigrants played a crucial role in what?
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providing the labor for building railroad lines
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Chinese immigrants played a crucial role in what?
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providing the labor for building railroad lines
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Homestead Act (1862)
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provided 160 acres of western lands for a small filing fee for those willing to settle and improve the land
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Morrill Act (1862)
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set up to establish institutions in each state that would educate people in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, and other professions
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Dawes Act (1877)
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Authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians
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significance of the 54th Massachusetts regiment
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one of the first official African-American units in the United States during the Civil War
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Significance of the election of Abe Lincoln
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South follows through on secession |
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Significance of the Fort Sumter, SC
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Beginning of the Civil War (first shots)
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Significance of 1st Battle of Bull Run
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First major battle of the Civil War.
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Significance of Battle of Antietam, MD
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Lincoln uses this victory as an opportunity to issue Emancipation Proclamation
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Significance of Battle of Vicksburg, MS
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Union controls the Mississippi River and Confederacy is split in two
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Significance of Battle of Gettysburg, PA
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Confederates would never again invade the North
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Significance of Sherman’s March to the Sea
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Devastating 1864 Savannah Campaign (“March to the Sea”) through Georgia utilizing Total War techniques
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Significance of Appomattox (VA)Court House
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Lee surrenders to Grant; Civil War is over
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Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction
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Former Confederates had to take an oath to support the Constitution and the 13th amendment
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Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction
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When 10% of a state’s voters took the oath, that state could reenter the Union.
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Became president after Lincoln's assassination |
Andrew Johnson |
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Reconstruction Act of 1867
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Divided the South into 5 military districts
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Reconstruction Act of 1867
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New Southern constitutions had to be written
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Provision of new southern state constitutions had to include |
Guarantee rights of freedmen
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Provision of new southern state constitutions had to include
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Guarantee rights of citizenship
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Provision of new southern state constitutions had to include
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Guarantee freedman voting rights
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challenge faced by Freedmen in southern society,
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No money
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challenge faced by Freedmen in southern society,
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No education
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challenge faced by Freedmen in southern society,
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No land |
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challenge faced by Freedmen in southern society,
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No personal property |
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challenge faced by Freedmen in southern society,
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Vigilante terror organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan
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What was the Freedmen’s Bureau
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Government agency established to set up schools, hospitals and provide housing and food for Freedmen
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What was Sharecropping
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A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land
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Northerners who moved to the South after the American Civil War in order to profit from the instability
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Carpetbaggers
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Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party.
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Scalawags
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Requirement of poll taxes and literacy tests to be able to vote is an example of
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Black Codes
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State and local laws passed throughout the south to legalize segregation of the races in all public facilities.
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Jim Crow laws
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