What was General William Tecumseh Sherman’s strategy during his March to the Sea?
Total war, destroying infrastructure and resources to weaken the Confederacy.
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What role did sharecropping play in the post-Civil War South?
It created a cycle of poverty and economic dependency for freed African Americans and poor whites.
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Which senator famously debated Abraham Lincoln in 1858 and supported popular sovereignty?
Stephen A. Douglas.
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What was the significance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)?
It allowed territories to decide the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty, effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise.
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What event is considered the immediate cause of Southern secession?
The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
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What was the primary aim of the Emancipation Proclamation?
To free enslaved people in Confederate states and shift the war’s focus to abolition.
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What agreement led to the withdrawal of federal troops from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction?
The Compromise of 1877.
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How did the Homestead Act of 1862 encourage westward expansion?
It provided 160 acres of free land to settlers willing to develop it. - Unavailable to anyone who took up arms against the United States (Confederates)
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Which speech by Lincoln emphasized national unity and healing after the Civil War?
The Gettysburg Address.
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What were the Black Codes, and what did they aim to achieve?
Laws passed in Southern states to restrict the rights of freed African Americans and maintain a labor force.
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What concept justified U.S. territorial expansion in both Periods 4 and 5?
Manifest Destiny.
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Who led a violent raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 in an attempt to start a slave rebellion?
John Brown.
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What was the primary goal of the Republican Party when it was formed in the 1850s?
To prevent the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
