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AHSGE Standard 4
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Social Studies
11th Grade
01/18/2012

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Compromise of 1850
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What congressiona lsolutino made California a free state and gave popular sovereignty to the New Mexico and Utah territories.
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Fugitive Slave Act
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What part of the solution in the Compromise of 1850 upset many northerners(there were five parts of the solution)?
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Kansas-nebraska Act
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What act supported by Stephen Douglas gave popular sovereignty to two territories just west of Missouri
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Republican
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What political party was formed in the 1850's that supported the anti-slavery platform (also, it is known as the party of Lincoln.
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Scott v. Sanford (Dred Scott decision)
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What famous court case upheld the right of slaves owners as property holders ans disallowed slaves to file court cases?
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John Brown
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Who led the massacre at Pottawatomie Creek, NE and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Who won the presidental elction in 1860?
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South Carolina
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What state was the first to secede from the Union in 1860?
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Winston County
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What country in Alabama never seceded from the Union?
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Virginia (West Virginia)
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What state was actually split over the desision to secede and eventually became two states?
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54th Massachusetts
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What was the most famous ofthe Black military units to fight in the Civil War?
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Homestead Act
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What act passed by the Republican dominated congress(during the Civil War)gave large land grants to states from the federal goverment?
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Emancipation Proclamation
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What did Lincoln pass on Jan 1,1863 granting freedom to slaves in the Conferderate states in rebellion?
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Writ of Habeas Corpus
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What did Lincoln suspend during the Civil War, depriving many citizens of their civil rights?
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First Bull Run
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What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
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Antietam
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What battle resulted in the single bloodiest day of the Civil War?
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Gettysburg
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What major three-day battle did the Confederates(under Lee) lose in Pennsylvania?
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Vicksburg
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What battle in Mississippi resulted in a complete blockade of the south by the Union?
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General Tecumseh Sherman
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What Union general captured Atlanta and continued southeast to Savannah destroying everything in his path?
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Gettysburg Address
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What famous speech was given by Lincoln at a consecretion cermony where he reminded Americans of the basic ideal,"All men are created equal?"
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Appomattox Courthouse
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Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Grant in 1865?
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Reconstruction
Definition
What was the program called that returned southern states to the Union, rebuilt the South's infrastructure, and attempted to protect the rights of free blacks?
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Black Codes
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What were the laws called passed by southerner state attempting to control freedmen and keeping them in a subservient position?
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Carpetbaggers
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What were northerners called who moved to the South, voted Republican, and were scorned by southerners after the Civil War?
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Scalawags
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What were southerners called who voted Republican after the Civil War?
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Ku Klux Klan
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What southern secret society emerged during the Reconstruction that harassed,tormented, and killed blacks demanding equality?
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President Grant
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What man served as president during Reconstruction and whose legacy(as president) is remembered as being very corrupt?
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
What congressional solution resulted in Hayes winning the presidental election in 1876 and Reconstruction ending?
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Jim Crow Laws
Definition
What were the laws called passed in southern states after Reconstruction that stripped African Americans of basic rights like voting?
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Tenant farming
Definition
What type of farming existed in the south after the war where farmers rented land to grow crops?
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Sharecropping
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What type of farming existed in the south after the war where farmers were forced t oshare crops with landowners?
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