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1
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where did the 49ers find gold on January 24, 1848

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Sutter’s Mill

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When did the 49ers get there

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got there in 1849

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How did the 49ers find the gold

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They panned for it

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a brassy yellow mineral, pyrite

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Fool’s gold

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Who wrote the Compromise of 1820

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Henry Clay

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Describe the Compromise of 1820

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Missouri went to a slave state and Maine went to a free state
Also called the Missouri/Maine Compromise
They had the 36 degrees/ 30 minutes

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What did Harriet B Stowe do

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She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin first come out

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First came out in pamphlet form and not in book form kinda like a tv series

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What was the book (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) about

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Talked about slaves in the south

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10
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How did they threaten the slaves

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They threaten them with Sail them down river (the hotter you got), splitting up families

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11
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What was 2 things that were illegal for the slaves

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It is illegal to teach a slave to read or write.

Illegal for slaves to marry

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most slaves did not have last names and so there was little record of any slaves

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Genealogy

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13
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How did the Slaves go to church

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went to church with their owners, owners sat in the bottom of the church and slaves sat in the balcony.

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14
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What came into effect during January 1863

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The Emancipation Proclamation

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What was The Emancipation Proclamation

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Ended slavery in the south

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16
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we would control the continent from east to west.

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Manifest Destiny

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17
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The north was scared of Texas

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Texas annexation

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18
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Texas was granted statehood when

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1845

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19
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tried to get their own independence from Mexico

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The Alamo

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home of the Alamo

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San Antonio, Texas

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21
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Who created the Boui knife

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John Boui

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22
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Who all died during the Alamo

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Everybody died at the Alamo

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23
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What was Texas’s battle cry and why

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Remember the Alamo; because they wanted to get revenge

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24
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First President of Texas

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Sam Houston

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25
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What famous Texan was known for wanting to get rid of slavery

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John Brown

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26
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He tried to steal a lot of weapons for the slaves

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John Brown

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27
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federal arsenal where they stored guns and things

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Harpers ferry

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28
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Who fired the first shots and where

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Fort Sumter and you don’t really know exactly

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29
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where they had to separate the slaves 1 and 1

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Bleeding Kansas

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30
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She was known from the Underground Railroad

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Harriet Tubman

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31
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stocks they made on the “Railroad”

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stations

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32
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She was a leader in the trail and things ; conductor

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Harriet Tubman

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33
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How did they (the slaves) know where they were on the Underground Railroad

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used the north star

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34
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She was also know from the underground railroad

She was also a conductor on the railroad HINT: THIS ONE IS NOT HARRIET TUBMAN

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Sojourner Truth

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35
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What were the slaves looking for and why. When did they start looking for them

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They always look for quakers because they took care of the slaves if they made it to Pennsylvania

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36
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Who wrote the Compromise of 1850

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Henry Clay

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37
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hunted the slaves that had escape for money

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Bounty hunters

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38
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Who was the 2 famous people killed in the Alamo

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Davy Crockett and John Boui

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39
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people who settled in the prairie

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Prairie Settlers

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40
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these people followed the buffalo wherever they went

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Nomads

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41
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What did the Settlers do to the Buffalo and why

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the settlers came in they killed all the buffalo because they were killing all their crops

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42
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What did railroad companies do to Buffalo and why

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killed the buffalo because they would get in the way of them on their way to somewhere else

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43
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was the nickname for the United States because we have so many people from different places

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The Melting Pot

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44
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Why did the Irish come to The US of A

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came because they ran out of potatoes.

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45
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Where did these people go? (Immigrants)

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They went to bigger cities to get jobs.
They couldn’t get the best jobs because a lot of people were ethnocentric.
They had to go to the dangerous jobs like coal mining.

46
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Why was coal mining dangerous

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It was dangerous because it was underground. At any moment the mine could calapspe and there is also not very good air

47
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What did the Immigrants have when they came

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When they got here they had the clothes on their back and maybe one more pair of clothes

48
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when you use anything around to build your house

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Substandard housing

49
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Was the main man in the steel industry

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Andrew Carnegie

50
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was a famous writer and had a lot of money

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Pursy Rose

51
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North advantages (Union)

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The North is industrial
Had a advantage with railroads to transport
Had bigger populations so there was more of them
North was cold- Home field advantage
Had trained soldiers

52
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South Advantages (Confederates)

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The South agricultural

South was hot- Home field advantage

53
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South Disadvantages

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South had farmers for soldiers
Wealthy people would send a second-which is a person they pay to fight for them in the war
Farmers weren’t wealthy enough to send anybody

54
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What was the purpose of the Civil War?

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to preserve the union

55
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What were the names of the War

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The Civil War
The war between state
war across five aprils

56
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How long was the war

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April 12, 1861- April 9, 1865

57
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How many States succeeded from the union?

