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What time period began in 1790 and was marked by a renewed interest in relgiion

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The second great awkening

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Which of the following was Not something that marked the 1790 era

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A return to strict adherence to church doctrine

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Which was a utopian community founded during the reform era

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Brooke Farm

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What was the name of the textbook that served as the reading book during this era

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McGuffey’s

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Which term means that the slaves are set free without payment to their masters

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Emancipation

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Which type of slave had the best chance to eventually buy their freedom

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Urban Slave

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Where did Nat Turner’s Rebellion take place

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Virginia

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What the term antebellum refer to regarding the Civil War

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Before the war

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What was the idea that a woman should remain in the home after marriage to take care of it and raise the children

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The cult of domesticity

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Why did women support the Temperance Movement

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It allowed them to be less susceptible to domestic violence

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Where was the women convention held that produced the document, the declaration of sentiments

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Seneca Falls, NY

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He wrote the appeal to the colored citizens of the world

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David Walker

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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Founded troy femal seminary

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Emma wilard

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A leader of the women movements

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Leading preacher of the religious movement

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Charles Grandison Finney

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The author of civil disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

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18
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The first women to graduate from a medical school

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elizabeth blackwell

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19
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Editor of the norths star

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Frederick Douglas

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HE was the author of Self Reliance

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Ralph Waldo emerson

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21
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HE was a clergymen that led the temperance movement

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Lyman Beecher

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22
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“He hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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23
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Led the reform of mental institutions and prisons

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Dorothea Dix

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Founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

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Mary Lyon

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25
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The author of walden

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Henry David Therau

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26
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The newspaper the liberator

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William Lloyd Garrison

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27
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A lady whore wore “pants”

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Amelia Bloomer

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“I stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master and ran off with them”

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Frederick Douglas

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The first superintendent of Massachusetts public schools

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Horace Mann

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Bough and sold goods rather than produce them in the homes and for their own use

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Market Revolution

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An economic system in which the means of production are controlled by private individuals and business ands them to earn a profit

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Capitlism

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32
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which is not a means of production

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New Inventions

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33
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A person that risks their own money in business

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Entrepenuer

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34
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What is another term for Conestoga wagon

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Prairie Schooner

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35
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The formal name for the Morman Church is

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints

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What was the border of texas, according to the state of texas

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The rio grande river

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37
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The election of 1844

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Dem- James k Polk

Whig- Henry Clay

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38
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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  • Mexico agreed to th Rio Grande as the border for Texas
  • ceded new mexico and california to usa
  • usa paid 15 mil for mexican cession
  • usa guranteed mexicans living in the eare: freedom of religon, protection of property, bilungual elections, and open borders
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39
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President during the Mexican war

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James K Polk

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40
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Won the battle of San Jacinto

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Sam Houston

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41
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Invented the steel plow

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John Deere

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42
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Invented the commercial sewing machine

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Isaac Singer

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43
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Led the mormons to salt lake

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Brigham Young

44
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Man with a big knife

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Jim Bowie

45
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Invented the mechanical reaper

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Cyris McCormick

46
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Invented stronger rubber

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Charles Goodyear

47
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Invented the telegraph

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Samuel F.B Morse

48
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Founder of the Mormons

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Joseph Smith

49
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Zachary Taylor

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“Old rough and ready”

50
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Winfield Scott

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“Old Fuss and feathers”

51
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Stephen Kearney

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“The long marcher”

52
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Santa ana

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“Leader of the mexican army”

53
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Davey Crockett

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“Defender at the alamo”

54
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Which section of the US was the most industrialized prior to the civil war

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North

55
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Which section of the US had the most miles of telegraph cable prior to the Civil War

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North

56
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Which section of the Us depended on rivers for travel and trade prior to the Civil War

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South

57
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Which section of the US had the larger population prior to the Civil War

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North

58
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Which statement is most true describing the Wilmot Proviso

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It was a rider attached to a military appropriations bill that slave slavery could not exist in any territory gained from mexico

59
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which was not part of the comprise of 1850

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Texas received 10 mill to settle its border dispute with Arizona

60
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Which man broke up the compromise of 1850 into five serrate parts and was bel to have each part pass the congress

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Stephen A Douglas

61
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What was the underground railroad

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it was a series of stations from which runaway slaves move at night in their trip to freedom

62
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Which one of the following repealed the missouri compromsie

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

63
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What english colony had the Powhatan indians as their main rival

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Virginia

64
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Which type of representation did the colonies say they had in parliament

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Virtual

65
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Who did not ride out to warn the people in the countryside that the “Regulars are coming, the regulars are coming”

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Joseph Warren

66
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Which one of the following was an action of the First Continenetal Congress

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It recognized the minutemen encamped outside of Boston as the Continental Army

67
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He developed the sons of liberty

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Samuel Adams

68
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“Give me liberty, or give me death”

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Patrick Henry

69
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HE was chancellor of the Briish Enchequer

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Charles Townshend

70
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He was the births officer in charge at the boston massacre

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thomas prescott

71
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He was the first man killed at the boston massacre

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Crispus Attucks

72
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He owned the ship Liberty that smuggled goods into boston

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John Hancock

73
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He uncovered the British move to take Concorde

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Joseph Warren

74
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British general that was placed in charge of boston

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Thomas Gage

75
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His political ideas were used in the Declaration of Independence

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John Locke

76
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He was in charge of the committee to write the Declaration of Independence

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Benjamin Franklin

77
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troops unfamiliar with the lay of the land

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british

78
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good military leaders

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american

79
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financing the war

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british

80
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home field advantage

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american

81
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support of native americans

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british

82
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a strong central government

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british

83
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an excellenet navy

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british

84
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a noble and true cause

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American

85
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He wrote The Southern Exposition of Protest

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John C Calhoun

86
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He developed the concept of interchangeable parts

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eli Whitney

87
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” The union, next to our liberty most dear”

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John C Calhoun

88
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Which was not a characteristic of the transcendentalism movement

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Emphaiss on an Elaborate lifestyle

89
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Which was not a slave code

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They could testify in court

90
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What was the total number of confederate states that seceded from the union

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11

91
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where were the first shots fired that began the civil war

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Fort Sumter

92
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What are the four border states

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Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky, Delware

93
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What slaves were set free by the emancipation proclomation

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Slaves in states that were still in a state of rebellion against the Union

94
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Who was the union general that was the commander in the west and won the battle at fort donelson

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Ulysses S Grant

95
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Which union general engineered the infamous “March to the Sea” and employed the concept of total war

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William Sherman

96
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Which battle was the bloodiest single day of the civil war

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Antietam

97
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What was president lincolns primary objective during the civil war

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To save the unon

98
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which is not true about habeas corpus

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it required the authorities to bring a person in jail to court and be charged with a crime

99
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What was a Copperhead during the Civil war

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It was a northern Democrat that advocated tpeace with the South during the civil war

100
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What southern men were exempt from the draft during the civil war

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Any planter with 20 or more slaves

101
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where did the march to the sea occur

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Atlanta to Savannah

102
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Where did Generla Lee surrender to Generla Grant

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Appomattox Courthouse

103
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which amount most closely represents the total number of dead during the civil war

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600,000

104
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What was the line said by john wilks booth

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sic semper tyrannis

105
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which amendment freed the slaves

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