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Civil War

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    Civil War
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  • What is the immediate result of Lincoln being elected in 1860?
    South Carolina Secedes
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  • How did the harsh treatment of slaves affect Northerners?
    It made them join the abolitionist movement.
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  • What part of the Compromise of 1850 would the South favor?
    Fugitive Slave Act
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  • What shocking event took place soon after the Civil War ends?
    Lincoln is assassinated
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  • Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
    John Wilkes Booth
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  • What is primary economic activity in North?
    Factories, Manufacturing, Industry
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  • What is primary economic activity in South?
    Agricultural, plantations, cash crops, slavery
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  • What was the primary economic activity in the West?
    Mining
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  • What happened after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed?
    Bleeding Kansas (people fought over issue of slavery)
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  • What is Lincoln's view on secession?
    States cannot leave the Union
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  • What is the main cause of the Civil War?
    Slavery
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  • What battle initiates the Civil War?
    Ft. Sumter
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  • What did John Brown hope to accomplish?
    A slave revolt (rebellion)
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  • What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
    Freed slaves in Confederacy only
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  • Why was the Republican party founded?
    To stop the spread of slavery
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  • What was a result of the Dred Scott decision?
    Slavery could spread to all U.S. territories
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