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36*30’ N latitude

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Boundary of slavery

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Antislavery Groups

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Brought freedom of enslaved people

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Popular sovereignty

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Allowing the people to decide

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“Bleeding Kansas”

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Fighting between pro-slavery and antislavery forces

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John Brown

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Violent abolitionist

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What unintended effect did the Fugitive Slave Act have on northerners?

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The enforcement of the law convinced more people the evils of slavery.

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Name the writer who encouraged people to break unjust laws in his essay “Civil Disobediance”

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Henry David Thoreau

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What was the name of the armed pro-slavery groups of Missourians who went to Kansas to vote?

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Border Ruffians

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What was the response of antislavery forces in Kansas after the new Kansas legislature passed pro-slavery laws?

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They armed theirselves, they held their own elections, and they adopted a constitution banning slavery

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What happened in the town of Lawrence, Kansas in May 1856?

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Slavery supporters attacked the town, soon after antislavery forces retaliated.

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Missouri

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Slave state

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Maine

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Free state

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Martin Van Buren

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Free-Soil party candidate

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Fugitives

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Runaway slaves

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Secede

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To leave the union

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In 1819 what was the balance in congress between slave states and free states?

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11 vs 11

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With the Missouri compromise what state was admitted to the union as a free state to preserve the balance of power?

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Maine

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What was the Wilmot Proviso?

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A proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico

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What was the slogan of the Free-Soil Party?

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“Free soil, free speech, free labor and free men”

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What compromise was made regarding slavery in Washington DC?

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The compromise of 1850- they banned the slave trade but slavery was still legal

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Dred Scott

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Sued for freedom

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Martyr

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A person who dies for a cause

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Arsenal

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Storage site for weapons

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Millard Fillmore

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1856 Know Nothing candidate

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Stephen A Douglas

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“The little giant”

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Which groups joined together in 1854 to form the Republican Party?

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The Whigs and democrats

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Who were the candidates for president in the election of 1856?

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James c Fremont, Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan

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For what reasons did Dred Scott claim he should be free?

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He lived in areas without slavery

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Who was the Chief Justice for the Dred Scott ruling?

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Chief Justice Roger B Taney

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What did John Brown hope to accomplish with his raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA?

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Start a revolt against slavery

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Abraham Lincoln

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Republican candidate

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Virginia

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One of the first states to secede

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John Breckinridge

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Candidate of southern democrats

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Fort Sumter surrender

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April 14, 1861

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How many candidates ran for president in the election of 1860?

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4

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How did Lincoln win the election when his name was not even on the ballot in some southern states?

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The north had more people than the south and outvoted the south

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What did southerners fear would result from the republican victory?

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Slave revolts

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What was the name of the new nation that was formed by the states that seceded from the union?

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The confederate states of America

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What event officially started the civil war?

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Jefferson Davis sent forces to attack Fort Sumter

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Richmond, VA

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Confederate capital

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Union’s first strategy…

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Blockade southern ports

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Export

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Sell to other countries

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Rebels

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Confederate soldiers

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Yankees

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Union soldiers

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Why was border state of MD vital to the union?

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If MD seceded the Union gov’t would be surrounded

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Which plan of the south’s was not a defensive strategy?

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To attack Washington DC

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The north’s war plan came from which hero of the war with Mexico?

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Winfield Scott

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Name the north’s plan to gain control of the Mississippi River

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Anaconda plan

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About 1 out of every 11 union soldiers ran away because of fear,hunger, or sickness. How many confederate soldiers ran away?

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1 out of every 8

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“Stonewall” Jackson

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Confederate general

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Merrimack

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Ironclad ship

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Casualties

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People killed or wounded

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Union general at Shiloh

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Ulysses S Grant

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Frederick Douglass

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Abolitionist orator

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Who was the union general who captured Fort Henry?

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David Farragut

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Why did the union want to control the Mississippi River and its tributaties?

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So they could prevent Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas from supplying the rest of the confederacy

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Which side won the battle of Shiloh?

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Union

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What constitutional right did Lincoln have to free enslaved African Americans in the south?

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Right to take property from an enemy in war time

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What was the emancipation proclamation?

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A document freeing all enslaved people in rebel territory- Jan 1 1863

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Inflation

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General increase in prices

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Rose O’Neal Greenhow

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Southern spy

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Mary Edwards Walker

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1st woman army surgeon

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Copperheads

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Peace Democrats

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Bounties

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Payments to increase enlistments

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What types of shortages did the south experience during the civil war?

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Food supplies, household items

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What were the 2 roles of women who were actively involved in the war?

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Nurses and spies

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Why was disease so common for soldiers on both sides of the fight?

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Soldiers were crowded together and drinking dirty water

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Who were the copperheads? What position did they take on the war?

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Peace democrats and they wanted the war to end and reunite the country

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Define integrate

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End separation of races

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Gettysburg Address

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272 words said by Lincoln

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Site of Pickett’s charge

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Entrenched

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In a protected position

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Surrender of Vicksburg

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Took place on July 4 1863

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54th Massachusetts

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African American regiment

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How did Stonewall Jackson die?

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One of the confederate companies fired on Jackson by mistake, he was wounded on left arm, one week later be died

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What was the last straw with President Lincoln regarding General McClellan?

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He failed to obey Lincoln’s order to follow confederate troops retreating from Antietam

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What was the Amnesty Act?

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It pardoned most former confederates and nearly all southerners could vote and hold office

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After Battle of Gettysburg what did Britain withhold from the south?

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Two ironclad ships

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How long did the siege of Vicksburg last?

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47 days

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13th Amendment

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Freed enslaved Americans

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Strategy

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action plan

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March to the Sea

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Trail of destruction

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Ulysses S Grant

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Commander of Union armies

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David Farragut

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Union navy hero

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Whose strategy was the total war in Atlanta?

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General William Sherman

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Why was Petersburg important to the confederacy and a prime target for the union?

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It was a railroad center that was Important for moving troops and supplies

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What helped Lincoln win reelection in 1864?

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Sherman’s capture of Atlanta

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What happened in Richmond after lee’s retreat at petersburg?

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Davis gathered documents, burned bridges and weapons and left Richmond VA

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What was reconstruction?

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The era after the civil war answering the questions about the south and newly freed slaves.

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