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civil war project
| Question | Answer |
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| ·Although the South reunited with the North, bitter feelings remained between the North and the South. · This was the costliest war it took thousands of human lives and destroying its surroundings. | |
| · 620,000 men were killed - North: 364,000 South: 256,000 - 37,000 African Americans were killed - Many died of sickness and disease due to the poor health conditions. | Slavery ended - 4,000,000 freed -freedom but nowhere to go: suffered from hunger and homelessness -Some stay on the plantations; others went north -left w/o shelter, clothes, jobs, and food -After war the Freedman’s Bureau:gave food & medical atten |
| - soldiers(South)their towns bad -gutted plantation houses and barns, uprooted railroad lines, & burned bridges,dead crops & livestock -south: military districts,reapply for admission -South economy bad; nation’s wealth was in the North. -Recon | ·Bleeding Kansas: Kansas-Nebraska Act popular sovereignty violence between slavery ·Mexican War: new territories were going to be admitted free/slave Uncle Tom’s Cabin: showed the evils of slavery to Northerners |
| Fugitive Slave Act (Comp of 1850): declared that any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a fine Election Lincoln: southerners angered b/c Repubs no slavery in new territories.11 states split from Union & made Confederacy. | ·Raid Harper Ferry: slave rebel led by John Brown in which 17 people set to raid arsenal & use it to capture town,failed & hanged for treason ·Dred Scott: tried since he wasnt in slave state should be free, Supreme Court: slaves property, not humans. |