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Civil War
The Americans - unit III
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11th Grade
11/26/2010

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1) Who devoted their life to trying to reform the treatment of the mentally ill?
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A) Clara Barton
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2) What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott decision?
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A) being on free territory did not make a slave free
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3) What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
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A) A document that freed slaves in the “states in rebellion”
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4) What is the basic belief behind the Freeport Doctrine?
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A) that any territory could vote to be free via popular sovereignty
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5) Who invented the steel plow, which made farming easier?
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John Deere
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6) Who was Jefferson Davis
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1st President of the Confederate States
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7) The battle of ________is considered the turning point in the Civil War.
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A) Gettysburg
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8) Joseph Smith was killed by an anti-Mormon mob after advocating his support of what?
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Bigamy
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9) What is the importance of the California “gold rush”?
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A) It allowed them to skip the “territorial phase” of statehood
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10) What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act repeal?
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A) Missouri Compromise
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11) When was the Confederate States of America formed
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A) February 4, 1861
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12) Lyman Beecher’s preaching against drunkenness led to the foundation of the _____________ movement
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A) Temperance
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13) What did Native American men believe gave them their “personal strength”?
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Their hair, later cut by the white man as a part of “assimilation”.
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helped over 300 slaves safely flee the South?
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A) Harriet Tubman
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15) What is “Manifest Destiny”?
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hat the US should expand west to the Pacific Ocean
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How many Americans died at the Alamo
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187
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Name Southern advantages in the Civil War
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who was John BRown
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anti slavery fanatic who thougoh God asked him to fight slavery
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what is Know-Nothing Party
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group of Nativists who wanted to be altenative to American party -- did not like immigrants
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Who was Dred Scott
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Slave moved to IL and sued -- property stays in state -- said he couldn't sue because he was not citizen
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what were economic costs of CIvil War?
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food shortages
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federal taxes
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what was Bare Flag Republic?
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