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1
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What year did the Civil war Begin?

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1861

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2
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What were the causes of the civil war ( besides state secession )

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Economics, slavery, and patriotism

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3
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Which side had more leaders?

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The South

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4
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Which side had to invade the other side?

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The North

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5
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Which side had more resources?

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The North

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6
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Which side was more defensive?

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The South

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7
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Who was the most famous Southern general?

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Robert E. Lee

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In what battle did Lee drive the Union forces out of Virginia?

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Second Battle of Manassas

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What was the bloodiest battle in the war?

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Antietam

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10
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What was the British ship illegal stopped by the union?

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Trent

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11
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Where is the capital of the confederacy during the Civil war?

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Richmond, Virginia

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12
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How long did the original Union army contracts last?

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3 months

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13
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What battle made the North realize the war would not be over quickly?

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1st battle of Manassas

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14
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The Monitor(North) and Merrimack (South) were what kind of ships?

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Iron Clad Ships

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15
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What state was ravaged by General Sherman?

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Georgia

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16
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What speech was given by Abraham Lincoln to dedicate graveyard?

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Gettysburg Address

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17
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what were the Southern merchant ships that bought supplies to southern ports despite the northern blockades?

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blockade runners

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18
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What is the famous document that freed the slaves?

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Emancipation Proclamation

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19
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What was General Jackson’s nickname?

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Stonewall Jackson

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20
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Who suffered more on the home front during the war?

A

South

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21
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How many days after the Civil war was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?

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5 days

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22
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Who was the first black to serve in Congress?

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Hiram Revels

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23
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How many people died in the war?

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650,000

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24
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What was McClellan’s army called?

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The Army of the Potomac

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25
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What was the Anaconda Plan ( my anaconda don’t )

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To capture the Mississippi River and split to the confederacy in half

26
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Who was the North’s best general?

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Ulysses S.Grant

27
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What was the most extreme response to reconstruction

A

KKK

28
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What is the Term for national government’s intent to rebuild the south?

A

reconstruction

29
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executive officials that were protected by tenure of office act?

A

cabinet members

30
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What is the term for political official being indicted?

A

impeachment

31
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How many votes away was Johnson from being removed from office?

A

one

32
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What state was unconstitutionally admitted during the war?

A

West Virginia

33
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Which side suffered more casualties?

A

North

34
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The removal of the federal troops ended the mark of what?

A

reconstruction

35
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Where did Grant surrender to Lee?

A

no where because Lee surrendered to grand.

36
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Where did Lee surrender to Grant

A

appomattox court house in Virginia

37
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What was the most server depression in the first 100 years?

A

panic of 73

38
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What were the border states?

A

Slave states that didn’t secede

39
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List the border states

A

Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware

40
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Who led the march to the sea?

A

William Tecumseh Sherman

41
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Where did Lee surrender to Grant?

A

Appomattox

42
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When did Abraham Lincoln die?

A

April 14, 1865

43
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Who was Hiram Revels?

A

The first black congressman

44
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What was the first state to secede?

A

South Carolina?

45
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What did the court rule in Scott v. Sanford?

A

Blacks didn’t have the right to vote

46
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What was the North’s plan to slowly cut of the South’s ability to wage war?

A

the Anaconda plan

47
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What happened in “bleeding Kansas”

A

Sack of Lawrence, the Sumner brooks episode, and the Pottawatomie massacre

48
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Who had several debates with Lincoln?

A

Douglas

49
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Who came up with the “secret six” rebellion plan, and was later tried and hanged?

A

John Brown

50
Q

Who was the confederate president?

A

Jefferson Davis

51
Q

What were carpetbaggers and scalawags defined as?

A

Traitors

52
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What were carpetbaggers?

A

Northern radicals that moved south

53
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What were scalawags?

A

People that supported the carpetbaggers

54
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What did the 13th amendment do?

A

Prohibited slavery

55
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What did the 14th amendment do?

A

Gave full citizenship to freed slaves

56
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What did the 15th amendment do?

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Gave blacks the right to vote

57
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What was the compromise of 1877?

A

If Hayes was elected, then all of the troops would have to be removed from the South

58
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What did the Wade-Davis bill do?

A

It required military governors for each Southern state to pledge allegiance

59
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What was the Valley Campaign?

A

Stonewall Jackson and 15,000 men held off 50,000 Federal Troops in Virginia;s Shenandoah Valley

60
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What were southern supports in the North?

A

Copperheads

61
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What was Vicksburg?

A

important river port that brought supplies in and was very hard to attack due to its swap terrain.

62
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What was the major Charge that had many confederates under artillery fire and those who survived engaged in hand to hand combat?

A

Picket’s Charge

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