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What is an "abolitionist?"
An individual who worked to end the institution of slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
The philosophy that the people have the right to determine for themselves the nature of their own government.
To "secede" is to--
Leave the United States
Jefferson Davis was...
President of the Confederacy, Senator from Mississippi, and plantation owner
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson....
Famous for his leadership and dying by friendly fire
Jefferson Davis was...
President of the Confederacy
Ulysses S. Grant was...
Leader of the Union Army
Robert E. Lee was...
Leader of the Confederate army
William T. Sherman...
Known for Total War policy and March to the Sea
Abraham Lincoln was
President of the United States
George McClellan
Inept leader of Union army who was eventually fired
Clara Barton was most closely associated with--
Healthcare for soldiers during the Civil War.
T/F Lincoln believed secession was not permitted by the US Constitution
True
Abraham Lincoln once joked that the following person started the Civil War because of his/her writing.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Tariffs in the 19th century...
Southerners opposed tariffs because they believed tariffs would scare off foreign buyers of their goods and make the imported goods they needed more expensive.
T/F Most Civil War battles were fought in the North
False
