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Civil War
facts about the Civil War: ppl involved/ causes/effects/ battles...etc
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History
11th Grade
01/16/2011
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Name 5 causes of the Civil War
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-Northerners are outraged by Fugitive Slave Act

-Debate over slavery in the territories escalates

-South fears North will gain too much power in Congress

-Lincoln elected as President (upsets South)

-Southern states secede

-Confederates fire on Fort Sumter
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Name 5 effects of the Civil War
 Definition

-slavery abolished

-Federal gov. assumes supreme national authority

-both sides lose thousands of young men

-Northern economy booms (made so many guns,steel, RR tracks,etc)

-Southern economy is devastated

-Union reunited
Term
Name two famous Confederate generals
 Definition

Robert E. Lee

Jefferson Davis
Term
Name a famous Union general
 Definition
Ulysses S. Grant
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