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| What was "Radical Reconstruction?" |
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| Congress's plan to punish the rebelling southern states before allowing them to return to the Union with full rights following the United States Civil War. |
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| What was "Congressional Reconstruction?" |
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| Congress's plan to punish the rebelling southern states before allowing them to return to the Union with full rights following the United States Civil War. |
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| What was Congress's plan to punish the rebelling southern states before allowing them to return to the Union with full rights following the United States Civil War. |
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| Radical or Congressional Reconstruction |
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| What was "Presidential Reconstruction?" |
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| President Andrew Johnson's plan to punish readmit the southern states to the Union with full rights following the United States Civil War. |
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| What was President Andrew Johnson's plan to punish readmit the southern states to the Union with full rights following the United States Civil War. |
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| Presidential Reconstruction |
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| What invention made slavery profitable again? |
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| Who invented the Cotton Gin? |
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| Who invented "Interchangeable Parts?" |
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| Who was known as "Moses" for her heroic actions as a conductor on the "Underground Railroad?" |
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| What is a person called who is against slavery? |
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| Reconstruction Amendemnts (13,14,15) |
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| Which amendments to the United States Constitution were passes to protect the rights of formmer slaves? |
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| Which Supreme Court decision established that slaves were property and not people? |
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| Who was the chief justice of the Supreme Court that released the "Dred Scot" decision? |
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| Who was the sixteenth president? |
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| Who was president of the United States during the Civil War? |
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| Who assassinated (killed) President Abraham Lincoln? |
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| Who was the seventeenth president? |
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| When was the United States Civil War? |
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1. Slavery
2. States Rights |
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| What two reasons are generally given as the chief causes of the United States Civil War? |
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| Who was the president of the Confederate States of America? |
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| What is it called when a state voluntraily leaves a political union? |
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| What is it called when a state ignores a federal law inside its own boundaries? |
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| Who commanded the army of Northern Virginia in the United States Civil War? |
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| Who becmae president when Lincoln was assassinated? |
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| Slaves in the rebelling states only |
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| Who did the Emancipation Proclamation free? |
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| Where was the first shot of the Civil War fired? |
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| Who burned Atlanta in the U.S. Civil War? |
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| Where was the Peace Treaty signed that effectively ended the fighting in the U.S. Civil War? |
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| Who was the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin?" |
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| Missouri Compromise (1820) |
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| Which compromise admited Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. |
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This compromise called for:
1. California - free State
2. Nevada, Utah and New Mexico - Popular Sovereignty
3. Harsher fugitve slave law enforced |
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| Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) |
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| Stephen Douglas came up with this plan that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to enter the Union as Popular Sovereignty states. That is, they would be allowed to determine by popualr vote wether to be a slave of free state. |
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| Site of John Brown's 1859 slave revolt. |
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| Sometimes called the Battle of Bull Run. The Union army was defeated as they tried to quickly end the war by capturing the Confederate capital at Richmond. |
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| Also called the Battle of Antietam. Lee was forced to retreat back to Virginia in the single bloodiest day of the war. 6,000 soldiers were killed. |
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| This year was the turning point in the Civil War |
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| This pivotal Battle in July, 1863 marked the end of the Lee's ability to invade the North. 28,000 Americans died in thsi battle where the Union defeted the Confederacy. |
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| The last Confederate stronghold on the Missiissippi River. It was captured in July, 1863 by General Ulysses S. Grant. |
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| Union General who waged "total war" on the South. |
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| The Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia was captured by the Union army. |
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| Made former slaves full citizens of the United States. |
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| Guaranteed the right to vote to former slaves. |
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| Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty |
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| Stephen Douglas's doctrine that the population of a state or territory should vote on wether to be slave or free territory. |
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| Lincoln's First inaugural Address |
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| 1861 - This address made by President lincoln assured the SOuthern states that he would not interfere with slavery in the South, but that he would use force to "preserve the Union." |
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| 1863 - This brief two minute address stated that the purpose of the Civil War to ensure the survival of democracy. |
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| 1865 - This address focused on endeing the Civil War and healing the nation. |
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| Name given a snow ball fight in Boston that erupted into a small battle in which Crispus Attucks was killed. |
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| Placed a tax on common items such as playing cards, legal deeds and diplomas. |
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