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01/20/2012

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What congressional solution made California a free state and gave popular sovereignty to the New Mexico and Utah territories?
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Compromise of 1850
Term
What part of the soultion in the Compromise of 1850 upset manynorthners (there were five parts of thi soultion)?
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Fugitive Slave Law
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What act supported by Stephen Douglas gave popular sovereigenty to two territories just west of Missouri?
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Term
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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Republican
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What famous court case upheld the right of slaves owners as property holders and disallowed slaves to file cout cases?
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Scoot v. Sanford (Dred Scott decision)
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Who led the masscure at Pottawatomie Creek, NE and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry?
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John Brown
Term
Who won the presidential election in 1869?
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Abraham Lincoln
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What state was the first to secede from the Union in 1860?
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South Carolina
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What county in Alabama never secede from the Union?
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Winston County
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What state was actuall spilt over the decision to secede and eventually became two states?
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Virginia (West Virginia)
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What was the most famous of the Black military units to fight in the Civil War?
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54th Massachuseetts
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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 government?
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Homestead Act
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What did Lincoln pass on January 1,1863 granting freedom to slaves in the Confederate states in rebellion?
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Emancipation Proclamation
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What did Lincoln suspend during the Civil War, depriving many citizens of their civil right?
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Writ of Habeas Corpus
Term
What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
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First Bull Run
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What battle resulted in the single bloodiest day of the Civil War?
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Antietam
Term
What major three-day battle did the Conferdatesd (under Lee() lose in Pennsylvania?
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Gettysburg
Term
What battle in Mississippi resulted in a complete blockade of the south by the Union?
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Vicksburg
Term
What Union general captured Atlanta and continued southeast to Savannah destroying everything in his path?
Definition
General Tecumseh Sherman
Term
What famous speech was given by Lincoln at a consecration ceremonry where he reminded Americans of the basic ideal, "All men are created equal?"
Definition
Gettyburg Address
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Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Grant in 1865?
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Appomattox Courthouse
Term
What was the program called that return southern states to the Union, rebulit the South's infrastructure, and attempted to protect the rights of free blacks?
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Reconstruction
Term
What where the laws called passed by southern states attempting to control freedmen and keeping them in a subservient position?
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Black Codes
Term
What were northners caleed who voted Republican, and were scorned by southerns after the Civil War?
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Carpetbaggers
Term
What were southerns called who voted Republican after the Civil War?
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Scalawages
Term
What southern secert society emerged during the Reconstruction and whose legacy(as president) is remembered as being very corrupt?
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President Grant
Term
What congressional solution resulted in Hayes winning the presidential election in 1876 and Reconstruction ending?
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Compromise of 1877
Term
What were the laws called passed in southern states after Reconstruction that stripped African Americans of basic right like voting?
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Jim Crow Laws
Term
What type of farming existed in the south after the war where farmers rented land to grow crops?
Definition
Tenant farming
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What type of farming existed in the south after the war where farmers were forced to share crops with landowners?
Definition
Sharecropping
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