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Civil War Game
Civil War Review (5th grade)
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5th Grade
10/04/2010

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Who was the leader of the confederate soldiers?
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Robert E. Lee
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Name the general during the Civil War that later became a president.
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Ulyssess S. Grant
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What was the first battle of the Civil War?
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Fort Sumnter, South Carolina
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What year did the civil war start?
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1861
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When did the civil war end?
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1865
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Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the _________.
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slaves
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What is an abolitionist?
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People that speak out against slavery.
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Name the book that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in 1852.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Tubman was a famous conductor on the ______________.
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Underground Railroad
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John Brown was a white abolitionist that organized an attack in which he planned to give guns to slaves. Name were this happened.
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Harper's Ferry, Virginia
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What crops grew on many plantations in the south?
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rice, cotton, sugar
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Henry Clay a senator from Kentucky helped settle an argument between the northern and southern senators over slavery in the new western states. What was the name of his plan?
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The Missouri Compromise
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What was the Missouri Compromise?
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Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, Maine entered the Union as a free state and slavery was banned in all other territories in the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern border of Missouri.
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The Compromise of 1850 was led by what senators?
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Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas, and Daniel Webster
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California entered the Union as a _____ state under the Compromise of 1850?
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free
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New Mexico and Utah territories could decide whether to be free or slave states under which compromise?
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The compromise of 1850.
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How did the Fugitive Slave Act help slave owners?
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They were allowed to go after their slaves when they ran away to the north.
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A slave went to court and fought his master for freedom because he had lived in Illinois a free state. What was the name of the slave that fought at the Supreme Court for his freedom?
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Dred Scott
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What is a civil war?
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A war between people from the same nation.
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What does it mean to secede?
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Leave
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Who was the president of the Confederacy?
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Jefferson Davis
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What state was the first to secede from the Union as a result of Abraham Lincoln becoming president in 1860?
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South Carolina
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Name the four border states.
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Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and West Virginia
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Name 5 of the Confederate States.
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South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee
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Name 10 of the Union States.
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Oregon, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine
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What advantages did the North have during the Civil War?
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More people, more factories, navy and merchant marine, rail system larger than south, and held most of the money in banks.
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What advantages did the South have during the Civil War?
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Better military leaders, most of war fought on their land, more skilled horsemen and riflemen
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Who is the founder of the American Red Cross?
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Clara Barton
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Who was the Union leader that burned land from Atlanta to Savannah as a Christmas gift for Abraham Lincoln?
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William T. Sherman and it is known as the March to the Sea.
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Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?
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Appomattox Court House
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What major event happened on April 14, 1865?
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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What is the name of the speech that Abraham Lincoln gave to motivate the soldiers?
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The Gettysburg Address
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What is the 13th Amendment?
Definition
Freed the slaves
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What are the Jim Crow Laws/
Definition
Laws in the south that allowed segregation of blacks and whites.
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What is a sharecropper?
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Former slaves that lived on plantations and worked. They were paid with a share of crops.
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What laws were passed by southern states to keep former slaves from: voting, testifying against whites in court, serving on juries, and joining army forces?
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Black codes
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When did the civil war begin?
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1861
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