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civil war
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where did R.E surrender to Grant on April 9th,1865? | Appomattox Court House |
| The Civil War began in? | 1861 |
| What were the groups of people called that campaigned against slavery? | Abolitionists |
| Who was the president during the US civil war? | Abraham Lincoln |
| Who was Captain Henry Wirtz | The commander of the Andersonville Prison |
| Define Nullification | The act of cancelling something out. |
| A US senator from Georgia that became the vice president of the Confederate states of America. | Alexander Stephans |
| A loose union of independent states | Confederacy |
| Anaconda Plan | A union war strategy which included the blockade to "squeeze" the south |
| Bloodiest single day war in the Civil War | The battle of Antietam |
| Dred Scot | A slave that sued for his freedom. |
| First state to leave the Union in 1860 | South Carolina |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate states of America |
| Cotton | Number 1 cash crop of the south in the 1800's |
| Causes for the Civil War | Slavery, States rights, Sectionalism |
| A system that helped slaves get to freedom | Underground Railroad |
| The rights and powers held by individual states | States Rights |
| Conflict between the northern and southern states that ended up causing 620,000 deaths | Civil War |
| An agreement created by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state | Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
| Define secession | When 11 southern states left the Union |
| California joined the war as a free state and lands won from mexico were divided into two territories. | Compromise of 1850 |
| What was the 15th amendment | The amendment that led all former male slaves in the US the right to vote. |
| Define Sectionalism | The belief that your region is more important than the rest of the country. |
| General that came up with the "March to Sea Plan" | William T. Sherman |
| What was the purpose of the Anaconda plan | To cut off southern trade |
| Cotton Gin | Invention that lead to the Civil War |
| Led to the freedom of over four million slaves | Emancipation Proclamation |
| What did with the 13 amendment do | Abolished Slavery |
| What did the 14th amendment do | Granted everyone born on US soil a citizen |
| Who invented the cotton Gin | Eli whitney |
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