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| to prevent ships from entering or leaving ports |
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| fast steamers that slipped past Union warships to bring supplies to the blockaded South |
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| Plan of Northern General Winfield Scott that combined a blockade to close the Southern ports, controlling the Mississippi River to divide an eastern and western army to squeeze the Confederacy |
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| What did President Abraham Lincoln say to Harriet Beecher Stowe when he first met her? |
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| "So this is the little lady who wrote the book that made this great war." |
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| What was the most influential book written in the 1800s? |
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| What influence did "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have on the North? |
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| It made people care about abolishing slavery. |
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| Why was Harriet Tubman known as Moses? |
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| She led her people from bondage like Moses, who led the Jewish slaves out of Egypt in the Old Testament. |
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| After escaping from slavery, what did Harriet Tubman do? |
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| She returned south to lead her family and then over three hundred others to freedom. |
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| How did Harriet Tubman help the Union cause during the Civil War? |
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| She led slaves to freedom, acted as a scout and spy for the army, and served as a nurse in an army hospital. |
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| Why did the young Abraham Lincoln and his family move from Kentucky to Indiana? |
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| Because they were opposed to slavery, the Lincoln family moved from the slave state of Kentucky to Indiana, the closest free state. |
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| Why were the Lincoln-Douglas debates important to Lincoln's political career? |
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| Although Lincoln lost the election for senator, the debates made him well known across the nation. |
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| What did Lincoln mean when he said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand?" |
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| That if the Northern and Southern states separated, our nation would fall and the only democracy in the world would fail. |
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| As babies, what did Lincoln and Davis have in common? |
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| Both were born in log cabins in Kentucky. |
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| What was Jefferson Davis' opinion of slavery? |
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| Davis owned slaves and supported slavery and its extension into the western territories. |
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| What was Jefferson Davis' viewpoint on secession? |
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| Davis agreed with John Calhoun that states had the constitutional right to secede. |
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| What United States army officer captured John Brown? |
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| What happened to John Brown after he was captured at Harpers Ferry? |
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| He was tried, found guilty, and hanged. |
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| What prediction did John Brown write and give to his jailer before his execution? |
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| That the crime of slavery would only end by bloodshed (war). |
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| What was the purpose of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry? |
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| To capture the arsenal there, free and arm the slaves, and begin a slave revolt. |
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| What was at Harpers Ferry that John Brown needed? |
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| Guns in the government arsenal |
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| What three charges were brought against John Brown after his capture? |
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| Murder, conspiracy to incite slaves to riot, and treason against the state of Virginia. |
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| What problem would Lincoln have if Maryland left the Union? |
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| The Federal capital of Washington would be surrounded by Confederate Sates. |
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| What problem did Lincoln have at Fort Sumter? |
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| The Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter and began the Civil War. |
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| What problem did Lincoln have as soon as he was elected president of the United States? |
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| Seven southern states seceded from the United States and formed a new nation. |
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| What problem did President Davis have with England? |
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| The Confederacy wanted England to support its cause, but the English would not join a slave nation to fight a free nation. |
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| What problem did President Davis have with the confederation of southern states? |
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| In a confederation each state has more power than the national government, so Davis could not force the states to work together to fight the war. |
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| What problem did President Davis have because of his own personality? |
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| Davis was stubborn and irritable, and people did not enjoy working with him. |
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| Name the general who commanded the Confederate army in Virgina. |
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| Name the general who said, "Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy." |
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| General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
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| Name the general who was so calm and steady that he often whittled a stick during battle. |
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| Name the general who created the Anaconda Plan to squeeze the South. |
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| Name the general who transformed an army but was reluctant to send it into battle. |
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| General George B. McClellan |
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| Name the general who refused to retreat and just outlasted and out-killed the enemy. |
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| popular novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which told of Southern slavery and changed people's ideas about slavery; the first book that featured African Americans |
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| the everyday talk of a group of people, such as the slaves in the South |
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| the gentle and dignified slave who is the main character in Stowe's book; often used now as a derogatory term for an African American person who behaves submissively or humbly toward white people |
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| selling a slave to an owner who lived in the most southern slave states. |
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| network of people and houses organized to help escaped slaves reach freedom |
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| safe places on the Underground Railroad |
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| escaped slaves who traveled the route of the Underground Railroad |
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| people who led or helped escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad |
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| men paid a bounty to locate escaped slaves and return them to their owners |
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| system of beliefs about right and wrong |
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| author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", a novel that helped change people's ideas about slavery. |
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| Uncle Tom, Simon Legree, Little Eva, Topsy |
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| characters in the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
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| former slave who led other escaped slaves to freedom. Nicknamed "Moses" |
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| unjust or cruel use of power |
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| frontier war against Native Americans in which both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis fought |
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| an Illinois town where Lincoln lived as a young man |
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| tyranny or absolute power over others |
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| railroad speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the campaign for Illinois senator |
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| president of the United States during the Civil War |
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| President of the Confederate States during the Civil War |
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| Thomas & Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln |
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| Abraham Lincoln's parents |
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| Abraham Lincoln's stepmother |
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| President Zachary Taylor's daughter, who died of malaria three months after marrying Jefferson Davis |
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| Jefferson Davis' second wife |
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| person who dies for a belief |
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| lunatic or person who is mentally ill |
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| abolitionist who led an unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry to free the slaves |
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| army officer in charge of the United States troops that captured John Brown |
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| fighting over slavery by the proslavery and free soil settlers in the Kansas Territory, which began in 1856 |
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| site of a federal arsenal attacked by John Brown in an effort to arm slaves for an uprising |
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| social and economic system where a privileged class rules and owns all the land |
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| allies who are united in a league |
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| Confederate States of America or Confederacy |
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| the eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed their own country |
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| socially and politically prominent lady who wrote a diary expressing the Southern viewpoint during the Civil War |
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| States in the Confederacy (In order of secession) |
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| South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee |
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| Border States (Name them and definition) |
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| Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and Delaware; slave states that were geographically between the North and the South and undecided about joining the Confederacy |
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