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11

58
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Who were the first people to fire a shot?

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Many say the south by no one really knows

59
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Where was the first shots fired

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Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina

60
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What was Brooks/Sumner Caning and who were the men involved

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Preston Brooks (southern); Charles Sumner(northern)
Brooks started to beat Sumner with his cane, nearly to death.
61
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people who want to have a war (southerns)

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Fire Eaters

62
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extra tax you put on exported goods

A

Tarif

63
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if one person ignores the laws

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The Nullification Crisis

64
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Where was the South’s original capitol and where was it moved to

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The capital was in Montgomery, AL

Then Moved the Richmond, VA

65
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Declined the job to lead to union

Said if VA left so was he

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Robert E Lee

66
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Lee surrenders to Grant when and where

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April 1865

Appomattox Courthouse

67
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First major battle of the Civil War

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Manasus

68
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How where battles named

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after either the closes river or closest town

69
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How many people died in the war

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600,000 deaths during war

70
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When was Lincoln elected

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1860

71
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Where was Lincoln born and where did he grow up

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Born in Kentucky

Moved and grew up to Illinois

72
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What was his trade (job)

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A lawyer

73
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Where did Honest Abe come from

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When his wife spent over the $1,000 for the remodeling of the White House, he paid the debt out of his own pocket

74
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Who did he marry and how many kids did he have

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Mary Todd Lincoln

They had 4 kids and their family line ended

75
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What did the Union do w/ Robert E Lee after the war

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got his citizenship taken away

They also took down his house and made a cemetery out of his land because he caused all of their deaths

76
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What was Picket’s Hill

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Picket was ordered to go up a hill and it didn’t work out well.

77
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What was signification about the Battle of Gettysburg

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Largest death casualty in a battle

78
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Gettysburg Address

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Lincoln spoke for about 10 mins and wasn’t the main speaker

79
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Battle of Antietam

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Largest death casualty count in a day

80
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13th amendment

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Freed slaves

81
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14th amendment

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made them citizens

82
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15th amendment

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right to vote

83
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16th amendment

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income tax

84
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Andersonville Prison

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Said to be as hard as the Holocaust concentration camps

85
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Henry Wirz

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Was the only person to be charged with War crimes

86
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What was the Anaconda Plan

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the north tried to Mississippi river as a guideline

87
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Battle of Vicksburg

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If you had control of Vicksburg you got control of the Mississippi River

88
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Battle of Mobile Bay involved what forts

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Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines

89
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who was the commander for Mobile Bay

A

Farragut

90
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As the battle went on his would sit on his horse no matter what the war looked like

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Stonewall Jackson

91
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How did Stonewall died and where did he die

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He was shot by friendly fire

Died at the Battle of Chancellorsville

92
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What did Robert E Lee say after Stonewall die

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that he lost his right arm because he was that important

93
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Nathan Bedford

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first KKK grand wizard

94
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Who was Matthew Brady and how was he used

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Civil War photographer
Used for weapon
They also had hot air balloons
Spies

95
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Burned atlanta
Destroyed everything in his path
Also took away railroad tracks

A

Sherman

96
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Where John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln

A

Ford’s Therate

97
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What show were they watching

A

“Our American Cousin”

98
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Similarities between John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln

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Both shot
Both were born 100 years aparts
Both served in the senate
Lincoln’s secretary named Kennedy and Kennedy named Lincoln
Both had a VP named Johnson
Lincoln elected in 1860, Kennedy elected in 1960
Kennedy saw Marilyn Monroe and Lincoln went to Monroe, Maryland right before they died

99
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Fredrick Douglas

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was a freed slave

100
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was a confederate boat

Raphael Semmes was the captain

A

CSS ALABAMA

101
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Amistad Case
One of the lawyers on that case
Son of John Adams

A

John Q Adams

102
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PGT Beauregard (know his full name)
Southern confederate leader
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Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

103
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who was JEB Stuart

A

a southern

104
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Is the only president not buried on American soil because at the time he was buried Virginia was not apart of the United States

A

John Tyler

105
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All of the wagons were lined up and they look like trains

They had a leader at the top of the trains

A

Oregon Trail

106
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what did they do in the Oregon Trail if the indians attacked

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They circled the women and children

Indians used flaming arrows to take down the trains

107
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having bravery

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Counting coo

108
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Sherman’s March to the Sea

A

As he is going through the south he is burning everything in his path
Burning of atlanta was the biggest thing he burnt

109
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The little giant
He had a big speaking voice
Big politician
He said what you want to hear.

A

Stephen A Douglass

110
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Lincoln’s VP
Became president after Lincoln died
Lame duck president

A

Andrew Johnson

111
Q

George Gordon Meade

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Union commander

112
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Leaving the union

A

Secession

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