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1
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Where was the Confederates final surrender

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The Appomattox courthouse

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LISTING: Why did the South lose?

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  • Lack of transportation
  • Lack of industry
  • Were not unified (thought of themselves of states first)
  • No help from Britain or France bc of slavery
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How many died in the civil war?

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  • 600,000 people
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What government was supreme after the Civil war? Federal or state?

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Federal

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What General led the 54th regimen?

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  • Shaw
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What regimen did Shaw lead?

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  • 54th
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When did the Republican Party begin? What did it start as?

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  • 1850s

- Abolitionist Party

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Who debated against Lincoln and put the Republicans on the map?

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Douglas

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What were the Lincoln / Douglas debates?

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  • US senate race in Illinois
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Douglas _______ his stance on _______ and _____ the democrats

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  • weakened
  • slavery
  • split
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Who won the Lincoln/Douglas debates?

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Douglas

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How many other people did Lincoln run against for president?

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4

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What year did Lincoln run?

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1860

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14
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What state was the first to succeed?

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South Carolina

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LISTING: Why wouldn’t the North let go?

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  • End of the US (only 75 years old)
  • Anarchy - cant prevent another state from leaving
  • Collapse and weakening of nation
  • Against the constitution
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Where does the Civil war begin?

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  • Fort Sumter, South Carolina
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LISTING: Border States

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  • Missouri
  • Kentucky
  • Delaware
  • Maryland
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18
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What was Lincoln cautious about?

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The emancipation of slaves

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19
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What did the North West Ordinance enforce

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North of the Ohio River = free states

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Missouri was a _____ state and Maine was a _____ state

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  • Missouri = slave

- Maine = free

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What two states entered during the Missouri compromise?

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  • Missouri and Maine
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Why was Texas entering the Union a problem

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Thought they would create multiple southern slave states from Texas - would throw off the balance of free and slave states

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What state entered during the Compromise of 1850?

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California

- free state

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What act made Kansas violent?

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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What did the Kansas Nebraska do?
Make Kansas violent
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Dred Scott Decision was a...
Lawsuit in which a slave was sued for freedom and denied
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Who beat up Charles Sumner? With what object?
- Preston Brooks | - Cane
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John Brown was a ______________, and was caught at __________, ________.
- radical abolitionist | - Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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What was Freeman's Bureau? When was it put into operation?
- Helped former slave and war refugees obtain food, medicine, and education - after the civil war
30
LISTING: Amendments 13-15
13 - Abolished slavery 14 - citizenship to African Americans 15 - Right to vote
31
The Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 divides the post Civil War South into how many military districts?
5
32
What is a carpetbagger?
A northern republican who moved to the South during Reconstruction to profit from unstable financial and political conditions
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What is a scalawag?
A southern white who became a republican during the reconstruction of the South to profit
34
What were the man jobs slaves had following the Civil war? (2)
- Sharecropper (grows crops on land owned by another - crops given as rent) - Tenant farmers (Farmer who pays cash for rental of land)
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LISTING: Slave stereotypes (5)
1. Sambo - happy go lucky 2. Nat - killer; blood thirsty 3. Jack - work well if treated well; manipulative upon opportunity 4. Mammy - sweet, nurturing, maid or nanny-like 5. Jezebel - sexual person, seducer, blamed for relationship w slave owners
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The 10% plan was Lincolns plan to _______.
Forgive
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10% plan (def)
10% of eligible voters had to take a loyalty oath
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Who were the main leaders of the radical republicans?
- Thaddeus Stevens | - Charles Sumner
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What was the radical republicans
- punish the south so severely that they will never try to leave again
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Date - assassination of Lincoln
April 14 1865
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Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Ford Theatre, Washington DC
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Who assassinated Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
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Profession of John Wilkes booth
Actor
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Lincolns assassination was...?
The only successful part of an attempted conspiracy
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Andrew Johnson was (3)
1. The VP before Lincoln died 2. Native of Tennessee 3. Not trusted by either side
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LISTING: Black Codes and Jim Crow laws (6)
- No jurors (BC) - No mixed race marriages (BC) - Vagrancy fine (BC) - poll tax (JC) - Literacy test (JC) - Property owner (JC)
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Which act finally ended reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877 effectively ended Reconstruction
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The Compromise of 1877 moved the focu of the nation towards ______.
- the west
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What compromise moved the focus of the nation towards the west?
The Compromise of 1877
50
Please v. Fergeson was a...
Decision that stated "separate bu equal" facilites were constitutional - the law until 1954
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Battle of Shiloh
- 2 day battle - Pittsburg Landing - 24,000 deaths - Confederates launched surprise attack on the union - Union won - Bloodiest battle of the Civil war
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George McClellan
- Head of Union army - did NOT get along with Lincoln - very cautious - Relieved of his duties half way through the civil war
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Battle of Gettysburg
- Most famous battle - Turning point of Civil War - July 1-3 in Pennsylvania - Helped union take the lead in war - South was undersupplied
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Antietam
- Maryland - Sept 17, 1862 - Bloodiest day in American history - McClellan was fired after the battle - Emancipation Proclamation was announced to the country bc Lincoln wanted to launch positive news
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Robert E Lee
- Prime commander in chief for the Confederacy
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Shermans March to the Sea
- Marched through Georgia - Goal was to devastate the South - Total war
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Ulyssess S. Grant
- General during the Mexican war - Later became president - mediocre - Died of throat cancer - Lincoln liked bc he got stuff done
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First battle of Bull Run
- Fought in Virginia - Beauregard and McDowell = commanders - The first major battle of the civil war - Led south to become over confident and North fearful of what was to come
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Stonewall Jackson
- Second most important general for the South - Negative for South when he was killed - shot by one of his own men which did damage to his arm - amputated it then died from infection - "stands there like a stone wall"

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