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How did Southern leaders justify southern secession?

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By saying the north’s has unconstitutional state rights

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Why did John Brown lead an attack on Harper’s Ferry?

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Wanted to fight against slavery

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What law aroused great opposition and widespread disobedience in the North concerning runaway slaves?

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Fugitive slave law

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What is the belief that people living in a region should decide key issues?

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Popular sovereignty

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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Harriet beecher

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Who was the President of the Confederacy?

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Jefferson Finis Davis

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What is a draft?

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When the government requires MEN to serve in military

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Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

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To justify the deaths in war

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Where did the draft laws cause riots?

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New York City (also known as…THE BIG APPLE)

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Why did Lee want to take the war to the North?

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To relive pressure on Virginia

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Who practiced Total War?

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General William Sherman

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Why did the Southern states secede after the 1860 election?

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Lincoln was elected and his plan was to end slavery

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What was the 54th Massachusetts regiment?

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The first military unit consisting of black men

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What Union general was often criticized for his fighting strategies and removed from power TWICE?

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George McClellan

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What event triggered the fighting between the North and the South?

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Fort Sumter

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What battle was considered the turning point in the Civil War?

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Battle of Gettysburg

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What were passed to limit the freedoms of the former slaves in the South?

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Black codes

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What Amendment gave African Americans full citizenship?

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14th amendment

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What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?

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Allowed men of colored to vote

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What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?

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Abolish/ended slavery

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Why did the House of Representatives impeach Andrew Johnson?

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Broke ten year office act

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Who operated the schools to educate former slaves ?

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Freedmen’s bureau

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What did the compromise of 1877 do?

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Promised to remove soilders from the south if they promised to be good

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How was the law handled by vigilantes?

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By taking it (unlawfully) into their own hands

24
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What had happened when gold was discovered in the Black Hills?

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Caused a massive gold rush and attracted many folk seeking a fortune.(Erm what the sigma?!Why would you make it public you found gold…WHAT A FOOL)

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Why did U.S. soldiers kill Ghost Dancers in the Wounded Knee Massacre?

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Because they refused the to stand down

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Armed resistance of Native Americans to white settlement of their lands in the West ended with who’s arrest?

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Geronimo

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What were some of the problems miners encountered?

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Harsh living conditions and dangerous working conditions

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To force the Sioux back on the reservations, who did the government send?

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George Armstrong Custer

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What was the goals of labor unions?

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Better pay,better working conditions,and better benefits

30
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What was the Bessemer Process?

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Making steel

31
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Critics of powerful industrialists referred to Bessemer Process as…?

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Robber barons

32
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What is Social Darwinism?

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If your better than other people you’ll survive

33
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During the late 1800s, why did children often work in factories?

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Make money + CHEAP CHILD LABOR WAHOOO

34
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What is Ellis Island?

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One of the United States major immigration station

35
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What is angel island?

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Processing center for immigrants

36
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What are people who come into a country called?

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Immigrant (duh)

37
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What part of the nation did immigrants rarely settle?

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Country side (YEEHAW 🤠)

38
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Why were Chinese recruited to the United States?

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They were good workers for cheap

39
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What is a muckraker?

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Journalists who try’s uncover corruption and social problems

40
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What territories did the U.S.gain from Spain?

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Guam,puerto Rico ,Philippines,Hawaii

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Why was the U.S.S. Maine moved to Havana Harbor?

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It exploded 💥 AAAAAA KABOOM KABOOM 🤯

42
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In China the United States competed with other nations for what?

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Trade supplies

43
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What did the Platt Amendment call for?

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Protect cubas independence from foreign intervention

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Why was the building of the Panama Canal important?

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Made travel easier and faster for Central America

45
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What is imperialism?

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When countries take over countries to be more powerful (POWER 💪)

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How did the U.S. acquire Panama?

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Brought it off

47
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Who were the popular newspaper publishers printing stories about Cuban rebels?

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The yellow journalism

48
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Why did the U.S. annex Hawaii?

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Because they wanted to give them our culture and wanted their land/resources

49
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What ended Progressivism?

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Ww1

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What did most Progressives think government should do with workers and the poor?

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Help more with charity’s and financial help/aid

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