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Which problem grew in the 1840's?
sectionalism
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Who was the Republican candidate of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
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Which Illinois senator proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglass
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Who's deeds increased sectionalism?
John Brown
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Who proposed the outlaw of slavery in the lands they earned from Mexico?
David Wilmott in the Wilmott Proviso
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Where did John Brown lead his raid?
on Harper Ferry's arsenal
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Which group was known for their clashes with the anti-slavery people in Kansas?
Border Ruffians
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What were runaway slaves called?
fugitives
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Which speech did Lincoln deliver saying that the nation couldn't be half free and half slave?
the House Divided
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Which decision stated that the Mississippi unconstitutional?
the Dred Scott Decision
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Which act applied popular sovereignty in the new territories?
the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Which book greatly influenced abolition, although it was not a true story?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Which law stated that all citizens must help catch fugitives?
the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
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Which agreement said that the New Mexico and Utah territories would decide on slavery with popular sovereignty?
the Compromise of 1850
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Which group wanted to stop slavery in the new territories?
the Free Soil Party
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Which agreement kept slave states equal?
the Missouri Compromise
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Why did John Brown attack Harper Ferry's arsenal?
to start a slave revolt
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Why was Abraham Lincoln able to win the election of 1860?
The Democratic party split in two, so their votes were also split.
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The election of 1860 led south to believe that...
they must secede.
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Why did Lincoln not immediately use force against the Confederacy?
because he wanted to keep the remaining slave states from seceding
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Which five slave states remained in the Union?
Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and West Virginia
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Who was the superintendent of nurses during the war?
Dorothea Dix
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Who was the Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln?
Edwin Stanton
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Who was the commander of the Confederate army?
Robert E. Lee
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Who led the Union army into Shenandoah Valley?
Philip Sheridan
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Who was the Confederate general who earned a nickname at the Battle of Bull Run?
Stonewall Jackson
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People who are not soldiers are...
civilians.
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In 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued what?
the Emancipation Proclamation
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In the North, protesters against the war were often denied their right of...
habeas corpus.
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What said that men 20-45 years old serve in the military?
the Draft
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The effect of printing paper money is...
inflation.
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After the Monitor vs. Merrimack, both sides realized that...
ironclad ships would make a big difference in the war.
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What was the North's greatest resource?
their industry
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Which side had more soldiers, factories, people, and railroads?
the North
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The invention of ____-______ _______ made the Civil War very deadly.
cone-shaped bullets
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The Emancipation Proclamation set what slaves free?
Confederate slaves
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Why did Abraham Lincoln have so much trouble finding good generals in the North?
because most were from the South
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How did the South plan to win the war?
by making the North tire of the war
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Who won the battle of Shiloh?
Ulysses S. Grant
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People from the North who moved into the South to earn money were called...
carpetbaggers.
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The Ten Percent Plan was proposed by who?
Abraham Lincoln
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Who won the popular vote in 1876 but did not win the election?
Samuel Tilden
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Who was the Mississippi Senate seat winner during Reconstruction?
Hiram Revels
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Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
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Who became Abraham Lincoln's successor after his death?
Andrew Johnson
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What limited the rights of freedmen?
the Black Codes
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The Senate voted to _______ President Andrew Johnson in 1868.
impeach
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What were Southern whites who supported Reconstruction called?
Scalawags
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After the Civil War, freedmen and poor whites became...
sharecroppers.
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Who was producing a smaller percentage of the United State's output in the 1900's compared with the 1860's?
the Southern industry
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Charles Sumner, Hiram Revels, and Thaddeus Stevens were all...
Radical Republicans
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What gave the freedmen the right to marry?
Black Codes
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To "strip the proud of their nobility and work them" was to suggest that....
the South should be punished by them giving their plantations to their former slaves
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Who was forbidden to be in the Reconstruction Governments?
former Confederate leaders
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What did the Thirteenth Amendment to?
abolish slavery
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Which group supplied food, clothing, and education?
the Freedmen's Bureau
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Which act stated that to rejoin the Union, a state must ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, and be enforced by the military?
the Reconstruction Act of 1867
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The political power of African Americans decreased after...
Reconstruction
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Why was the presidential election of 1876 important?
because it ended Reconstruction
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Were all the North's goals achieved by 1876?
no
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