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  • Why did Reconstruction fail?
    Lack of government funding, white Southerners resist change
  • How many years does "four score and seven" equal?
    87
  • T or F: The Fugitive Slave Act made it illegal for Southern plantation owners to hunt for their escaped slaves.
    F - It made it illegal for Northerners to help runaway slaves escape.
  • T or F: Slavery was banned in Washington, D.C. in the Compromise of 1850.
    F: The slave trade was stopped, but slavery was not banned all together.
  • Who became President of the US after Lincoln's assassination?
    Andrew Johnson
  • The imaginary line dividing free states from slave states is called the...
    Mason-Dixon Line
  • WHY is the Battle of Gettysburg considered the turning point of the war?
    The Southern army lost 3 out of every 4 men and was never able to recover from their losses. They could not plan large-scale attacks again.
  • Name one of the new technologies Lincoln used to help his army win the war.
    Telegraph or railroad
  • Which Amendment ended slavery in the U.S.?
    13th
  • What document did Lincoln create to free slaves in Confederate states?
    Emancipation Proclamation
  • What was the main purpose of Lincoln's Gettysburg address?
    To dedicate the battlefield as a final resting place for soldiers who fought on both sides. He told Americans to finish the fight and solve the conflict.
  • A war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields is called...
    Total War
  • Which Northern General led a march through the South, burning everything in his path?
    General Sherman
  • Which Supreme Court case declared that slaves did not have the same human rights as other citizens?
    Dred Scott case
  • General Ulysses S. Grant led the ___ army.
    Union
  • Where does General Lee surrender to General Grant?
    Appomattox Court House, Virginia
  • Pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters had a bloody fight to gain support in a new territory in which event?
    Bleeding Kansas
  • An abolitionist is...
    a person who wanted to end slavery.
  • List 3 problems of Civil War soldiers in their camps.
    Starvation, disease, hygiene, boredom...
  • Who led an attempted slave rebellion and became a martyr for the abolitionist cause?
    John Brown
  • What is popular sovereignty?
    States had the right to vote for whether or not they wanted to have slaves
  • States that allowed slavery but did NOT join the Southern states when they seceded were called
    Border States
  • T or F: The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in EVERY state in America.
    F - only in states rebelling against the Union. The other states were expected to free slaves on their own to set an example for the Southern states.
  • Where did the Civil War begin?
    Fort Sumter, SC
  • What was the period after the Civil War called?
    Reconstruction
  • After Lincoln's election in 1860, the Southern states _____, or left, the United States.
    seceded
  • Which side had more experienced military generals?
    South
  • What battle is the turning point of the CIvil War?
    Gettysburg
  • T or F: Lincoln's platform in the election of 1860 was to end slavery.
    F
  • Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • What was the Southern army called?
    Confederate
  • What was the Northern army called?
    Union
  • Being more loyal to one's own region of the country rather than to the whole country is called...
    Sectionalism
  • The CIvil War started when the ___ attacked the ___ at Fort Sumter
    South, North
  • General Robert E Lee led the ____ army.
    Confederate
  • The Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River was called the...
    Anaconda Plan
  • T or F: The North had more railroads, cities, and factories than the South.
    T
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