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What were the economic differences between the North and South?

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North industrialized, South agriculture

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What did the South heavily rely on?

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Agriculture and slave labor

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What led to conflicting views on tariffs?

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Different economic interests

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What was a key argument of the South?

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States’ rights

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What heightened tensions between North and South?

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Federal vs. state authority

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What was the central issue leading to sectional tensions?

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Slavery

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Which region largely opposed slavery?

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North

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Which region supported slavery for economic reasons?

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South

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What movement grew in the North advocating for the end of slavery?

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Abolitionist movement

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What did the Missouri Compromise attempt to balance?

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Free and slave states

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What was included in the Compromise of 1850 that angered Northerners?

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Fugitive Slave Act

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What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act allow?

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Territories decide on slavery

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What was the outcome of the Dred Scott Decision?

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No citizenship for African Americans

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What was John Brown’s Raid?

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Attempted armed slave revolt

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What triggered Southern states to secede in 1860?

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Election of Abraham Lincoln

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Which state first seceded after Lincoln’s election?

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South Carolina

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What did the seceding states form in 1861?

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Confederate States of America

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18
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Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?

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Abraham Lincoln

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19
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What proclamation did Lincoln issue?

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Who struggled to unify the South’s war effort?

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Jefferson Davis

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Who was the leading general of the Confederate Army?

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Robert E. Lee

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Who led the North to victory in the Civil War?

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Ulysses S. Grant

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What famous speech did Lincoln deliver?

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Gettysburg Address

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Who was William T. Sherman?

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Union general, March to the Sea

25
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What strategy did William T. Sherman implement?

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Total war strategy

26
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Who was Frederick Douglass?

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Abolitionist, former enslaved person

27
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What did Frederick Douglass advocate for?

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African American rights

28
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Who was Stonewall Jackson?

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Confederate general, tactical prowess

29
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When was Stonewall Jackson killed?

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1863

30
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What was the significance of Fort Sumter?

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First battle of the Civil War

31
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What occurred at the Battle of Antietam?

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Bloodiest single-day battle

32
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What did the Battle of Antietam lead to?

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Emancipation Proclamation

33
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What was the Battle of Gettysburg?

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Turning point for Union

34
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What was the significance of the Siege of Vicksburg?

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Control of Mississippi River

35
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What happened at Appomattox Court House?

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Lee surrendered to Grant

36
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation declare?

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Freedom for slaves

37
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Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

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Lincoln

38
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What was the Anaconda Plan?

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Union military strategy

39
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What did the Anaconda Plan aim to do?

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Blockade and crush Confederacy

40
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What did the 15th Amendment achieve?

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Voting rights for African American men

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What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 grant?

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Citizenship regardless of race

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What was the purpose of the Reconstruction Acts?

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Divide South and enforce 14th Amendment

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Who was Andrew Johnson?

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17th President, impeached

44
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Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?

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Opposing Radical Reconstruction

45
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Who was Thaddeus Stevens?

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Leader of Radical Republicans

46
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What were Black Codes?

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Laws restricting African Americans

47
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Who was Hiram Revels?

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First African American Senator

48
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What is the Ku Klux Klan?

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White supremacist group

49
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What were Sharecropping and Tenant Farming?

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Economic systems trapping in debt

50
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What event effectively ended Reconstruction?

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Compromise of 1877

51
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Who became president during the Compromise of 1877?

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Rutherford B. Hayes

52
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What laws rose as a result of the end of Reconstruction?

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Jim Crow laws

53
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What was a short-term consequence of Reconstruction?

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Advancements in civil rights

54
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What was a long-term consequence of Reconstruction?

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Centuries of segregation

55
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What did the legacy of Reconstruction set the stage for?

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Civil Rights Movement

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