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Ch: 16 -- The Civil War
Civil War
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History
11th Grade
02/08/2010

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Who created the United States Sanitary Commission, and what was the purpose of the organization?
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What organization inspired the creation of the Sanitary commission?
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How did "Mother" Bickerdyke play a major role in the Civil War?
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What were the similarities between the North and South at the beginning of the Civil War?
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Where and when did the Civil War begin?
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Why did the war begin there?
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Why did Southerners enlist eagerly?
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What states left the Union during the first secession between December 1860 and Feb. 1, 1861?
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What states were referred to as the border states?
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Why was the border states' decision important?
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What were the two names for the first battle of the Civil War, which occurred in Virginia in July 1861?
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What were the North's advantages in the Civil War?
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What were the South's advantages in the Civil war?
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What was Lincoln's primary goal early on in the war?
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What controversial actions did Lincoln think were justified by military necessity?
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What were greenbacks?
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What economic development legislation did the Republicans pass during the Civil War?
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What Mexican victory, Which occurred on May 5, 1862, is celebrated as the Mexican national holiday: El Cinco de Mayo?
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Who kept the Laird ironclads from being delivered to the South?
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Why did Britain not intervene in the Civil War to preserve its cotton supply as the south expected?
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What were the Confederacy's self-imposed difficulties?
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What does the map of the major battles in the East in 1861-1862 show?
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What does the map of the major battles in the Interior in 1862-1863 show?
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What do the major battles of 1863 show?
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How was the North able to eventually gain control of the Mississippi River?
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What major events were part of the war in the Trans-Mississippi West?
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What attempts at suppressing Native Americans resulted from the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac?
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How did Union officer Benjamin Butler attract slaves to Union lines?
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What slaves were actually freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?
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What feminist leader advocated the 13th Amendment?
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What did the African-American come from who served in the Union Army?
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What resulted from blacks serving in the Union Army?
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What did black soldiers in the fifty-fourth Massachusetts do when they were denied the same pay as white soldiers?
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Why did more Americans die in the Civil War than in the first and second World Wars?
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To what did the high number of causalities in the Civil War lead?
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What women led the effort to organize nurses and cursing care?
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What political developments in the North took place after the war began?
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Why did social tensions rise in the North during the Civil War?
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What industries expanded during the Civil War?
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What developments during the Civil War foretold the postwar world?
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What did the New York Draft Riots reflect?
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What resulted from the Civil war in the South?
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Why did social tensions in the South deteriorate during the Civil War?
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What did the Confederacy face as the Civil War progressed?
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What did General Meade fail to do at the Battle of Gettysburg?
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How did Grant, as general-in-chief, follow a policy of total war?
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What was Grant's strategy of engaging the enemy and pressing forward effective?
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What did Jefferson Davis insist on at the peace conference at Hampton roads?
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What does the map of The Turning Point:1863 show?
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What does the map of Sherman's campaign in Georgia in 1864 show was the key to Sherman's success?
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What does the map of the final battles in Virgina in 1864-1865 show?
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