What was the three-day battle with over 50,000 casualties that was the turning point of the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
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Who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic?
Julia Ward Howe
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What was the novel that was written which exposed the evils of slavery? Who wrote it?
Uncle Tom's Cabin; Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What principle of government refers to the idea that government gets its power from the people? This was the approach that people were going to use to determine if a new state would have slavery or not.
Popular Sovereignty
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What law required that northern states return escaped slaves to their owners?
Fugitive Slave Act
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In what year did Abraham Lincoln become president prompting South Carolina to secede?
1860
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What was the name of the secret organization that developed in the South after the Civil War to prohibit African-Americans from voting?
Ku Klux Klan
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What battle helped the Union gain control of the Mississippi River?
Battle of Vicksburg
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What Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were not citizens but rather property?
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
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What battle was the single bloodiest day in American History during the Civil War?
Battle of Antietam
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What event occurred when violence broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in Kansas?
Bleeding Kansas
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What does secede mean?
to formally withdraw
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What law stated that the territories of Kansas and Nebraska would be open to slavery if it was decided by the voters of those areas?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Who was the President of the Union during the Civil War?
